So crushes Dutch foe, keeps 2nd spot at Corus Chess tourney01/29/2009 02:00 PM MANILA, Philippines – Top seed Grandmaster Wesley So maintained his second spot position in the Corus Chess 2009 after defeating Roeland Pruijssers of The Netherlands in...
Aronian, Short, Tiger lead Corus groups
Standings after 10 rounds: Corus A 1. L. Aronian 6½2. S. Karjakin 63. M. Carlsen, L. Dominguez, T. Radjabov, S. Movsesian 5½7. L. van Wely, J. Smeets 59. V. Ivanchuk, G. Kamsky, M. Adams, Y. Wang 4½13. D. Stellwagen...
Corus round 10 results
Corus A S. Movsesian – Y. Wang ½-½T. Radjabov – J. Smeets ½-½D. Stellwagen – A. Morozevich ½-½M. Carlsen – L. Dominguez 1-0L. Aronian – M. Adams 1-0V. Ivanchuk – G. Kamsky ½-½S. Karjakin – L. van Wely ½-½...
Aronian wins again
GM Aronian (2750) – GM Adams (2712) [E04]Corus A (10), 28.01.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.Bg2 Nc6 6.Qa4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 Nd5 8.Bxb4 Ndxb4 9.Nc3 a6 10.Ne5 0–0 11.Nxc6 Nxc6 12.Bxc6 bxc6 13.Qxc4 Rb8 14.b3 Qd6...
Magnus finally scores one
GM Carlsen (2776) – GM Dominguez (2717) [D81]Corus A – Round 10, 28.01.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Qb3 dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bg7 6.e4 0–0 7.Be2 Nfd7 8.Be3 Nb6 9.Qd3 f5 10.Rd1 f4 11.Bc1 e5 12.d5 c6 13.Nf3 cxd5...
Corus round 10 matchups
Corus round 10 matchups: Corus A S. Movsesian – Y. WangT. Radjabov – J. SmeetsD. Stellwagen – A. MorozevichM. Carlsen – L. DominguezL. Aronian – M. AdamsV. Ivanchuk – G. KamskyS. Karjakin – L. van Wely Corus B R....
A brilliant tactical game
GM Navara – GM SasikiranCorus Chess 2009 Wijk aan Zee (9), 2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 g6 5.d3 Bg7 6.f4 Rb8 7.Nf3 b5 8.a3 e6 9.Be3 Nge7 10.d4 b4 11.axb4 Rxb4 12.dxc5 d5 13.exd5 exd5 14.Ne5...
Kamsky 0-1 Aronian
GM Kamsky – GM AronianCorus Chess 2009 Wijk aan Zee (9), 2009 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0–0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 h6 10.b3 a5 11.a4 Be6 12.Ne2 Bd5 13.Rd1 Kc8 14.Ne1...
Indian performance
Abhijeet wins, Sasikiran loses again in Corus Chess From Our Chess Correspondent ]Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands)Jan 28 (PTI) On a mixed day for the Indians, world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta came back into reckoning for top honours with...
Corus tight leaderboards after 9
Here are the standings after 9 rounds: Corus A 1. L. Aronian, S. Karjakin, L. Dominguez 5½4. T. Radjabov, S. Movsesian 56. M. Carlsen, L. van Wely, M. Adams, J. Smeets 4½10. V. Ivanchuk, G. Kamsky, Y. Wang 413....