from the article "Indian Grandmaster, Viswanathan Anand who defeated V. Bologan, S. Lputian, B. Macieja, defending champion A. Khalifman, M. Adams, to finally face-off against Lithuanian-born Alexey Shirov in the finals. "
neither kramnik,topalov,kasparov,karpov etc took part in the tournament. It was a weakened tournament
