Originally posted by wormwoodKramknik 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.
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 philidor positionmost of those draws no doubt came from playing against kramnik. 😛
Yep, a proud one.
Draw%
67.0391Ivanchuk, Vassily
64.1039Carlsen, Magnus
64.10117Kramnik, Vladimir
Oh what a drawlsen, what a drawchuk. DISGUSTING
(drawsen really did have a long curse of draws last year though, it only changed towards the end of the year.)
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
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So far he has beaten P. Harikrishna and L. Nisipeanu.
Originally posted by heinzkatyeah, who would've thought of that?
Shirov 3.0/3
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. 🙂
Originally posted by heinzkatStrange to think that a Grandmaster with a rating of 2650+ can be hustled!
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 😉
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.
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