Corus Chess 2010

participants in the 2010 edition of the Corus Wijk Aan Zee tournament

The 72nd Corus Chess 2010 tournament will be held from 15 January - 31 January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The winner of the event will qualify for the Grand Slam Final 2010.

Here are the participants lists.

Corus 2010

GM Viswanathan Anand, India
GM Magnus Carlsen, Norway
GM Vladimir Kramnik, Russia
GM Peter Leko, Hungary
GM Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukraine
GM Hikaru Nakamura, USA
GM Alexei Shirov, Spain
GM Sergey Karjakin, Russia (winner of Corus last year)
GM Leinier Dominguez Perez, Cuba
GM Nigel Short, England
GM Sergey Tiviakov, Netherlands
GM Fabiano Caruana, Italy (winner of Corus B)
GM Loek van Wely, Netherlands
GM Jan Smeets, Netherlands

Corus B

GM Ni Hua, China
GM Arkadij Naiditsch, Germany
GM Emil Sutovsky, Israel
GM Pentala Harikrishna, India
GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Romania
GM Wesley So, Philippines (winner of Corus C)
GM Varuzhan Akobian, USA
GM David Howell, England
GM Parimarjan Negi, India
GM Tomi Nyback, Finland
GM Erwin l’Ami, Netherlands
GM Dimitri Reinderman, Netherlands
GM Anish Giri, Netherlands
WGM Anna Muzychuk, Slovenia

Corus C

GM Li Chao B CHN
GM Abhijeet Gupta IND
GM Ray Robson USA
GM Kjetil Lie NOR
IM Nils Grandelius SWE
GM Robin Swinkels NED
GM Daniele Vocaturo ITA
IM Robin van Kampen NED
WGM Marya Muzychuk UKR
GM Zhaoqin Peng NED
FM Benjamin Bok NED
FM Stefan Kuipers NED
WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND
Sjoerd Plukkel NED

Russia and USA increase their lead at the World Team Chess 2010

Greece brings yet another surprise

The teams of Russia and USA and convincingly leading the World Team Chess 2010 in Bursa, Turkey. After six rounds they have 10 match points each (5 wins and 1 loss), full three match points ahead of the chasing pack where 3rd-6th position is shared by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel, and India. The team of Greece is 7th after they created yet another surprise - after beating Russia at the start now they brought down the Olympic champions from Armenia with a 3:1 score.

Standings

1 RUSSIA 10 MP 15½ GP
2 UNITED STATES 10 MP 15½ GP
3 AZERBAIJAN 7 MP 13½ GP
4 ARMENIA 7 MP 13 GP
5 ISRAEL 7 MP 13 GP
6 INDIA 7 MP 12½ GP
7 GREECE 6 MP 13 GP
8 EGYPT 3 MP 9 GP
9 BRAZIL 2 MP 9 GP
10 TURKIYE 1 MP 6 GP

Results round 6

10 ARMENIA 1 - 3 8 GREECE

GM Aronian Levon 2781 ½ : ½ GM Kotronias Vasilios 2599
GM Akopian Vladimir 2678 0 : 1 GM Papaioannou Ioannis 2625
GM Sargissian Gabriel 2680 ½ : ½ GM Banikas Hristos 2608
GM Petrosian Tigran L 2627 0 : 1 GM Halkias Stelios 2566

9 UNITED STATES 3 - 1 7 BRAZIL

GM Nakamura Hikaru 2708 1 : 0 GM Leitao Rafael 2620
GM Onischuk Alexander 2670 ½ : ½ GM Fier Alexandr 2601
GM Shulman Yuri 2624 ½ : ½ GM Milos Gilberto 2618
GM Akobian Varuzhan 2628 1 : 0 GM Diamant Andre 2497

1 AZERBAIJAN 2 - 2 6 ISRAEL

GM Gashimov Vugar 2759 ½ : ½ GM Gelfand Boris 2761
GM Radjabov Teimour 2733 ½ : ½ GM Roiz Michael 2657
GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2741 ½ : ½ GM Sutovsky Emil 2657
GM Mamedov Rauf 2640 ½ : ½ GM Rodshtein Maxim 2622

2 TURKIYE 2 - 2 5 EGYPT

GM Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2498 0 : 1 GM Adly Ahmed 2591
IM Erdogdu Mert 2513 0 : 1 GM Amin Bassem 2544
IM Can Emre 2442 1 : 0 IM Abdel Razik Khaled 2468
FM Firat Burak 2413 1 : 0 IM Abdelnabbi Imed 2448

3 INDIA 1½ - 2½ 4 RUSSIA

GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2653 ½ : ½ GM Grischuk Alexander 2736
GM Harikrishna P 2672 ½ : ½ GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2730
GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2654 ½ : ½ GM Malakhov Vladimir 2716
GM Arun Prasad S 2567 0 : 1 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2692