Photo by Fred Lucas for Corus Chess After 4 rounds, only 1 point separate all 14 players in group A. Even without Anand and Topalov, the action is still exciting. The young Dutch players Smeets and Stellwagen are holding...
Peaceful day for Corus A
Photo by Fred Lucas for Corus Chess Corus A S. Movsesian – L. Dominguez ½-½A. Morozevich – M. Adams ½-½J. Smeets – G. Kamsky ½-½Y. Wang – L. van Wely ½-½T. Radjabov – S. Karjakin ½-½D. Stellwagen – V....
Caruana 1-0 Navara at Corus
GM Caruana (2646) – GM Navara (2638) [C92]Corus B (4), 20.01.2009 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0–0 9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Ng5 Rf8 12.Nf3 Re8 13.Nbd2 Bf8 14.Bc2 g6...
LIVE wild things in Corus: So- 1/2 Gupta
Position after 22.Kh1 GM So (2627) – GM Gupta (2569) [C89]Corus C (4), 20.01.2009 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0–0 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1...
Corus round 4
Corus A M. Carlsen – L. AronianS. Movsesian – L. DominguezA. Morozevich – M. AdamsJ. Smeets – G. KamskyY. Wang – L. van WelyT. Radjabov – S. KarjakinD. Stellwagen – V. Ivanchuk Cours B F. Caruana – D. NavaraR....
Corus standings after 3 rounds
Corus A 1. S. Karjakin, G. Kamsky, J. Smeets, T. Radjabov, S. Movsesian 2.06. D. Stellwagen, M. Carlsen, L. Aronian, L. Dominguez 1½10. V. Ivanchuk, L. van Wely, M. Adams, A. Morozevich, Y. Wang 1.0 Corus B 1. N....
Back to the drawing board
After a brilliant win against 2700+ Sasikiran yesterday, Yifan faced a slight setback today with a loss against GM Reinderman. At this young age, you can expect to see many ups and downs from this talented young lady. This...
Sasikiran loses again
GM Sasikiran (2711) – GM Kasimdzhanov (2687) [D11]Corus B (3), 19.01.2009 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bg4 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Ng5 e6 8.f3 Bh5 9.e4 e5 10.Be3 Nb6 11.Qd3 Nfd7 12.d5 Bb4 13.dxc6 bxc6 14.h4 h6...
Radjabov takes down Ivanchuk with Black
This is Ivanchuk’s second loss in 3 games at Corus. He lost BOTH his games with the White pieces! GM Ivanchuk (2779) – GM Radjabov (2761) [E97]Corus A (3), 19.01.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2...
Kamsky’s masterpiece at Corus
GM Kamsky (2725) – GM Morozevich (2771) [C78]Corus A (3), 19.01.2009 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.c3 d6 8.a4 Rb8 9.axb5 axb5 10.d3 0–0 11.h3 Ne7 12.Na3 Ng6 13.Nc2 h6 14.Re1 Bb6...