Photo by Fred Lucas for the official Corus website
Round 7 matchups:
Group A
| F. Caruana – V. Anand | |
| S. Tiviakov – P. Leko | |
| J. Smeets – L. Dominguez | |
| L. van Wely – S. Karjakin | |
| N. Short – V. Kramnik | |
| H. Nakamura – A. Shirov | |
| M. Carlsen – V. Ivanchuk |
Group B
| A. Giri – E. l’Ami | |
| D. Howell – T. Nyback | |
| A. Muzychuk – E. Sutovsky | |
| A. Naiditsch – Ni | |
| W. So – D. Reinderman | |
| V. Akobian – L. Nisipeanu | |
| P. Negi – P. Harikrishna |
Group C
| S. Kuipers – S. Swaminathan | |
| Z. Peng – M. Muzychuk | |
| B. Bok – R. Swinkels | |
| D. Vocaturo – R. Robson | |
| S. Plukkel – A. Gupta | |
| L. Chao – N. Grandelius | |
| R. van Kampen – K. Lie |
Official website: www.CorusChess.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Can Nakamura crush Shirov?
Yes, he can also be crushed. We’ll see.
Nakamura tore Shirov a new one. Brutal attacking game!!!!
Well, brutal, it was more a positional game over white squares, but anyway a convincing win of the young gun.