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World Chess Championship
FIDE Knockout Tournaments
Statistics

Events

Year Site Players Games Xtbl
1997/98 Groningen 97 323 Xtbl
1997/98 Lausanne 2 8 Xtbl
1999 Las Vegas 100 305 Xtbl
2000 New Delhi/Tehran 100 345 Xtbl
2001 Moscow (excl. rd.7) 128 401 Xtbl

Number of players who competed in 1, 2, 3, & 4 events

No.Events Players
4 25
3 29
2 45
1 147

Most active players

Player Games
Adams,M 81
Khalifman,A 70
Anand,V 69
Shirov,A 67
Gelfand,B 56
Dreev,A 50
Svidler,P 50
Ehlvest,J 49
Tkachiev,V 44
Lautier,J 42

Individual results

Player W +W-L=D B +W-L=D Score Games Pct
Magem Badals,J W +2-0=2 B +2-1=1 5.5 8 68.75%
Pigusov,E W +2-0=1 B +1-1=1 4.0 6 66.67%
Serper,G W +2-0=1 B +1-1=1 4.0 6 66.67%
Anand,V W +17-4=14 B +7-2=25 43.5 69 63.04%
Aronian,L W +1-0=1 B +1-1=0 2.5 4 62.50%
Fridman,D W +1-0=1 B +1-1=0 2.5 4 62.50%
Galkin,A W +1-0=1 B +1-1=0 2.5 4 62.50%
Bareev,E W +11-2=7 B +7-6=7 25.0 40 62.50%
Ye Jiangchuan W +1-0=5 B +3-1=2 7.5 12 62.50%
Vladimirov,E W +1-0=3 B +2-1=1 5.0 8 62.50%

Most of the players with the best records have played less than 12 games.

Of the 72 players with more than 11 games

Player W +W-L=D B +W-L=D Score Games Pct
Anand,V W +17-4=14 B +7-2=25 43.5 69 63.04%
Bareev,E W +11-2=7 B +7-6=7 25.0 40 62.50%
Ye Jiangchuan W +1-0=5 B +3-1=2 7.5 12 62.50%
Morozevich,A W +6-1=3 B +3-3=4 12.5 20 62.50%
Adams,M W +16-4=20 B +11-3=27 50.5 81 62.35%
Ivanchuk,V W +8-1=8 B +4-3=10 21.0 34 61.76%
Ponomariov,R W +8-1=6 B +4-4=7 18.5 30 61.67%
Van Wely,L W +5-3=5 B +5-1=7 16.0 26 61.54%
Gelfand,B W +9-2=17 B +9-5=14 33.5 56 59.82%
Grischuk,A W +7-0=6 B +1-3=9 15.5 26 59.62%

Of the 25 players who have played in all four events.

Player W +W-L=D B +W-L=D Score Games Pct
Bareev,E W +11-2=7 B +7-6=7 25.0 40 62.50%
Adams,M W +16-4=20 B +11-3=27 50.5 81 62.35%
Ivanchuk,V W +8-1=8 B +4-3=10 21.0 34 61.76%
Gelfand,B W +9-2=17 B +9-5=14 33.5 56 59.82%
Khalifman,A W +16-2=17 B +5-7=23 41.0 70 58.57%
Shirov,A W +17-3=13 B +7-10=17 39.0 67 58.21%
Tkachiev,V W +8-3=11 B +5-3=14 25.5 44 57.95%
Georgiev,K W +7-2=7 B +4-4=8 18.5 32 57.81%
Topalov,V W +11-2=7 B +4-7=8 22.5 39 57.69%
Short,N W +6-1=11 B +5-5=7 20.0 35 57.14%
[...]
Beliavsky,A W +4-3=6 B +2-4=7 12.5 26 48.08%
Benjamin,J W +2-2=6 B +2-4=6 10.0 22 45.45%
Yermolinsky,A W +5-4=5 B +1-5=7 12.0 27 44.44%
Barua,D W +2-2=3 B +0-6=2 4.5 15 30.00%
Hamdouchi,H W +0-4=1 B +0-3=2 1.5 10 15.00%

Most active

Player W +W-L=D B +W-L=D Score Games Pct
Anand,V W +17-4=14 B +7-2=25 43.5 69 63.04%
Adams,M W +16-4=20 B +11-3=27 50.5 81 62.35%
Gelfand,B W +9-2=17 B +9-5=14 33.5 56 59.82%
Khalifman,A W +16-2=17 B +5-7=23 41.0 70 58.57%
Shirov,A W +17-3=13 B +7-10=17 39.0 67 58.21%
Tkachiev,V W +8-3=11 B +5-3=14 25.5 44 57.95%
Svidler,P W +10-3=12 B +5-5=15 28.5 50 57.00%
Dreev,A W +11-4=10 B +6-6=13 28.5 50 57.00%
Lautier,J W +5-4=12 B +7-3=11 23.5 42 55.95%
Ehlvest,J W +8-2=15 B +3-5=16 26.5 49 54.08%

The rivalries

1st Player 2nd Player Games
Adams,M Svidler,P 16
Adams,M Anand,V 13
Gelfand,B Lautier,J 12
Anand,V Khalifman,A 12
Krasenkow,M Macieja,B 10

Index of statistics


World Chess Championship Index.
WCC Index