The winner and next champion?
You can follow the picks for the final winner of FIDE's KO world championship here. These predictions reflected the picks made before the event started.
Not surprisingly the heavy favorite was ... the heavy favorite - highly rated and popular Indian GM Anand.
Perhaps the most startling revelation of this table was the lack of faith in Alexei Shirov. I'm sure he would have been a very popular champion, but that didn't mean the public was willing to bet on him.
| FIDE KO 2000 Champion Predictions |
| Player |
Votes |
Status |
| Viswanathan Anand |
16 |
CHAMPION |
| Peter Leko |
5 |
ELIMINATED |
| Alexander Morozevich |
4 |
ELIMINATED |
| Michael Adams |
4 |
ELIMINATED |
| Joel Lautier |
3 |
ELIMINATED |
| Alexei Shirov |
1 |
ELIMINATED FINAL |
| Veselin Topalov |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Peter Svidler |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Boris Gelfand |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Vasily Ivanchuk |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Nigel Short |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Ruslan Ponomariov |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Jeroen Piket |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Vladimir Akopian |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Etienne Bacrot |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
| Alexander Chernin |
1 |
ELIMINATED |
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