The 71st Corus Chess tournament will be held from 16 January – 1 February 2009 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland.

Group A


GM

Vassily Ivanchuk

UKR

2779

GM

Magnus Carlsen

NOR

2776

GM

Alexander Morozevich

RUS

2771

GM

Teymour Radjabov

AZE

2761

GM

Sergei Movsesian

SVK

2751

GM

Levon Aronian

ARM

2750

GM

Wang Yue

CHN

2739

GM

Gata Kamsky

USA

2725

GM

Leinier Dominguez

CUB

2717

GM

Michael Adams

ENG

2712

GM

Sergei Karjakin

UKR

2706

GM

Loek van Wely

NED

2625

GM

Daniel Stellwagen

NED

2612

GM

Jan Smeets

NED

2601

Group B


GM

Krishnan Sasikiran

IND

2711

GM

Francisco Vallejo Pons

ESP

2702

GM

Zahar Efimenko

UKR

2688

GM

Rustam Kasimdzhanov

UZB

2687

GM

Alexander Motylev

RUS

2676

GM

Andrei Volokitin

UKR

2671

GM

Nigel Short

ENG

2663

GM

Fabiano Caruana

ITA

2646

GM

David Navara

CZE

2638

GM

Jan Werle

NED

2607

GM

Erwin l’Ami

NED

2603

GM

Hou Yifan

CHN

2571

GM

Henrique Mecking

BRA

2567

GM

Dimitri Reinderman

NED

2549

Corus C


GM

Wesley So

PHI

2627

GM

David Howell

ENG

2622

GM

Tiger Hillarp Persson

SWE

2586

GM

Abhijeet Gupta

IND

2569

GM

Friso Nijboer

NED

2560

GM

Manuel Leon Hoyos

MEX

2542

GM

Oleg Romanishin

UKR

2533

GM

Eduardo Iturrizaga

VEN

2528

GM

Frank Holzke

GER

2524

WGM

Dronavalli Harika

IND

2473

FM

Anish Giri

RUS

2469

IM

Roeland Pruijssers

NED

2444

IM

Manuel Bosboom

NED

2418

IM

Ali Bitalzadeh

NED

2400

www.coruschess.com and http://tournaments.chessdom.com/corus-2009-live

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