(648) FIDE TOP 100 PLAYERS OF JULY 2003

MORE than 10 years ago, I was able to print a copy from www.fide.com of top 100 players in the world in the FIDE players' list.

It's interesting to recall the top 12: 1. Gary Kasparov 2. Vladimir Kramnik 3. Viswanathan Anand 4. Peter Leko 5. Veselin Topalov 6. Alexander Grischuk 7. Alexei Shirov 8. Peter Svidler 9. Evgeny Bareev 10. Michael Adams 11. Judit Polgar, who is still listed as wg (or Woman Grandmaster) but after her name, a big GM is written. Which means that she is listed at number 11 as GM in the men division.
   At 12. is Ruslan Ponomariov.
   Born in 1951, former world champion Anatoly Karpov is listed at 21st but 20 years older is Viktor Korchnoi, whom the former had defeated in the World Chess Championship in Baguio City, Philippines.