Photo by Fred Lucas for the official Corus website
Round 8 results:
Group A
| V. Anand – V. Ivanchuk | ½-½ |
| A. Shirov – M. Carlsen | ½-½ |
| V. Kramnik – H. Nakamura | 1-0 |
| S. Karjakin – N. Short | 1-0 |
| L. Dominguez – L. van Wely | ½-½ |
| P. Leko – J. Smeets | 1-0 |
| F. Caruana – S. Tiviakov | 1-0 |
Group B
| E. l’Ami – P. Harikrishna | |
| L. Nisipeanu – P. Negi | ½-½ |
| D. Reinderman – V. Akobian | 1-0 |
| Ni – W. So | ½-½ |
| E. Sutovsky – A. Naiditsch | ½-½ |
| T. Nyback – A. Muzychuk | ½-½ |
| A. Giri – D. Howell | 1-0 |
Group C
| S. Swaminathan – K. Lie | ½-½ |
| N. Grandelius – R. van Kampen | 1-0 |
| A. Gupta – L. Chao | ½-½ |
| R. Robson – S. Plukkel | ½-½ |
| R. Swinkels – D. Vocaturo | ½-½ |
| M. Muzychuk – B. Bok | ½-½ |
| S. Kuipers – Z. Peng | 0-1 |
Official website: www.CorusChess.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Kramknik is gradually climbing towards no1 again, no matter what other people suggested.