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Handmade Chess Figures
Jan de Jong was in Wijk aan Zee to show and sell his handmade chess figures. Interested? You can contact him via email.
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Corus Chess 2008 Round 1
12.01.2008 Round 1 was played on Saturday 12 January 01.30 PM. In group A the Big Three didn’t do well. Viswanathan Anand lost to Teymour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov lost to Levon Aronian. Vladimir Kramnik – Loek Van Wely was a draw. Magnus Carlsen defeated Shakhryar Mamedyarov. In Group B Ivan Cheparinov defeated Wouter Spoelman and Etienne Bacrot defeated Yifan Hou. In group C no game ended in a draw. The three ladies lost their games: Anna Ushenina – John Van Der Wiel 0-1, Shilong Li - Irina Krush 1-0 and Zhaoqin Peng – Fabiano Caruana 0-1. The Dutch squadron (11 players, in 2007 there were 14) scored plus 1: 0.5/1 in A + 2.5/4 in B + 3.0/6 in C = 6.0/11. Photo report by Frits Agterdenbos.
Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com
Playing venue De Moriaan
Playing Hall
Teymour Radjabov - Viswanathan Anand 1-0
Vladimir Kramnik - Loek Van Wely draw
Photography makes ugly faces.
Levon Aronian - Veselin Topalov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen
Theo Hoogland (member of Tournament Committee), Thomas Van Beekum (Chief Arbiter) and Viswanathan Anand (Chess Player)
Arbiters Thomas Van Beekum and Pavel Votruba & Veselin Topalov
Shakhryar Mamedyarov
Vassily Ivanchuk - Judit Polgar draw
Veselin Topalov being shot
Pavel Eljanov - Peter Leko,
Gelfand is looking for good moves.
The Spanish journalist Leontxo García
Nigel Short
Wouter Spoelman under fire
Humpy Koneru
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Pentala Harikrishna (right) - Nigel Short,
Arbiter Alex Roose is watching.
Erwin L'Ami
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Daniel Stellwagen (right) - Michal Krasenkow 1-0
Did the Polish flag empower Daniel?
Hou Yifan
Fabiano Caruana
Shilong Li - Irina Krush 1-0
Parimarjan Negi
Anna Ushenina
The Voorstraat in Wijk aan Zee
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