Corus 2010 Line-Up Announced

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: