Aviv on Chess – Players Profiles – GM Group Name: Alexander MorozevichDate of Birth: 18/07/1977Country: RussiaWorld Ranking: 2Rating: 2787 The Muscovite crowd-pleaser is making his return to Corus A after a 3-year hiatus – he finished next to last in 2005, with only 4.5/13. This time around he is back eyeing the other side of […]
Corus’ Stats
Number Of Tournament Victories Name 5 Anand, Viswanathan 4 Euwe, Max 4 Korchnoi, Viktor 4 Portisch, Lajos 3 Donner, Johannes 3 Geller, Efim 3 Kasparov, Garry 3 Nunn, John D.M. 2 Aronian, Levon 2 Karpov, Anatoly 2 Larsen, Bent 2 Nikolic, Predrag 2 Olafsson, Fridrik 2 Polugaevsky, Lev 2 Salov, Valery 2 Short, Nigel D. […]
The big one coming up
Top Grand Slam event is about to start Anand and Kramnik will not be present at this year’s Corus edition. Topalov will also skip the event. However, this year’s Corus will again be a top Grand Slam event with many high ranked players participating. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 07, 2009 – […]
Romanishin wins 13th Cultural Village
Oleg Romanishin has won he 13th Cultural Village Chess Tournament 28 November 2008 21:24 PM CET By Peter Doggers The Ukrainian veteran finished on 6.5/9, ahead of Vyacheslav Ikonnikov and Deepan Chakkravarthy. By winning, Romanishin qualified for Corus Grandmaster group C. The 13th Cultural Village Chess Tournament, formerly known as Sonnevanck Chess Tournament, took place […]
2009 Corus Super Tournament
News – Carlsen, Ivanchuk and Morozevich favourites in 71st Corus Chess TournamentNovember 6 2008 – Corus Chess Press 17-year-old Magnus Carlsen is one of the favourites to win the 71st edition of the Corus Chess Tournament, together with routiniers Alexander Morozevich and Vassily Ivanchuk. The Corus Chess Tournament will take place from Friday, January 16th […]
Super Corus Showdown
Here is the impressive field for the top group: GM Vladimir Kramnik 2799GM Viswanathan Anand 2799GM Veselin Topalov 2780GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov 2760GM Peter Leko 2753GM Vassily Ivanchuk 2751GM Levon Aronian 2739GM Boris Gelfand 2737GM Teymour Radjabov 2735GM Magnus Carlsen 2733GM Michael Adams 2726GM Judit Polgar 2707GM Pavel Eljanov 2692GM Loek van Wely 2681 Who do […]
Corus 2008
Corus (Wijk aan Zee 2008) A-Group Title – Name – Rating – World rank GM Viswanathan Anand 2801 1GM Vassily Ivanchuk 2787 2GM Vladimir Kramnik 2785 3GM Veselin Topalov 2769 4GM Peter Leko 2755 5GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov 2752 7GM Teymour Radjabov 2742 8GM Levon Aronian 2741 9GM Boris Gelfand 2736 11GM Michael Adams 2729 13GM […]