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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.24.01.2008 Today Thursday 24 January is the final rest day for the players in A, B, C and the Honoray Group. Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 January the final three rounds will be played. In tomorrow’s round 11 Magnus Carlsen (group A), Sergey Movsesian (group B), Fabiano Caruana (group C) and Viktor Kortchnoi (Honorary Group) will be defending their leading positions. In this report ChessVista provides you with the Pairings Round 11, the Final Three Rounds Opponents of the Top 7 (group A) including some statistics. Also in this report: a gallery of the Honorary Group and some stock photos by Frits Agterdenbos plus some links to interesting websites. Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com The Chess Pavilion at night (photo 2008-01-19) Loek Van Wely (photo 2008-01-20) Come on, Loek, go !!! The column Perf denotes the round 10 performance rating which is the best predictor of the playing strength in this tournament. The column Avg Perf is the average of the performance ratings of the three opponents in rounds 11-13. Avg Perf is an indicator of the average opposition the player will meet in the final three rounds. Sorry, the photographer is also an actuary with a true love for statistics. We can conclude that Carlsen’s job to win the tournament will not be easy since he has to overcome a 2772 resistance. We could draw the same conclusion without doing statistics by just seeing the names of his opponents (Anand, Kramnik and Radjabov). Sergey Movsesian (photo 2008-01-20) On top in Group B Zwaanstraat in Wijk aan Zee (photo 2008-01-19) Websites covering the Corus Chess tournament: ChessBase.com ChessBase.de ChessBase.com/espanola ChessClub.com ChessDom.com ChessGateway.com ChessNinja.com ChessPro.ru ChessVibes.com Chess22.fr The Week in Chess Honorary Group Portraits Viktor Kortchnoi (photo 2008-01-18) Jan Timman (photo 2008-01-18) Still my hero Ljubomir Ljubojevic (photo 2008-01-18) Lajos Portisch (photo 2008-01-18)