After the drawing of lots on Friday, Saturday finally the first moves were made on the holy chess boards of the Corus Chess Tournament. The big guys started with what will be the strongest tournament of 2007. And if you look at the players, you can feel that they've come for some serious business. Perhaps it was this tension that caused the many draws of today (in group A only Radjabov won, against Van Wely). Chessvibes photographed and filmed the starting moments of round 1, and some analysis afterwards.First the photos (by forest), below the videos (by peter and rapanui).
Veselin Topalov
Alexei Shirov
Magnus Carlsen
Loek van Wely
Sergey Tiviakov
Levon Aronian
Bu Xiangzhi
Stellan Brynell
Emanuel Berg
Erwin l'Ami
Jan Werle
Tatiana KosintsevaAnd here the moving images:Start of round 1
Post-mortem Navara-Aronian
Post-mortem Shirov-Svidler
After the drawing of lots on Friday, Saturday finally the first moves were made on the holy chess boards of the Corus Chess Tournament. The big guys started with what will be the strongest tournament of 2007. And if you look at the players, you can feel that they've come for some serious business. Perhaps it was this tension that caused the many draws of today (in group A only Radjabov won, against Van Wely). Chessvibes photographed and filmed the starting moments of round 1, and some analysis afterwards.First the photos (by forest), below the videos (by peter and rapanui).
Veselin Topalov
Alexei Shirov
Magnus Carlsen
Loek van Wely
Sergey Tiviakov
Levon Aronian
Bu Xiangzhi
Stellan Brynell
Emanuel Berg
Erwin l'Ami
Jan Werle
Tatiana KosintsevaAnd here the moving images:Start of round 1
Post-mortem Navara-Aronian
Post-mortem Shirov-Svidler
