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Black and White
Iceland, May 2009
Corus Chess 2007 Round 3

15.01.2007 Round 3 was played on Monday 15 January 01.30 PM. In group A Radjabov (2.5 points) took the lead.by defeating Shirov (and winning the expert prize), while the Big Three all drew their games: Kramnik vs Tiviakov, Topalov vs Karjakin, and Anand vs Aronian. In Group B only one game was drawn: Bologan vs Stellwagen. Bu and Smeets are on 2.5 points, followed by 3 players on 2 points. In group C Nepomniachtchi made his first draw. He shares the lead with Negi and Bosboom, all on 2.5 points. The Dutch squadron (14 players) scored minus 1: 1.0/2 in A + 3.5/5 in B + 2.0/7 in C = 6.5/14.

Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com

Results R3

no01 Grazing land with horse
Wijk aan Zee. Grazing land with horse, Corus in the background

no02 Nadezhda Kosintseva
Nadezhda Kosintseva

no03 Friso Nijboer
Friso Nijboer

no04 Viswanathan Anand - Levon Aronian draw
Viswanathan Anand - Levon Aronian 0.5-0.5

no05 Sergei Tiviakov - Vladimir Kramnik draw
Sergei Tiviakov - Vladimir Kramnik 0.5-0.5

no06 Topalov in focus
Topalov in focus; the photographer is Michel Utrecht

no07 Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov

no08 Suat Atalik (right) - Jan Smeets 0-1
Suat Atalik (right) - Jan Smeets 0-1

no09 Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi

no10 Loek Van Wely
Loek Van Wely

no11 Pavel Eljanov
Pavel Eljanov

no12 Suat Atalik
Suat Atalik

no13 Michal Krasenkow
Michal Krasenkow

no14 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

(All photos were taken on 15 January by Frits Agterdenbos)


Calendar
01.01.09-31.12.09
Weekend Tournaments in the Netherlands 2009
(update 28 June 2009)


27.06.09-05.07.09
Intomart GfK Open, Hilversum

29.06.09-05.07.09
World Open, Philadelphia

02.07.09-12.07.09
Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, Dortmund

10.07.09-19.07.09
Leiden Chess Tournament

18.07.09-26.07.09
Politiken Cup 2009, Copenhagen

18.07.09-31.07.09
Biel Chess Festival

21.07.09-30.07.09
Dutch Open Championship, Dieren

27.07.09-02.08.09
Chess Classic Mainz 2009

01.08.09-08.08.09
Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament 2009, Vlissingen

07.08.09-17.08.09
Staunton Memorial, Simpson’s In The Strand

20.08.09-31.08.09
NH Chess Tournament, Amsterdam

22.08.09-23.08.09
Zürich Chess Club 200th Anniversary

16.10.09-24.10.09
Univé Chess Tournament, Hoogeveen

27.11.09-08.12.09
Benidorm 2009

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