Corus 2008 will be one of the strongest chess tournaments ever (no doubt!). The tournament will be held from 11-27 January 2008 in Wijk aan Zee. 11 from top 15 chess players from fide rating list (January 2008) will play in this tournament. The most popular (and strongest) are current World chess champion - Anand, former world chess champions - Kramnik and Topalov (also one of the winners in 2007), the other 2 winners in 2007 - Radjabov and Aronian, the best woman in the World - Judit Polgar and the best young chess player - Magnus Carlsen... Incredible Corus 2008 Chess Tournament...

This sounds crazy, but this tournament should be more interesting than World Chess Championship 2007 in Mexico. More fighters on the board than Mexico and no doubt many interesting moments coming soon...

The tournament is included in the so called Chess Grand Slam 2008. In the "B" group, the young Bulgarian player GM Ivan Cheparinov (2713) is the rating leader, followed by Bacrot, Sargissian, Harikrishna etc. In the "C" section are players between 2400-2600 (average 2504).

Program:
Date	Round
12th-15th Jan 2008	1-4
17th-20th Jan 2008	5-8
22nd-23rd Jan 2008	9-10
25th-27th Jan 2008	11-13

We will try to broadcast games LIVE in our LIVE chess games section (3 applets are available) or we will give you links to other sites with live commentary of the games! All participants in Chess Corus 2008 grandmaster group "A" and "B"...

Corus 2008 - "A" grandmaster group

Name		Country	Rating	Rating Position
GM	Viswanathan Anand	IND	2799	1-2
GM	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2799	1-2
GM	Veselin Topalov	BUL	2780	3
GM	Shakhryar Mamedyarov	AZE	2760	6
GM	Peter Leko	HUN	2753	8
GM	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2751	9
GM	Levon Aronian	ARM	2739	10
GM	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2737	11
GM	Teymour Radjabov	AZE	2735	12
GM	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2733	13
GM	Michael Adams	ENG	2726	15-16
GM	Judit Polgar	HUN	2707	22
GM	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2692	27
GM	Loek van Wely	NED	2681	35

Average rating: 2742
Category: 20

Corus 2008 - "B" grandmaster group

Name		Country	Rating
GM	Ivan Cheparinov	BUL	2713
GM	Etienne Bacrot	FRA	2700
GM	Sergey Movsesian	SLK	2677
GM	Gabriel Sargissian	ARM	2676
GM	Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2664
GM	Nigel Short	ENG	2645
GM	Michal Krasenkow	POL	2636
GM	Daniel Stellwagen	NED	2625
GM	Humpy Koneru	IND	2612
GM	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS	2600
GM	Erwin L’Ami	NED	2581
GM	Jan Smeets	NED	2573
WGM	Yifan Hou	CHI	2527
IM	Wouter Spoelman	NED	2424

Average rating: 2618
Category: 15

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