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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.13.01.2008 Round 2 was played on Sunday 13 January. It definitely was a good day for the white pieces (nine wins). In group A Levon Aronian defeated Boris Gelfand. Aronian said at the press conference his victory over Gelfand was the first time in his life. Magnus Carlsen defeated Pavel Eljanov. The other games ended in a draw. Aronian and Carlsen lead on 2.0 points. In Group B six players share the lead on 1.5 points. In group C only two games ended in a draw. Pontus Carlsson (fever 40.0) made a quick draw versus Zhaoqin Peng. Li, Caruana, Braun and Van Der Wiel lead on 2.0 points. The Dutch squadron (11 players) scored minus 4: 0.5/1 in A + 1.0/4 in B + 2.0/6 in C = 3.5/11. Photo report by Frits Agterdenbos. Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com The 0708 Mystery. Did ChessVista solve the mystery of the ‘0708’ on the Corus Chess 2008 billboard? This year’s tournament is the 70th edition, in 2008. So 70 in 2008, or 70 in 08, makes 0 70 8, makes 0708. Levon Aronian Ian Nepomniachtchi Michael Adams Vladimir Kramnik - Teymour Radjabov draw Photography makes ugly faces. Do photographers know what photography does to them? Vassily Ivanchuk Loek and the ladies Irina Krush Nigel Short (right) - Erwin L'Ami 1-0 Pontus Carlsson, fever Wouter Spoelman Daniel Stellwagen Sergey Movsesian in B&W Levon Aronian in press conference The Voorstraat at night