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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.31.01.2008 The Closing Ceremony of the 70th Corus Chess Tournament took place Sunday 27 January in the Chess Pavillion in Wijk aan Zee. An important part of the Corus Chess closing ceremony is the Prize-Giving, but the most important part is the Pea Soup Dinner. It is said that a newcomer in the tournament who openly dislikes the soup will not be invited again. Prizes were awarded to the winners of the Grandmaster Groups: Aronian and Carlsen (A), Movsesian (B) and Caruana (C). In the meanwhile, the 65th Pea Soup Dinner (Dutch: Snertmaaltijd) took place. The tournament is full of traditions. Which include rules and restrictions to players and journalists. And there are privileges for a few happy ones. Maybe you ask, how did the pea soup taste this year? Well I don’t know. It was the first time since 1980 (in which year I had my first Wijk aan Zee photo on the cover of Schakend Nederland) that my request to join the dinner was refused. Okay I said, just let me take photos, that will be enough. That was allowed. But at arriving at the Chess Pavillion, crowded with chess companions sitting at tables, I was told to wait outside till the soup had been served. Later on I got access. And I did my job. A lot of chess journalists were excluded and stayed away from the scene. Wondering why. I saw one of them drinking in a bar, lonely as chess can make you. Disappointed and grieved. Next year the fight to be in will be tougher than ever. But not everybody will come again. To pea or not to pea, that is the question. Report by Frits Agterdenbos. Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com Pea Soup recipe: www.coquinaria.nl Pea Soup Dinner in the Chess Pavillion Dolf Vos, Chairman Tournament Committee Levon Aronian and Corus director Marjan Oudeman Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Marjan Oudeman and Dolf Vos Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen and Marjan Oudeman Pea Soup Dinner Henrik Carlsen and Magnus Carlsen discussing the Pea Soup Henrik Carlsen and Magnus Carlsen. Henrik dares to take another bite. Magnus is definitely not going to do the same. Pea Soup Dinner Dimitri Reinderman and Dolf Vos Nigel Short and Etienne Bacrot. Tie for second place in Group B. Sergey Movsesian wins first prize in Group B Viktor Kortchnoi Viktor Kortchnoi Judit Polgar HOU Yifan wins junior talent prize HOU Yifan (right) and her coach YU Shaoteng (left) Manuel Bosboom promotes to Corus Chess 2009 Group C Ljubomir Ljubojevic wins Honorary Group Corus director Marjan Oudeman Wijk aan Zee at night, Corus Chess 2008 is over.