Corus 2007 updated

Jan 13, 01:16 PM

The traditional Corus Chess Tournament will take place in Wijk aan Zee, January 12-28. The A group is traditionally strong. There will be 6 players from the top ten and the average ELO is 2723.

The A-group has 3 players younger than the age of 20 (Karjakin, Carlsen and Radjabov) and the player with highest ELO, Veselin Topalov.

Here is a complete list of the participants:

Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2783)
Viswanathan Anand (India, 2779)
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2766)
Peter Svidler (Russia, 2728)
David Navara (Czech Republic, 2719)
Levon Aronian (Armenië, 2744)
Teymour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2729)
Alexey Shirov (Spain, 2715)
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 2723)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2690)
Sergey Tiviakov (The Netherlands, 2667)
Loek van Wely (The Netherlands, 2683)
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 2678)
Alexander Motylev (Russia, 2647)

Schedule for Corus 2007

Round 1 V. Topalov – A. Motylev
Round 2 V. Topalov – L. van Wely
Round 3 S. Karjakin – V. Topalov
Round 4 V. Topalov – A. Shirov
Round 5 S. Tiviakov – V. Topalov
Round 6 V. Topalov – D. Navara
Round 7 R. Ponomariov – V. Topalov
Round 8 V. Topalov – V. Anand
Round 9 L. Aronian – V. Topalov
Round 10 V. Topalov – M. Carlsen
Round 11 P. Svidler – V. Topalov
Round 12 V. Topalov – V. Kramnik
Round 13 T. Radjabov – V. Topalov

Our team will provide detailed coverage of the event and will closely follow the N1 player in the world, Veselin Topalov. Expect many pictures, interviews, analysis, and special reports.

Special thanks to the Corus tournament director Jeroen van den Berg for the materials provided and to Goran Urosevic from Chess Strategy for his great previews of Corus 2007.

Preview games of Corus 2007:

Topalov, Anand
Topalov, Ponomariov
Topalov, Shirov
Topalov, Motylev

Interviews:

Jeroen van den Berg, Corus tournament director
Silvio Danailov, Topalov’s manager on Grand Slam final negotiations

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