Sergey Karjakin won 2009's Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee (Holland). Played with black pieces in the last round of the event he beat Leinier Perez Dominguez. Norvegian Magnus Carlsen lost his final.
Nigel Short who was close to the trophy in group-B event lost against the real winner USA-born Italian Fabiano Caruana.
Wesley So confirmed his victory in the C-Group by a quick draw.

Corus A Wijk aan Zee (NED) - Group A Final Standings
Rk.	Name	FED	Pts.	ELO
1.	Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	8	2803
2.	Aronian, Levon	ARM	7Ѕ	2770
3.	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	7Ѕ	2769
4.	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	7Ѕ	2770
5.	Карлсен, Magnus	NOR	7	2740
6.	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	7	2745
7.	Kamsky, Gata	USA	6Ѕ	2715
8.	Van Wely, Loek	NED	6	2694
9.	Wang Yue	CHN	6	2685
10.	Smeets, Jan	NED	6	2695
11.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	5Ѕ	2654
12.	Stellwagen, Daniлl	NED	5Ѕ	2667
13.	Adams, Michael	ENG	5Ѕ	2659
14.	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	5Ѕ	2654

GM Gata Kamsky who will play against Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov in FIDE Pretender Match (Feb 2009, Sofia), won against Alexander Morozevitch in Corus 2009 Round 3. American join leaders with 2/3 points. In the other not finished on a draw game today Azery Tejmur Radjabov beat Vassily Ivanchuk.

Round 4 games:
S. Movsesian - L. Dominguez
A. Morozevich - M. Adams
J. Smeets - G. Kamsky
Y. Wang - L. van Wely
T. Radjabov - S. Karjakin
D. Stellwagen - V. Ivanchuk
M. Carlsen - L. Aronian

There are game translations in our Live Chess Games Section!

The Chess tournament Corus 2009, part of the Chess grand slam is taking place in Wijk aan Zee from 17th January to 1st February 2009. Live chess games are available in our Live chess games section.

Corus 2009 - Results round 1

D. Stellwagen - S. Movsesian	Ѕ-Ѕ
M. Carlsen - T. Radjabov	Ѕ-Ѕ
L. Aronian - W. Yue	Ѕ-Ѕ
V. Ivanchuk - J. Smeets	0-1
S. Karjakin - A. Morozevich	1-0
L. van Wely - L. Dominguez	Ѕ-Ѕ
G. Kamsky - M. Adams	Ѕ-Ѕ

Became traditional chess festival "Corus 2009" will be held in Wijk aan Zee (Holland) between 16th January and 1st February.
This year edition is not so strong as previous ones because of missing many leader GMs: The World Chess Champion Vishwanatan Anand (India), ex-World champions - Bulgarian Veselin Topalov (current highest FIDE ELO-rated player) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia). But... Chess is not only 3 players - there are many new talents... Here their chance is!
3 Grandmaster tournaments partisipants:

The 8th International Chess Festival "Aeroflot Open 2009" will be held in Moscow, Russia, from 16 February (arrival day) to 27 February 2009 (departure day).
This major event is open to chess players of most varied qualification: from unrated to having a very high rating. As before, the festival is held “under the wings” of our leading air company – Aeroflot. For the fourth year running the festival will take place in the major tourist complex “Izmailovo” - hotel “Gamma – Delta”, where the participants of the previous festivals so liked to stay and to play. This time the festival has the largest prize fund in the entire history of Aeroflot Open Festival - EUR 180 000 (taking into account the prizes for the World Blitz Qualification Tournament).
The festival consists of four tournaments - nine rounds swiss each.

Official site:

Veselin Topalov beat Svidler in the penultimate round in Nanjing 2008 and he won Pearl Spring 2008. Others games was drawn.

Nanjing 2008 - Standings after round 9
1	Topalov	6,5
2-3	Aronian	5
	Bu Xiangzhi	5
4	Svidler	4
5	Movsesian	3,5
6	Ivanchuk	3

Pearl Spring Chess Tournament takes place in Nanjing, China, 11th-21st December 2008. After the first 6 rounds two players tied the leader position. They are current the highest FIDE ELO-ranked player - Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov and the strongest Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi. They played against each other today and finished on a draw. Bu may have missed an opportunity for more when he had a rook vs. Topalov's bishop. Next round Friday. Standings after round 7 and pairings round 8...

The latest Grand Prix tournament this year takes place in Elista, Kalmikia, 13th-29th December 2008. There have been a number of withdrawals due to FIDE's change of regulations, like Michael Adams and Levon Aronian's denials, but the event is still a very reasonable category 19. There is play on Christmas day!

After the first 5 rounds there two leaders - two azerbaijanian GMs - Vugar Gashimov and Teimur Radjabov. They both have 3,5/5 points. Standings after round 5, pairings round 6, official site...

Armenia (men) and China (women) won Chess Olympiad in Dresden (Germany).
Final team ranking:

Armenia won against France at Chess Olympiad in Dresden by 3,5 to 0.5. The only draw in this match was between Etien Bacrot and Levon Aronian at table 1.
The strongest team of Germany lost against Israel.
The team of Russia won against USA by 2.5 to 1.5 points.
The highest ELO rated player - Veselin Topalov also won his game but it wasnt enought for Bulgaria to win against Belarus.
All results: