1. Felicific Forest
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    16 Jan '10 17:17
    Originally posted by wormwood
    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.
    Kramknik stated a while ago he wanted to win Corus this year ... we'll see about that. He will certainly be reminded of this by some journalist.
  2. Standard memberwormwood
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    16 Jan '10 17:21
    Originally posted by philidor position
    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
    most of those draws no doubt came from playing against kramnik. 😛

    (drawsen really did have a long curse of draws last year though, it only changed towards the end of the year.)
  3. Felicific Forest
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    18 Jan '10 00:05
    I'm particularly interested in how the Dutch GM Anish Giri, the Dutch champion who is 15 years old, will perform in this tournament. He plays in GM group B.

    Participants grandmaster group B
    Name Country Rating

    GM Arkadij Naiditsch GER 2687 Photo

    GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ROM 2681 Photo

    GM Pentala Harikrishna IND 2672 Photo

    GM Hua Ni CHN 2657 Photo

    GM Emil Sutovsky ISR 2657 Photo

    GM Wesley So PHI 2656 Photo

    GM Tomi Nyback FIN 2643 Photo

    GM Varuzhan Akobian USA 2628 Photo

    GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2621 Photo

    GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2615 Photo

    GM David Howell ENG 2606 Photo

    GM Anish Giri NED 2588 Photo

    GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2573 Photo

    IM Anna Muzychuk SLO 2523 Photo


    Average rating : 2629
    Category : 16

    FIDE-ratings of January 2010


    http://www.coruschess.com/participants.php?year=2010&group=2

    ********************************************************************

    So far he has beaten P. Harikrishna and L. Nisipeanu.
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    18 Jan '10 00:111 edit
    Originally posted by ivanhoe
    I'm particularly interested in how the Dutch GM Anish Giri, the Dutch champion who is 15 years old
    Well, I'm particularly interested in the Ukrainian IM Anna Muzychuk, who is 20 years old, for reasons completely unknown.
  5. The Hague
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    18 Jan '10 00:53
    Originally posted by philidor position
    IM Anna Muzychuk, who is 20 years old, for reasons completely unknown.
    I'd have to say one of these reasons might be she was born some over 20 years ago...
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    18 Jan '10 16:09
    Shirov 3.0/3
  7. Standard memberwormwood
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    18 Jan '10 17:101 edit
    Originally posted by heinzkat
    Shirov 3.0/3
    yeah, who would've thought of that?

    lots of nice decisive games today. and is dominguez really winning anand? looks nasty, but is there really any progress to be made? maybe not. anand sure hasn't been worrying much, pretty much blitzing through it so far.

    aaand they just agreed to a draw. 🙂
  8. Felicific Forest
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    18 Jan '10 19:45
    Originally posted by philidor position
    Well, I'm particularly interested in the Ukrainian IM Anna Muzychuk, who is 20 years old, for reasons completely unknown.
    😛
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    18 Jan '10 20:281 edit
    Originally posted by philidor position
    Well, I'm particularly interested in the Ukrainian IM Anna Muzychuk, who is 20 years old, for reasons completely unknown.
    mmm, tasty! but sadly is too young and too fiesty by the looks of things!
  10. Kalispell, MT
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    18 Jan '10 20:44
    Originally posted by philidor position
    Well, I'm particularly interested in the Ukrainian IM Anna Muzychuk, who is 20 years old, for reasons completely unknown.
    understandable... although, even in her 30's Almira Skripchenko seems to steal quite
    a bit of my attention whenever in the spotlight.

    -GIN
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    19 Jan '10 17:33
    Shirov 4.0/4
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    19 Jan '10 18:03
    Originally posted by heinzkat
    Shirov 4.0/4
    And what a great game he played in round 4:

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    19 Jan '10 18:05
    I don't like White's position at all after move 31, the way he went on to win seems a bit like chess hustling to me. Probably they just calculated it all out though 😉
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    19 Jan '10 18:23
    Originally posted by heinzkat
    I don't like White's position at all after move 31, the way he went on to win seems a bit like chess hustling to me. Probably they just calculated it all out though 😉
    Strange to think that a Grandmaster with a rating of 2650+ can be hustled!

    Black's position just looks so defendable after 31 moves. The two bishops are like two guard dogs and any of Black's major pieces can swing in to help defend if necessary. White's rook on c1 is useless and he's a piece down, and yet six moves later, it's all over.

    Maybe 31. ... Bxd4 was wrong? It gave White a lot of tactics on the d-file.
  15. Pale Blue Dot
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    20 Jan '10 08:58
    Nigel Short's comments after managing a draw against Carlsen:

    “It was an interesting game,” Short told reporters, “I had absolutely no idea what was going on. The thing was I suspected he would play the Scottish against an Englishman, so I decided to play the Scandinavian against a Norwegian.” Asked if he was satisfied with his half point against the Norwegian boy wonder, Short reacted: “Satisfied? Why should I be satisfied with a draw against a kid? I’m a grandmaster with 25 years of experience!”

    http://www.coruschess.com/report.php?year=2010&report=4
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