Photo and video report round 1
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
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms.
Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools.
Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013.
As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
In October, Peter's first book The Chess Revolution will be published!
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