1997 in chess


Events in chess in 1997:

Top players

top 10 players by Elo rating - January 1997
  1. Garry Kasparov 2795
  2. Viswanathan Anand 2765
  3. Anatoly Karpov 2760
  4. Vladimir Kramnik 2740
  5. Vassily Ivanchuk 2740
  6. Veselin Topalov 2725
  7. Gata Kamsky 2720
  8. Boris Gelfand 2700
  9. Alexei Shirov 2690
  10. Nigel Short 2690

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