Monday, February 01, 2010

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

Group A: Round 13 - 31st January
Loek van Wely - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Nigel Short - Jan Smeets ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Sergey Tiviakov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Fabiano Caruana ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Peter Leko ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Leinier Dominguez ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik - Sergey Karjakin ½-½

Group B: Round 13 - 31st January
Parimarjan Negi - Anish Giri ½-½
Pentala Harikrishna - Tomi Nyback ½-½

Group C: Round 13 - 31st January
Daniele Vocaturo - Soumya Swaminathan 1-0
Abhijeet Gupta - Ray Robson 1-0

In last round, Anand drew his game with Dutch GM Loek van Wely to finished on T4 position with 7½ pts ... He shared 4th position with American GM Hikaru Nakamura ... Magnus Carlsen won 2010 Corus Championship first time with 8½ pts .. ½ pt more than second place Kramnik and Shirov ... In Group B, Hari and Negi drew their respective matches ... Negi drew with Group B winner 15 yrs old Dutch GM Anish Giri ... Negi and Hari finished on T6 position with 6½ pts ... And in Group C, Abhijeet scored win against Ray Robson in last match but Soumya lost her last match and finished tied for last position with Plukkel, they ended on 3 pts ... Abhijeet finished on sole second position with 8½ pts, but he was 1½ pts behind Group C winner Chinese GM Li Chao.

Overall so-so tournament for Indian players.

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