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

Group A: Round 7 - 23rd January
Fabiano Caruana - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Peter Leko ½-½
Jan Smeets - Leinier Dominguez ½-½
Loek van Wely - Sergey Karjakin ½-½
Nigel Short - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Alexei Shirov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0

Group B: Round 7 - 23rd January
Parimarjan Negi - Pentala Harikrishna ½-½

Group C: Round 6 - 22nd January
Stefan Kuipers - Soumya Swaminathan ½-½
Sjoerd Plukkel - Abhijeet Gupta 0-1

At Corus anybody faces Anand and manage draw ... Same thing happened in 7th round also against 17 yrs old Italian-American GM Fabiano Caruana ... American GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated leader Alexei Shirov to moved to second place with Magnus Carlsen, now they r ½ pt behind leader Shirov ... Anand is T7 with 3½ pts.

In Group B, Hari and Negi played safe draw while facing eachother ... Hari is on 4 pt remained 1½ pts behind leader Anish Giri on T6 position and Negi is on T8 with 3½ pts.

In Group C, Soumya managed her only second draw in 7 rounds and Abhijeet scored win playing with blacks ... Today leader 15 yrs old Ray Robson lost his match so now Abhijeet is only ½ pt behind leader.