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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
29.01.10-08.02.10
Moscow Open 2010

06.02.10-07.02.10
Schachbundesliga R8+9
Germany


08.02.10-19.02.10
Aeroflot Open 2010
Moscow


12.02.10-14.02.10
Daniël Noteboomtoernooi 2010
Leiden


12.02.10-25.02.10
XXVII Linares 2010

13.02.10-20.02.10
Cappelle-la-Grande 2010

19.02.10-28.02.10
Fajr Chess 2010, Iran

19.02.10-28.02.10
Batavia Amsterdam
(Results)


19.02.10-28.02.10
Batavia Amsterdam
(Live games)


24.02.10-03.03.10
Reykjavik Open 2010

05.03.10-19.03.10
EICC 2010
Rijeka


12.03.10-14.03.10
Western Class Championships, Southern California

12.03.10-25.03.10
Amber Chess
Nice


20.03.10
Hypercube Blitz Utrecht
Netherlands


31.03.10-04.04.10
Philadelphia Open

02.04.10-04.04.10
OGD Prinsenstad Tournament
Delft


02.04.10-05.04.10
Open Lugano 2010

09.04.10-11.04.10
Ichthus Open Chess Tournament 2010
Driehuis


05.05.10-14.05.10
Bosna Open
Sarajevo


21.05.10-24.05.10
Limburg Open
Maastricht


27.05.10-31.05.10
Chicago Open

04.06.10-06.06-10
Open Kampioenschap van Utrecht (OKU 2010)

29.06.10-05.07.10
World Open
Pennsylvania


02.07.10-04.07.10
Nova College Chess Tournament, Haarlem

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