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Corus 2008 - Three Grandmasters' tournaments will take place in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands from 12th to 27th of January, 2008. This year (2008) starts the Chess "Grand Slam". Corus 2008 chess tournament will be the 1st tournament, part of the Chess Grand Slam.

In the "A" GM group we will see 3 world chess champions - Anand, Kramnik and Topalov. In the last year (2007), the winners was 3 players - Topalov, Radjabov and Aronian. Kramnik was 4th, Anand - 5th. Now Anand is the world chess champion and we expect more fight than usual.

Corus 2008 chess tournament - participants:

Name	Year of birth	Rating	FIDE rank 10/2007
GM Viswanathan Anand	1969	2801	1
GM Vassily Ivanchuk	1969	2787	2
GM Vladimir Kramnik	1975	2785	3
GM Veselin Topalov	1975	2769	4
GM Peter Leko	1979	2755	5
GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov	1985	2752	7
GM Teymour Radjabov	1987	2742	8
GM Levon Aronian	1982	2741	9
GM Boris Gelfand	1968	2736	11
GM Michael Adams	1971	2729	13
GM Magnus Carlsen	1990	2714	17
GM Judit Polgar	1976	2708	20
GM Pavel Eljanov	1983	2681	30
GM Loek van Wely	1972	2680	32
Average rating: 2741
Category: 20

Official site: http://www.coruschess.com/

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The Chess Grand Slam 2008: Corus Wijk aan Zee (The Nederlands, January 11-27th), Linares (Spain, February 15th – March 9th), M-Tel Masters Sofia (Bulgaria, May 6-18th), Mexico City (June 21st – July 6th)
The Final Masters' tournament - Bilbao (Spain, September 15-27th).