Selection of about 900 fully annotated games from all the important tournaments and matches played from February till May 2001
Including tournaments in Linares, Astana, Merida, Sarajevo, Russia (ch) etc. Of 25 first players from the July 1st 2001 FIDE Rating list, 19 annotate their games in the volume 81 (Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Morozevich, Adams, Leko, Bareev, Shirov, Kasimdzhanov, Gelfand, Smirin, Georgiev, Van Wely, Karpov, Dreev, J. Polgar, Ponomariov, Lautier and Grischuk).