Corus 2010 Line-Up Announced

Submitted by SonofPearl on Sun, 10/18/2009 at 8:14am.

The organisers of the annual Corus Tournament in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands have announced the full line-ups for the A and B Groups in next year's event, which runs from 15-31 January.

Five of the current top ten rated players will feature, including world champion Vishy Anand (pictured), former champion Vladimir Kramnik, and hot-to-trot Norwegian wunderkid "Magnum-Force" Magnus Carlsen.

Also packing their long johns and booking their tickets for Wijk in January are Hikaru Nakamura, Alexei Shirov and last year's winner Sergey Karjakin.

Fabiano Caruana is promoted to the A group after earning his place by winning the B Group last year. Despite just missing out on victory in the B Group last year after leading for most of the event, Nigel Short is also let loose on the big guns in the A Group this time.

As usual, the B Group is a strong tournament in its own right, headed by Ni Hua of China and featuring lots of young talent in the form of David Howell, Anish Giri, Parimarjan Negi and last year's C Group winner, Wesley So.

The full line-ups for the A and B Groups:

A Group
Viswanathan Anand	IND	2788
Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2772
Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2772
Peter Leko	HUN	2762
Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2756
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2735
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2730
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2722
Leinier Dominguez Perez	CUB	2719
Nigel Short	ENG	2706
Sergey Tiviakov	NED	2670
Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2662
Loek van Wely	NED	2650
Jan Smeets	NED	2642

B Group
Ni Hua	CHN	2692
Arkadij Naiditsch	GER	2685
Emil Sutovsky	ISR	2676
Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2673
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	ROM	2664
Wesley So	PHI	2644
Varuzhan Akobian	USA	2637
David Howell	ENG	2624
Parimarjan Negi	IND	2615
Tomi Nyback	FIN	2615
Erwin l'Ami	NED	2606
Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2572
Anish Giri	NED	2552
Anna Muzychuk	SLO	2533

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by tristan_20 - 2 years ago
Naga City Philippines

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Go wesley! Group C down.. 2 groups to go!

by 64_block_square - 2 years ago
Calamba City Philippines

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go wesley so!!!

by kunduk - 2 years ago
kolkata India

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anish giri is also from asian background..

by WGM Natalia_Pogonina - 2 years ago
Saratov Russia

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Corus's going to be very exciting with lots of intrigues: how will Carlsen fare against the renowned champions; Naka's performance; Carlsen vs Karjakin vs Caruana, etc.

And in the B section I will probably be rooting for my team member and good friend Anya Muzychuk.

by Iverieli - 2 years ago
tbilisi Georgia

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by Iverieli - 2 years ago
tbilisi Georgia

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by Karricus - 2 years ago
Tallaght Ireland

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I'm glad to see Short got through. I'm not sure he can win, but he is definitely capable of beating anybody in the group.

GO SHORTIE!!

by edmilz - 2 years ago
caloocan Philippines

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GO WESLEY!

by fchif - 2 years ago
Ploiesti Romania

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What about Levon Aronian???

by azegogo - 2 years ago
Baku Azerbaijan

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where is Teymur Rajabov?

by Blind_Demon - 2 years ago
Wilkes-Barre United States

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wish svidler was playing, i enjoy his superb use of the Gruenfeld...

by Maishall - 2 years ago
Sydney Australia

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Vishy Anand.

by Manchurian - 2 years ago
Germany

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Too many good players are missing in this event like Adams, Aronian, Polgar and Topalov. I don´t understand most of the players that had instead been nominated:-(

by amitprabhale - 2 years ago
Mumbai India

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Topalov Scared of Anand... HAHAHAHAHHA

by JKO - 2 years ago
Iceland

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wheres levon aronian?

by I_GM - 2 years ago
Kolkata India

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Ha ha ha ! Indian are top in chess !!!!!

by WhiteSox7 - 2 years ago
Chicago United States

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Magnus Carlsen is an unstoppable force right now, he will own

by vioxx - 2 years ago
Lahad Datu Malaysia

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I think topalov is scared out of his wit to feature here. He is afraid that by doing so badly here will affect his preparation against Anand.

by Matanzas - 2 years ago
Matanzas Cuba

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My countryman Leinier will give a good colour to the tournament because he's a warrior and he has a good level. He won't be favourite, of course, but he can made some miracles.

by B97 - 2 years ago
United States

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I would not expect much from Anand given his upcoming BIG match with Topalov. If anything, he would probably look to glean something out of his opponents' preperation.

I wonder what Anand would play in response to d4? Slav? Gruenfeld? QGD?

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