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Defending champion |
Challenger | |||||
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 Garry Kasparov |
Vladimir Kramnik | |||||
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Born 13 April 1963 37 years old |
Born 25 June 1975 25 years old | |||||
| Winner of the 1995 Classical World Chess Championship |
Runner-up of 1998 Candidates Match (replacement for  Alexei Shirov) | |||||
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Rating: 2849 (World No. 1)[1] |
Rating: 2772 (World No. 3)[1] | |||||
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The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships,[2] was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000 in London, United Kingdom. Garry Kasparov, the defending champion, played Vladimir Kramnik. The match was played in a best-of-16-games format, with Kramnik defeating the heavily favoured Kasparov.[3] Kramnik won the match with two wins, 13 draws and no losses.[4] To the supporters of the lineal world championship, Kramnik became the 14th world chess champion.
- ^ a b "Top 100 Players – October 2000". Ratings.fide.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ Due to the sponsorship by Braingames, the match was known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships. Kramnik would later refer to the title as the "Classical" World Championship, hence this 2000 match was also a match for the "Classical" title.
- ^ The Week in Chess 308 Archived 15 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine 2 October 2000
- ^ The Week in Chess 313 Archived 15 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine 6 November 2000