World Chess Championship cycle 1995-1998

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
	host city			year			result				PGN
	Lausanne			1998	Karpov, Anatoly		5 - 3
					Anand, Viswanathan

KNOCK-OUT
	host city			year	qualified to WCh match		system	players	games	PGN
	Groningen			1997	Anand, Viswanathan		K/O	97	323
					Karpov, Anatoly		Incumbent World Champion

ZONALS
no.	host city			year	qualified to knock-out		system	players	games	PGN
1.1	Linares			1995	Illescas Córdoba, Miguel Van Wely, Loek Van der Wiel, John Van der Sterren, Paul Wells, Peter		S-11+p/o	38	209+21
1.2a	Ptuj			1995	Kindermann, Stefan Kortschnoj, Viktor Luther, Thomas		RR	16	120
1.2b	Struga			1995	Azmaiparashvili, Zurab Alterman, Boris Kurajica, Bojan		RR	11	55
1.3	Reykjavik			1995	Hansen, Curt Pétursson, Margeir Hjartarson, Jóhann		S-11+p/o	20	110+15
1.4	Odorheiu Secuiesc			1995	Hráček, Zbyněk Almási, Zoltán Istrățescu, Andrei		S-9+p/o	26	117+6
1.5	Ankara			1995	Giorgadze, Giorgi Kotronias, Vasilios Anastasian, Ashot		S-9	24	108
1.6	Elista			1995	Svidler, Peter Bareev, Evgeny Khalifman, Alexander Glek, Igor Sokolov, Andrei Fominykh, Alexander		S-11	70	382
1.7	Riga			1995	Oll, Lembit Ehlvest, Jaan Šulskis, Šarūnas		RR	14	91
1.8	Mykolaiv			1995	Lerner, Konstantin Malaniuk, Volodymyr Kruppa, Yury		S-11	34	181
2.1	Key West, FL			1994	Gulko, Boris Seirawan, Yasser Christiansen, Larry Benjamin, Joel Yermolinsky, Alex		RR	14	91
2.2	Hamilton			1994	Spraggett, Kevin		RR	16	120
2.3	San Salvador			1995	Hernández Guerrero, Gilberto García, Gildardo		S-9	18	81
2.4	São Paulo			1995	Granda Zuñiga, Julio Milos, Gilberto		S-9	14	63
2.5	Santiago de Chile			1995	Morovic Fernández, Iván		RR	14	91
3.1	Madras			1995	Barua, Dibyendu Murshed, Niaz		S-11	22	121
3.2	Genting Highlands			1995	Utut Adianto		S-11	28	154
3.3	Beijing			1995	Wang Zili Peng Xiaomin		S-11	34	~187
3.4					Nenashev, Alexander
4.1					Hamdouchi, Hichem
4.2					Mohamed, Esam Ahmed Nagib
4.3	Gaborone			1995	Kobese, Watu		RR	12	66
					Karpov, Anatloy Kasparov, Garry		FIDE and PCA World Champions
					Kamsky, Gata		Loser of 1996 FIDE World Championship match
					Gelfand, Boris Anand, Wiswanathan Salov, Valery Kramnik, Vladimir Timman, Jan		Players to reach round 2 in recent 1994/95 Candidates matches
					Adams, Michael Bareev, Evgeny Beliavsky, Alexander Dreev, Alexander Epishin, Vladimir Ivanchuk, Vasyl Kaidanov, Gregory Khalifman, Alexander Lautier, Joël Nikolić, Predrag Piket, Jeroen Polgár, Judit Shirov, Alexei Short, Nigel Sokolov, Ivan Tiviakov, Sergei Topalov, Vladimir Jussupow, Artur Vaganian, Rafael		Each of players to be in the top 14 on FIDE rating list 1994-1996.
					Miladinovic, Igor Grétarsson, Helgi Áss Slobodjan, Roman Sutovsky, Emil Shaked, Tal		World Junior U20 Champions from years 1993 to 1997.
					Lékó, Péter Morozevich, Alexander		Juniors U20 qualified by having Elo rating at least 2600 in July '97 list.
					Polgár, Zsuzsa		Women's World Chess Champion.
					Smyslov, Vassily Ichikawa, Taisuke Umgaev, Alexander		FIDE President's nominees
					Hoeksema, Hendrik		One player from host federation.
					Akopian Vladimir Alexandrov, Alexei Andersson, Ulf Bacrot, Etienne Bologan, Viorel Csernyin, Alexander Georgiev, Kiril Krasenkow, Michał Milov, Vadim Nijboer, Friso Portisch, Lajos Rozentalis, Eduardas Rublevsky, Sergei Sadler, Matthew Tkachiev, Vladimir Zviagintsev, Vadim		Highest rated players from 1997 Elo lists to add up number of players to 99

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