Viswanathan Anand won the 2003 Corsica Masters in Bastia after a six-game final against Veselin Topalov. Four draws led to a blitz tiebreak, which Anand swept 2–0. All 50 games of the sixteen-player knockout survive in Mega2024.
A final decided at blitz speed
Anand reached the final by defeating Mišo Cebalo, Joël Lautier, and Alexander Grischuk. Topalov advanced past Alexander Motylev, Mikhail Gurevich, and Alexei Shirov. The finalists drew two rapid games and two accelerated games before Anand won both blitz games.
The complete Masters record
The sixteen-player Masters bracket produced 50 games across four knockout rounds. Mega2024 holds every result in ChessBase's contemporary Masters PGN, including the final tiebreaks. The separate Corsica Open is a different event and is outside this collection.
The 50 Mega2024 game records agree with the contemporary PGN on each game's date, bracket round, players, and result. Two scores differ only in their final recorded moves; this archive keeps the source movetext as it appears in Mega2024.
Result
This was a sixteen-player knockout, so aggregate game points do not form a meaningful all-player cross table. The archive includes all 50 Masters games, including the rapid, accelerated, and blitz tiebreaks.