Corus 2008 - Chess Elite in Wijk aan Zee - 11 players from FIDE Top 15
Date 2008/1/4 | Topic: Chess news
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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/
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