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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.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 Pentala Harikrishna (right) - Nigel Short, Arbiter Alex Roose is watching. Erwin L'Ami 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