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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 5
17.01.2008 Round 5 was played on Thursday 17 January. Veselin Topalov defeated Boris Gelfand and Shakhryar Mamedyarov defeated Loek Van Wely. Teymour Radjabov (by defeating Pavel Eljanov) joined the lead with Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian who both drew their games. In Group B Etienne Bacrot defeated Jan Smeets to take the sole lead with 4.0 points. Pentala Harikrishna is second on 3.5 points after a draw versus Sergey Movsesian, who is now on 3.0 points, together with the Dutch GMs Daniel Stellwagen, Erwin L’Ami and Jan Smeets. Wouter Spoelman scored his first half versus Yifan Hou. In group C Arik Braun lost his first half by drawing versus Dennis Ruijgrok who scored his first half in the tournament. Arik Braun is leading with 4.5 points, followed by Fabiano Caruana (4.0 points) and Dimitri Reinderman (3.5 points). Photo report by Frits Agterdenbos.
Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com
Photographers Fred Lucas and Michel Utrecht waiting for the grandmasters at the start of round 5
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov - Boris Gelfand
Veselin Topalov and hostesses
Hostesses and Boris Gelfand
Shakhryar Mamedyarov
Michael Adams
Magnus Carlsen with orange juice
Pavel Eljanov - Teymour Radjabov,
Thomas van Beekum (chief arbiter) and Theo Hoogland arriving to tell the photographers their five shooting minutes are over
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Shakhryar Mamedyarov (right) on his way to beat Loek Van Wely (left).
Jan Smeets and Michael Adams are in the middle.
Jan Smeets - Etienne Bacrot 0-1
Nigel Short watching Michal Krasenkow's position
Erwin L'Ami - Ivan Cheparinov,
Dolf Vos watching
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Wouter SPOELMAN - HOU Yifan (now with correct nameplate)
Mark Van Der Werf
Anna Ushenina
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Zhaoqin PENG (right) - LI Shilong
Zhaoqin Peng seen through Chinese and Dutch flags
Arik Braun
Friso Nijboer - Irina Krush and Shilong Li
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