Corus chess tournament 2009

Incepand de azi, are loc primul mare turneu al anului 2009. La Wijk aan Zee se disputa turneul Corus Chess 2009. Asa cum v-am mai anuntat turneul se desfasoara in perioada 17 ianuarie -1 februarie 2009, in regim de 13 runde. La acest turneu, in cele 3 grupe destinate marilor maestrii vor partipa:

Grupa A

Ivanchuk, nr.1 in grupa A

	Name	Country	Rating	Position
GM	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2779	3	Biography
GM	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2776	4	Biography
GM	Alexander Morozevich	RUS	2771	5	Biography
GM	Teymour Radjabov	AZE	2761	6	Biography
GM	Sergei Movsesian	SVK	2751	10	Biography
GM	Levon Aronian	ARM	2750	11	Biography
GM	Wang Yue	CHN	2739	13	Biography
GM	Gata Kamsky	USA	2725	17	Biography
GM	Leinier Dominguez	CUB	2717	23	Biography
GM	Michael Adams	ENG	2712	24	Biography
GM	Sergei Karjakin	UKR	2706	27	Biography
GM	Loek van Wely	NED	2625		Biography
GM	Daniel Stellwagen	NED	2612		Biography
GM	Jan Smeets	NED	2601		Biography

Grupa B

	Name	Country	Rating
GM	Krishnan Sasikiran	IND	2711	Biography
GM	Francisco Vallejo Pons	ESP	2702	Biography
GM	Zahar Efimenko	UKR	2688	Biography
GM	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	UZB	2687	Biography
GM	Alexander Motylev	RUS	2676	Biography
GM	Andrei Volokitin	UKR	2671	Biography
GM	Nigel Short	ENG	2663	Biography
GM	Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2646	Biography
GM	David Navara	CZE	2638	Biography
GM	Jan Werle	NED	2607	Biography
GM	Erwin l’Ami	NED	2603	Biography
WGM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2571	Biography
GM	Henrique Mecking	BRA	2567	Biography
GM	Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2549	Biography

grupa C

Name	Country	Rating
GM	Wesley So	PHI	2627
GM	David Howell	ENG	2622
GM	Tiger Hillarp Persson	SWE	2586
GM	Abhijeet Gupta	IND	2569
GM	Friso Nijboer	NED	2560
GM	Manuel Leon Hoyos	MEX	2542
GM	Oleg Romanishin	UKR	2533
GM	Eduardo Iturrizaga	VEN	2528
GM	Frank Holzke	GER	2524
WGM	Dronavalli Harika	IND	2473
FM	Anish Giri	RUS	2469
IM	Roeland Pruijssers	NED	2444
IM	Manuel Bosboom	NED	2418
IM	Ali Bitalzadeh	NED	2400

Prima runda se va desfasura dup aurmatorul program:

Grupa A:

D. Stellwagen – S. Movsesian
M. Carlsen – T. Radjabov
L. Aronian – W. Yue
V. Ivanchuk – J. Smeets
S. Karjakin – A. Morozevich
L. van Wely – L. Dominguez
G. Kamsky – M. Adams

Grupa B:

H. Yifan – R. Kasimdzhanov
K. Sasikiran – E. l’Ami
D. Reinderman – F. Vallejo Pons
N. Short – J. Werle
A. Volokitin – F. Caruana
H. Mecking – Z. Efimenko
A. Motylev – D. Navara

Grupa C

T. Hillarp Persson – R. Pruijssers
D. Howell – M. Bosboom
F. Nijboer – W. So
O. Romanishin – A. Bitalzadeh
A. Giri – F. Holzke
A. Gupta – D. Harika
E. Iturrizaga – M. Leon Hoyos