A Corus of Approval
Monday, January 18, 2010 1:17:11 PM
There was a safety-first start to the 72nd Corus Wijk Aan Zee tournament in the Netherlands, as all the top players had black on the opening day and it proved to be a cautionary tale of draws all round. The only winners on the opening day were Loek Van Wely and Alexei Shirov, who turned on the style to beat, respectively, Nigel Short and Peter Leko to lead at the end of the first round. GM Gregory Kaidanov's choice for GOTD was Van Wely vs. Short - ICC members can view this video in full below. Non-members can view a free 5 min preview of the video - to watch in full, join ICC now.
| N |
Name |
FED |
FIDE |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
PTS |
TPR |
| 1 |
Shirov, Alexei |
ESP |
2723 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1 |
. |
1 |
-- |
| 2 |
Van Wely, Loek |
NED |
2641 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1 |
1 |
-- |
| 3 |
Anand, Viswanathan |
IND |
2790 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2720 |
| 4 |
Carlsen, Magnus |
NOR |
2810 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
½ |
2662 |
| 5 |
Caruana, Fabiano |
ITA |
2675 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2749 |
| 6 |
Dominguez Perez, Leinier |
CUB |
2712 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2788 |
| 7 |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
UKR |
2749 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2675 |
| 8 |
Karjakin, Sergey |
UKR |
2720 |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2790 |
| 9 |
Kramnik, Vladimir |
RUS |
2788 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2712 |
| 10 |
Nakamura, Hikaru |
USA |
2708 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2657 |
| 11 |
Smeets, Jan |
NED |
2657 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2708 |
| 12 |
Tiviakov, Sergei |
NED |
2662 |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
½ |
2810 |
| 13 |
Leko, Peter |
HUN |
2739 |
0 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
0 |
-- |
| 14 |
Short, Nigel D |
ENG |
2696 |
. |
0 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
0 |
-- |
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World #1 Magnus Carlsen heads the field for this year's Corus tournament that also includes World Champion Vishy Anand, former champion Vladimir Kramnik and last year's winner Sergey Karjakin. Completing the Corus line-up is: US champion Hikaru Nakamura, Vassily Ivanchuk, Leinier Dominguez, Fabiano Caruana, Jan Smeets and Sergei Tiviakov.
Chess.FM will have extended live coverage of Corus throughout starting each round at 7:30am ET (1:30pm CET local). Joining Mig Greengard each day will be our expert team of Chess.FM commentators that includes Peter Svidler, Jan Gustafsson, Gregory Kaidanov, Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Jon Speelman, Gawain Jones, Ronen Har-Zvi, Andy Martin and Nick De Firmian.
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