Corus Chess 2009

list of Corus 2009 participants

The Corus Chess Tournament 2009 will be held from 16 January - 1 February 2009 in Wijk aan Zee. This will be the 71st Corus Chess Tournament and will again be divided into A, B, C, and amateur groups.

Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will not be present at this year's Corus edition. Topalov will also skip the event, as he will concentrate on the upcoming challengers match. The winners of last year Carlsen and Aronian will compete again.

Complete list of the participants:

Corus 2009, group A

GM Alexander Morozevich RUS 2771
GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2776
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2779
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2750
GM Teymour Radjabov AZE 2761
GM Wang Yue CHN 2739
GM Michael Adams ENG 2712
GM Sergei Movsesian SVK 2751
GM Sergei Karjakin UKR 2706
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2725
GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2717
GM Loek van Wely NED 2625
GM Daniel Stellwagen NED 2612
GM Jan Smeets NED 2601

Corus 2009, group B

GM Krishnan Sasikiran IND 2711
GM Zahar Efimenko UKR 2688
GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov UZB 2687
GM Alexander Motylev RUS 2676
GM Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2702
GM Andrei Volokitin UKR 2671
GM Nigel Short ENG 2663
GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2646
GM David Navara CZE 2638
GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2603
GM Jan Werle NED 2607
WGM Hou Yifan CHN 2571
GM Henrique Mecking BRA 2567
GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2549

Corus 2009, group C

GM Wesley So PHI 2627
GM David Howell ENG 2622
GM Abhijeet Gupta IND 2569
GM Tiger Hillarp Persson SWE 2586
GM Friso Nijboer NED 2560
GM Eduardo Iturrizaga VEN 2528
IM Manuel Leon Hoyos MEX 2542
GM Oleg Romanishin UKR 2533
GM Frank Holzke GER 2524
FM Anish Giri RUS 2469
WGM Dronavalli Harika IND 2473
IM Roeland Pruijssers NED 2444
IM Manuel Bosboom NED 2418
IM Ali Bitalzadeh NED 2400

As from January 2009, the rate of play in Grandmaster groups A, B and C will change to: 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour, followed by 15 minutes with 30 seconds per move increment to finish the game.

Photos from Corus

Photo report - by Carla Amse