Corus 2010
The 2010 Corus chess tournament was held from 16th until 31st January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The winner of the top group qualifies for the Grand Slam Final 2010.
The Corus had three main tournaments, with 14 players each. They are played according to the round-robin system, whereby each competitor plays in turn against every other during the tournament.
Magnus Carlsen won the main A Group by collecting 8.5 points from 13 games. Dutch Champion Anish Giri shone in the Group B and won the competition with 9.0 points, half a point ahead of Arkadij Naiditsch. Li Chao B from China, the top seed in the Group C, convincingly won with 10.0 points, full point and a half ahead of the nearest follower.
Corus A final standings:
1. GM Magnus Carlsen, Norway – 8.5
2-3. GM Alexei Shirov, Spain and GM Vladimir Kramnik, Russia – 8.0
4-5. GM Viswanathan Anand, India and GM Hikaru Nakamura, USA – 7.5
6-7. GM Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukraine and GM Sergey Karjakin, Russia – 7.0
8-9. GM Leinier Dominguez Perez, Cuba and GM Peter Leko, Hungary – 6.5
10. GM Fabiano Caruana, Italy – 5.5
11-12. GM Loek van Wely, Netherlands and GM Nigel Short, England – 5.0
13-14. GM Jan Smeets, Netherlands and GM Sergey Tiviakov, Netherlands – 4.5
Corus B final standings:
1. GM Anish Giri, Netherlands – 9.0
2. GM Arkadij Naiditsch, Germany – 8.5
3. GM Ni Hua, China – 8.0
4-5. GM Wesley So, Philippines and GM Erwin l’Ami, Netherlands – 7.5
6-7. GM Parimarjan Negi, India and GM Pentala Harikrishna, India – 6.5
8-9. GM David Howell, England and GM Emil Sutovsky, Israel – 6.0
10-11. WGM Anna Muzychuk, Slovenia and GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Romania – 5.5
12-13. GM Tomi Nyback, Finland and GM Dimitri Reinderman, Netherlands – 5.0
14. GM Varuzhan Akobian, USA – 4.5
Corus C final standings:
1. GM Li Chao B, China – 10.0
2. GM Abhijeet Gupta, India – 8.5
3-4. GM Daniele Vocaturo, Italy and IM Robin van Kampen, Netherlands – 8.0
5-6. GM Ray Robson, USA and GM Robin Swinkels, Netherlands – 7.5
7. FM Benjamin Bok, Netherlands – 7.0
8-10. WGM Marya Muzychuk, Ukraine, FM Stefan Kuipers, Netherlands and IM Nils Grandelius, Sweden – 6.0
11. GM Kjetil Lie, Norway – 5.5
12. GM Zhaoqin Peng, Netherlands – 5.0
13-14. WGM Soumya Swaminathan, India and Sjoerd Plukkel, Netherlands – 3.0
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