Corus Chess 2010 .....

The Corus Chess Tournament 2010 will be held from 15 - 31 January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.


Participants grandmaster group A

Name Country Position FIDE ratinglist.

GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2810 1

GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2790 3

GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2788 4

GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2749 8

GM Peter Leko HUN 2739 12

GM Alexei Shirov SPA 2723 20

GM Sergey Karjakin RUS 2720 21

GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2712 25

GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2708 28

GM Nigel Short ENG 2696 38

GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2675 51

GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2662 62

GM Jan Smeets NED 2657 73

GM Loek van Wely NED 2641 104


Average rating : 2719
Category : 19





http://www.coruschess.com/information.php

Who do you think will win ?

Well, Carlsen is the favorite of course ... yes, he'll win ! Second will be Anand ... and third Shirov. Last will be Loek van Wely.

Who do yóu think will win ?

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Who do you think will win ?

DanVM

Originally posted by Phlabibit
DanVM

he isn't participating...

I think Carlsen has what it takes to win, though I'd like someone else to win it...

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?subject=who_will_win_corus_2010%3F&threadid=124458

aaand we have the first wussy draw of the tournament, unsurprisingly from drawnik. boo. BOOO!

Originally posted by orion25
he isn't participating...

I think Carlsen has what it takes to win, though I'd like someone else to win it...

Who would you like to win the tournament ?

Originally posted by Phlabibit
DanVM

😵

Loek van Wely has beaten Short in a classical queen's gambit declined ... interesting.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Loek van Wely has beaten Short in a classical queen's gambit declined ... interesting.

looks like heinz is leading the prediction poll after 1st round.

when was the last time leko played an exciting game? too bad he screwed it up eventually... all that remains to be seen is whether he can 'leko-porn' it into a draw. I doubt it...

Anand

Sylvin De Vet will do well in the amateur section.Sylvin's french will withstand all white tries 🙂

Originally posted by wormwood
aaand we have the first wussy draw of the tournament, unsurprisingly from drawnik. boo. BOOO!

Yes, we got draws from Drawguez, Drawnand, Drawjakin, Drawkamura, Drawlsen, Drawchuk and Drawuana too.

Originally posted by philidor position
Yes, we got draws from Drawguez, Drawnand, Drawjakin, Drawkamura, Drawlsen, Drawchuk and Drawuana too.

A kramnik fan?

Take a look here: http://www.coruschess.com/statistics.php?t=4
Kramnik is only 20th.
Trifunovic drew 84.62% of his games.Quite the draw expert 😉

Originally posted by philidor position
Yes, we got draws from Drawguez, Drawnand, Drawjakin, Drawkamura, Drawlsen, Drawchuk and Drawuana too.

maybe drawnand, for not even trying to win the almost certainly but not quite drawn ending. but the rest of them at least tried. drawnik aimed at a draw straight from the opening. he had 1h 34min left on his clock when the draw was agreed. disgusting.

Originally posted by Ajuin
A kramnik fan?

Take a look here: http://www.coruschess.com/statistics.php?t=4
Kramnik is only 20th.
Trifunovic drew 84.62% of his games.Quite the draw expert 😉

Yep, a proud one.

Draw%
67.03 91 Ivanchuk, Vassily
64.10 39 Carlsen, Magnus
64.10 117 Kramnik, Vladimir

Oh what a drawlsen, what a drawchuk. DISGUSTING