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Overview of the events of 1997 in chess
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Below is a list of events in chess in 1997, as well as the top ten FIDE rated chess players at the start of that year.

Top players

FIDE top 10 players by Elo rating - January 1997

  1. Garry Kasparov  Russia 2795
  2. Viswanathan Anand  India 2765
  3. Anatoly Karpov  Russia 2760
  4. Vladimir Kramnik  Russia 2740
  5. Vassily Ivanchuk  Ukraine 2740
  6. Veselin Topalov  Bulgaria 2725
  7. Gata Kamsky  United States 2720
  8. Boris Gelfand  Belarus 2700
  9. Alexei Shirov  Spain 2690
  10. Nigel Short  England 2690

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