FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 - Participants

Participants

All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

  1. Vladimir Kramnik1 (RUS), 2770
  2. Viswanathan Anand (IND), 2765
  3. Anatoly Karpov (RUS), 2745
  4. Veselin Topalov (BUL), 2745
  5. Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), 2725
  6. Alexander Beliavsky (SLO), 2710
  7. Alexei Shirov (ESP), 2700
  8. Boris Gelfand (BLR), 2695
  9. Michael Adams (ENG), 2680
  10. Valery Salov (RUS), 2680
  11. Yevgeny Bareev (RUS), 2670
  12. Kiril Georgiev (BUL), 2670
  13. Judit Polgár (HUN), 2670
  14. Matthew Sadler (ENG), 2665
  15. Vladimir Akopian (ARM), 2660
  16. Aleksej Alexandrov (BLR), 2660
  17. Joël Lautier (FRA), 2660
  18. Nigel Short (ENG), 2660
  19. Peter Svidler (RUS), 2660
  20. Alexander Khalifman (RUS), 2655
  21. Loek van Wely (NED), 2655
  22. Zurab Azmaiparashvili (GEO), 2650
  23. Sergei Rublevsky (RUS), 2650
  24. Alex Yermolinsky (USA), 2650
  25. Michal Krasenkov (POL), 2645
  26. Lembit Oll (EST), 2645
  27. Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU), 2645
  28. Ulf Andersson (SWE), 2640
  29. Alexander Chernin (HUN), 2640
  30. Alexey Dreev (RUS), 2640
  31. Rafael Vaganian (ARM), 2640
  32. Arthur Yussupov (GER), 2640
  33. Peter Leko (HUN), 2635
  34. Vadim Milov (SUI), 2635
  35. Ivan Sokolov (BIH), 2635
  36. Vadim Zvjaginsev (RUS), 2635
  37. Predrag Nikolić (BIH), 2630
  38. Jeroen Piket (NED), 2630
  39. Yasser Seirawan (USA), 2630
  40. Giorgy Giorgadze (GEO), 2625
  41. Julio Granda (PER), 2625
  42. Jan Timman (NED), 2625
  43. Zoltán Almási (HUN), 2615
  44. Boris Alterman (ISR), 2615
  45. Vladimir Malaniuk (UKR), 2615
  46. Vladislav Tkachiev (KAZ), 2615
  47. Utut Adianto (INA), 2610
  48. Jaan Ehlvest (EST), 2610
  49. Viktor Korchnoi (SUI), 2610
  50. Lajos Portisch (HUN), 2610
  1. Jóhann Hjartarson (ISL), 2605
  2. Zbyněk Hráček (CZE), 2605
  3. Friso Nijboer (NED), 2605
  4. Curt Hansen (DEN), 2600
  5. Grigory Kaidanov (USA), 2600
  6. Ivan Morovic (CHI), 2600
  7. Gilberto Milos (BRA), 2590
  8. Alexander Morozevich (RUS), 2590
  9. Emil Sutovsky (ISR), 2590
  10. Sergei Tiviakov (RUS), 2590
  11. Viktor Bologan (MDA), 2585
  12. Miguel Illescas (ESP), 2585
  13. Vasilios Kotronias (GRE), 2585
  14. Alexander Nenashev (RUS), 2585
  15. Andrei Sokolov (RUS), 2585
  16. Joel Benjamin (USA), 2580
  17. Boris Gulko (USA), 2580
  18. Kevin Spraggett (CAN), 2575
  19. Vladimir Epishin (RUS), 2570
  20. Stefan Kindermann (GER), 2570
  21. Konstantin Lerner (UKR), 2560
  22. Margeir Petursson (ISL), 2555
  23. Paul van der Sterren (NED), 2555
  24. Larry Christiansen (USA), 2550
  25. Andrei Istrăţescu (ROM), 2550
  26. Roman Slobodjan (GER), 2550
  27. Ashot Anastasian (ARM), 2545
  28. Étienne Bacrot (FRA), 2545
  29. Bojan Kurajica (BIH), 2545
  30. Alexander Fominyh (RUS), 2535
  31. Hichem Hamdouchi (MAR), 2535
  32. Peng Xiaomin (CHN), 2530
  33. Peter Wells (ENG), 2530
  34. Gilberto Hernandez (MEX), 2525
  35. Thomas Luther (GER), 2525
  36. John van der Wiel (NED), 2525
  37. Wang Zili (CHN), 2520
  38. Dibyendu Barua (IND), 2515
  39. Sarunas Sulskis (LTU), 2510
  40. Igor Glek (RUS), 2505
  41. Igor Miladinović (GRE), 2500
  42. Tal Shaked (USA), 2500, IM
  43. Niaz Murshed (BAN), 2490
  44. Gildardo Garcia (COL), 2480
  45. Vasily Smyslov (RUS), 2480
  46. Helgi Gretarsson (ISL), 2475
  47. Esam Mohammed2 (EGY), 2460, IM
  48. Hendrik Hoeksema (NED), 2400, IM
  49. Watu Kobese (RSA), 2315, IM
  50. Alexander Umgaev (RUS), unrated, no title

1 Kramnik (ranked 2nd in the world) declined participation on the grounds that Karpov's direct entry into the final was unacceptable.

2 Mohammed did not appear.

Garry Kasparov (ranked 1st in the world), Gata Kamsky (ranked 7th), and Zsuzsa Polgar (Women's world champion) declined participation in advance.

Karpov as defending FIDE champion was seeded directly into the championship match. Of the 97 remaining participants, 68 entered the tournament in the first round, 28 in the second round and 1 (Gelfand, the winner of the previous Interzonal) in the third round.

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