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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.
Corus Chess 2008 Round 7

19.01.2008 Round 7 was played on Saturday 19 January. In Group A there were two decisive games. Aronian defeated Radjabov and Anand defeated Polgar. Carlsen leads with 5.0 points, followed by Kramnik and Aronian with 4.5 points. In Group B there were three decisive games. Movsesian (vs Stellwagen), Hou (vs Smeets) and Koneru (vs Krasenkow) were the happy ones. Movsesian and Bacrot lead with 5.0 points, followed by four players with 4.0 points. In Group C there were four decisive games. Grivas defeated Braun, Caruana defeated Carlsson, Negi defeated Krush and Ushenina defeated Van Der Werf. Caruana and Braun lead with 5.0 points. The Honorary Group started today with wins for Kortchnoi (vs Portisch) and Timman (vs Ljubojevic).

Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com

01 The Chess Pavilion
The Chess Pavilion.
It was a rainy day in 'Wike ahn Zay'.


02 Results R07 & R01

03 Van Den Berg, Sosonko, Ljubojevic
Tournament director Jeroen Van Den Berg, Dutch GM Genna Sosonko and Ljubomir Ljubojevic

04 Portisch is ready to shake hands with Kortchnoi
Lajos Portisch is waiting for Viktor Kortchnoi to shake hands

05 Kortchnoi vs Portisch
Viktor Kortchnoi vs Lajos Portisch

06 Ljubojevic vs Timman
Ljubomir Ljubojevic vs Jan Timman

07 Polgar vs Anand, Movsesian and Ljubojevic
Judit Polgar vs Viswanathan Anand 0-1,
Sergey Movsesian and Ljubomir Ljubojevic


08 Topalov vs Carlsen & Honorary Group
Veselin Topalov vs Magnus Carlsen & Honorary Group

09 Etienne Bacrot
Etienne Bacrot

10 Group B
Group B

11 Sargissian vs Cheparinov
Nobody seems to be interested in Gabriel Sargissian vs Ivan Cheparinov as Vladimir Kramnik arrives to play Vassily Ivanchuk.

12 Chinese talent HOU Yifan defeats Dutch hope Jan SMEETS
Chinese talent HOU Yifan defeats Dutch hope Jan SMEETS

13 Zhaoqin Peng vs Friso Nijboer
Zhaoqin Peng vs Friso Nijboer

14 Parimarjan Negi vs Irina Krush
Parimarjan Negi vs Irina Krush

15 vdWerf vs Ushenina and Ruijgrok vs Li
Mark Van Der Werf vs Anna Ushenina, and
Dennis Ruijgrok vs Shilong Li


16 Group C
Group C


Calendar
13.01.12-29.01.12
Tata Steel Chess
(Wijk aan Zee)


24.01.12-02.02.12
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012

28.01.12-05.02.12
Moscow Open

31.01.31
Schaaksimultaan Karjakin, Giri & Tiviakov, Den Haag

04.02.12-05.02.12
Schachbundesliga R8+9

06.02.12-17.02.12
Aeroflot Open 2012
Moscow


16.02.12-19.02.12
Vladimir Petrov Memorial
Jurmala (Latvia)


17.02.12-19.02.12
Bunratty Chess Festival, Ireland

17.02.12-19.02.12
Daniël Noteboom Weekend Tournament, Leiden (Netherlands)

17.02.12-22.02.12
ACP Women Cup 2012
Tbilisi (Georgia)


18.02.12-19.02.12
Västgöta Open
Skara (Sweden)


03.03.12
Open Dutch Blitzchess Championship, Dordrecht (Netherlands)

03.03.12-10.03.12
Cappelle-la-Grande 2012

06.03.12-13.03.12
Reykjavik Open 2012

19.03.12-01.04.12
European Individual Chess Championship, Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

04.04.12-08.04.12
Philadelphia Open
Pennsylvania (US)


06.04.12-08.04.12
OGD Prinsenstad Weekend Tournament
Delft (Netherlands)


07.06.12-10.06.12
Rheinland-Pfalz-Open, Germany

04.07.12-08.07.12
40th World Open, Pennsylvania (US)

14.07.12-22.07.12
Science Park Amsterdam Chess Tournament (Netherlands)

11.01.13-27.01.13
Tata Steel Chess 2013
(Wijk aan Zee)


Links
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Susan Polgar
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