The Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee will take place from January 12 to 28, 2007.
The A & B groups have been announced.
A Group:
Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Teymour Radjabov, Alexei Shirov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Tiviakov, Loek van Wely, Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Motylev
Who will be the favorite to win the A group?
Here is the official website.
B Group:
Dmitry Jakovenko, Bu Xiangzhi, Gabriel Sargissian, Pavel Eljanov, Friso Nijboer, Erwin L’Ami, Suat Atalik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Daniel Stellwagen, Jan Werle, Vladimir Georgiev, Jan Smeets, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Tatiana Kosintseva
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Do they will adopt Sofia Rules??
Kramnik at Zee? What a nice surprise! Hope he doesn’t pull again his medical certificates. But if he participates, it will make the tournament very interesting indeed.
Are they playing behind a glass wall?
Who is Vladimir Georgiev? Do you mean Kiril Georgiev?
Why isn’t Gata Kamsky in any of these strong tournaments? He’s rated higher than many of the other players…
anyone have an idea? Susan?
Oh, no, Judit not here either. Wished to see her name.
is there any known reason why Peter Leko does not participate?
my favorites are Topalov and Aronjan – Kramnik will take Corus as preparation for the FIDE WC – tournament in Mexico – i do not expect a crowning achievment of the reignin’ chess world champion in Wijk.
Leko is not in Wijk because he bored everyone last time there.
I miss Ivantchuk, but I guess he didn’t have his best year.
Gata Kamsky would be nice to see there. I guess they had to kick some out because
1. Kramnik is back
2. Carlsen+Motylev won Corus group B and very automatically invited to play group A next time.
So that is three new participants. Some had to make place.
I think one of the big shots will win it, and I hope Carlsen will be at least +1
Antonov, ti ako ne znaesh koi e Vladko Georgiev zashto vuobshte si se hvanal da pishesh tuk?!
Sus zdrave
N.:)
The Big 3 that’s nice! I hope we won’t see Kramnik forfeiting his games against Topalov, though I wouldn’t blame him at all.
Naistina ne znam koy e Vladko Georgiev. A pisha, zashtoto ti, koyto znaesh vsichko, ne pishesh.