Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 2 - 17th January
Viswanathan Anand - Nigel Short ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Loek van Wely 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Jan Smeets 1-0
Vassily Ivanchuk - Sergey Tiviakov ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Fabiano Caruana 1-0
Vladimir Kramnik - Peter Leko ½-½
Sergey Karjakin - Leinier Dominguez ½-½

Group A: Round 1 - 16th January
Sergey Karjakin - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Leinier Dominguez - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½
Peter Leko - Alexei Shirov 0-1
Fabiano Caruana - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Jan Smeets - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Loek van Wely - Nigel Short 1-0

After 2 rounds Anand is still searching for first win ... In first round he drew his game playing with blacks against 2009 winner Sergey Karjakin ... In second round British grandmaster Nigel Short managed to hold him playing with blacks after 57 moves ... So Anand in T4th position with 1 pt and Alexei Shirov leading with 100% winning record.

In Group B, Playing with whites Parimarjan Negi drew his second game against WGM Anna Muzychuk, the lowest Elo rating opponent in the group ... He is on 1 pt ... Also playing with whites Pentala Harikrishna opened his account after drawing his game with David Howell .. He lost first game against local 15 yrs old GM Anish Giri, who is leading the standing.

In Group C, Abhijeet Gupta drew his second game playing with whites against Ukrainian WGM Marya Muzychuk ... He is on 1 pt ... Soumya Swaminathan opened her account after drawing against local lowly ranked Sjoerd Plukkel.