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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 2009 Round 7

24.01.2009 Round 7 was played on Saturday 24 January. In Group A there were two decisive games. Movsesian defeated Ivanchuk and Morozevich Smeets. Karjakin and Movsesian lead with 4.5 points, followed by Aronian, Dominguez and Radjabov with 4.0 points. In Group B there were six decisive games, and one draw. Short (vs Kasimdzanov), Volokitin (vs Reinderman), Mecking (vs Sasikiran), Motylev (vs Hou), L’Ami (vs Navara) and Caruana (vs Werle) were the happy ones. Short leads with 5.0 points, followed by Volokitin, Motylev and Caruana with 4.5 points. In Group C there were three decisive games. Gupta defeated Howell, Hillarp Persson defeated Iturrizaga and Leon Hoyos defeated Bosboom (who turned 46 today). Hillarp Persson and So lead with 5.0 points. Photos by Frits Agterdenbos.

Official Corus Chess Tournament website: www.coruschess.com

01 Playing venue De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee
Playing venue De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee

02 Entrance
Entrance

03 Book sellers in entrance hall
Book sellers in entrance hall

04 Grandmaster groups A and B
Grandmaster groups A and B, with Andrei Volokitin vs Dimitri Reinderman in front

05 Fabiano Caruana (right) - Jan Werle 1-0
Fabiano Caruana (right) - Jan Werle 1-0

06 Sergei Karjakin
Sergei Karjakin, co-leader with Sergei Movsesian

07 Alexander Morozevich - Jan Smeets 1-0
Alexander Morozevich - Jan Smeets 1-0

08 Dronavalli Harika
Dronavalli Harika

09 Gata Kamsky - Daniel Stellwagen draw
Gata Kamsky - Daniel Stellwagen draw

10 Abhijeet Gupta
Abhijeet Gupta

11 Loek Van Wely - Magnus Carlsen draw
Loek Van Wely - Magnus Carlsen draw

12 Loek van Wely
Loek Van Wely

13 Michael Adams - Teimour Radjabov draw
Michael Adams - Teimour Radjabov draw

14 Alexander Motylev
Alexander Motylev

15 Oleg Romanishin
Oleg Romanishin

16 Wijk aan Zee at night
Wijk aan Zee at night

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)


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