Corus Chess 2010

participants in the 2010 edition of the Corus Wijk Aan Zee tournament

The 72nd Corus Chess 2010 tournament will be held from 15 January - 31 January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The winner of the event will qualify for the Grand Slam Final 2010.

Here are the participants lists.

Corus 2010

GM Viswanathan Anand, India
GM Magnus Carlsen, Norway
GM Vladimir Kramnik, Russia
GM Peter Leko, Hungary
GM Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukraine
GM Hikaru Nakamura, USA
GM Alexei Shirov, Spain
GM Sergey Karjakin, Russia (winner of Corus last year)
GM Leinier Dominguez Perez, Cuba
GM Nigel Short, England
GM Sergey Tiviakov, Netherlands
GM Fabiano Caruana, Italy (winner of Corus B)
GM Loek van Wely, Netherlands
GM Jan Smeets, Netherlands

Corus B

GM Ni Hua, China
GM Arkadij Naiditsch, Germany
GM Emil Sutovsky, Israel
GM Pentala Harikrishna, India
GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Romania
GM Wesley So, Philippines (winner of Corus C)
GM Varuzhan Akobian, USA
GM David Howell, England
GM Parimarjan Negi, India
GM Tomi Nyback, Finland
GM Erwin l’Ami, Netherlands
GM Dimitri Reinderman, Netherlands
GM Anish Giri, Netherlands
WGM Anna Muzychuk, Slovenia

Corus C

GM Li Chao B CHN
GM Abhijeet Gupta IND
GM Ray Robson USA
GM Kjetil Lie NOR
IM Nils Grandelius SWE
GM Robin Swinkels NED
GM Daniele Vocaturo ITA
IM Robin van Kampen NED
WGM Marya Muzychuk UKR
GM Zhaoqin Peng NED
FM Benjamin Bok NED
FM Stefan Kuipers NED
WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND
Sjoerd Plukkel NED