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ChessVista.com is the website of chess photographer Frits Agterdenbos. The site provides the international chess community with high quality chess photos and chess news of chess players from international chess events. There will be visual reports and an album with chess photo collections showing all the visual aspects of the chess world.21.12.2006 The organizers of the Corus Chess Tournament 2007 have announced the replacement of two players in the Grandmaster Groups B and C. In Group B Alexandra Kosteniuk (who is ill) has been replaced by Viktor Bologan from Moldova, and in Group C Sipke Ernst (university obligations) has been replaced by Dutch woman champion Zhaoqin Peng. The categories remain the same. Group A is a category 19 event, B is category 14 and C is category 10. The Grandmaster Groups host 3 x 14 = 42 players of which 14 are from the Netherlands, 7 from Russia and 3 from Ukraine. Four female players will participate: Tatiana Kosintseva in Group B and Nadezhda Kosintseva, Hou Yifan and Zhaoqin Peng in Group C. The mega event will take place 13-28 January 2007 in Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands). This report updates the ChessVista Report 02.12.2006 Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com Stone Chess Table in Wijk aan Zee city centre (photo 2006-11-26) BU Xiangzhi from China (photo 2006-05-24, Turin) Viktor Bologan from Moldova (photo 2006-25-27, Turin) Tatiana Kosintseva from Russia (photo 2006-04-04, Turin) Tatiana Kosintseva in Group B holds a GM norm. The Turin Chess Olympiad 2006 brought 4 female players a (general !) GM norm: ZHAO Xue (CHN), HOANG Thanh Trang (HUN), ZHUKOVA, Natalia (UKR) and KOSINTSEVA, Tatiana (RUS). Tatiana Kosintseva is Russian Women’s Champion (2002, 2004), Russian Women’s Vice-Champion (2005). In 2006 she shared the third place together with her sister Nadezhda. Nadezhda Kosintseva from Russia (photo 2006-04-04, Turin) HOU Yifan from China (photo 2006-05-24, Turin) PENG Zhaoqin from The Netherlands (photo 2006-06-29, Hilversum) Players per Country All ratings and rankings are based on the FIDE Rating List of October 2006. (All photos by Frits Agterdenbos)