GM Aronian (2739) – GM Topalov (2780) [E61]12.01.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.Bf4 0–0 9.e3 h6 10.h4 Bg4 11.Rc1 e5 12.dxe5 Qe7 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.Qxd5 Nb4 15.Qc4 Be6 16.Qxc7...
Radjabov 1-0 Anand
GM Radjabov (2735) – GM Anand (2799) [D43]12.01.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0–0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bd6 a6 14.Re1 Bf8 15.Bg3 Bg7 16.Bd6...
Mamedyarov 0-1 Carlsen
GM Mamedyarov (2760) – GM Carlsen (2733) [B30]12.01.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 Bg4 7.h3 Bxf3 8.Qxf3 Nf6 9.d3 0–0 10.Qd1 Nd7 11.f4 c4 12.dxc4 Na5 13.Nd5 Nxc4 14.c3 Ndb6 15.Qe2 Rc8 16.Kh2...
The stars have arrived
A picture of the Corus opening ceremony by Frits Agterdenbos of www.chessvista.com Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Corus Group B and C
Section B Round 1 – Saturday the 12th P. Harikrishna – N. ShortY. Hou – E. BacrotD. Stellwagen – M. KrasenkowW. Spoelman – I. CheparinovS. Movsesian – G. SargissianJ. Smeets – H. KoneruI. Nepomniachtchi – E. L’Ami Section C...
Interesting round 1 matchups in Corus
The most interest matchups in the first round are: Kramnik vs his second in Mexico City van Wely, Radjabov vs Anand, Mamedyarov vs Carlsen, Aronian vs. Topalov and Ivanchuk vs. Judit. Round 1 – Saturday the 12th V. Kramnik...
Countdown to Corus
Picture by Frits Agterdenbos of http://www.chessvista.com/ Corus Chess history: http://www.coruschess.com/players.php Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Corus Group C
Participants grandmaster group C Name Country Rating GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2598GM Friso Nijboer NED 2578IM Arik Braun GER 2536GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2533GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2526GM Efstratios Grivas GRE 2509GM Shilong Li CHI 2502GM Pontus Carlsson SWE...
Corus Veterans
Participants honorary group Name Country Rating GM Viktor Kortchnoi SUI 2605 BiographyGM Jan Timman NED 2561 BiographyGM Ljubomir Ljubojevic SRB 2543 BiographyGM Lajos Portisch HUN 2530 Biography Average rating: 2560 Category: 13 Official website: http://www.coruschess.com/ Chess Daily News from...
Corus B Showdown
Cheparinov is definitely strong enough to be in the super A group. So is Bacrot. Nigel Short has been in the A a number of times before. But they are in the B group this year along with 2...