The winner of the representative chess tournament that ended in Sofia was the host of the competition, Veselin Topalov. In the last round, the Bulgarian defeated the Russian Vladimir Kramnik. The Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov drew with the Englishman Michael Adams, and the Indian Viswanathan Anand with the Hungarian Judit Polgar.
Thus, Topalov scored 6.5 points. Anand finished second with 5.5. Ponomariov and Polgar shared third and fourth places, with 5 points each. Kramnik and Adams scored 4 points each.