Corus Chess Tournament 2008
The Corus Chess Tournament 2008 was the 70th edition of the Corus Chess Tournament.
| Venue | Wijk aan Zee |
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It took place in the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk aan Zee in January 2008. The format of each of the three Grandmaster groups remained a 14 player single round robin. The participants in group A included eight of the world's top ten players (country, October 2007 rating and rank in brackets): Viswanathan Anand (India, 2801, 1), Vasyl Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2787, 2), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2785, 3), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2769, 4), Peter Leko (Hungary, 2755, 5=), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2752, 7), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2742, 8) and Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2741, 9). The remaining players were Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2736, 11), Michael Adams (England, 2729, 13), Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2714, 16=), Judit Polgár (Hungary, 2708, 20), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2691, 26) and Loek van Wely (Netherlands, 2679, 31). The average rating of 2742 made it a Category 20 tournament. The only top ten players not participating were Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 2755, 5=) and Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2739, 10).
The tournament was won by Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen (both scoring 8 out of 13).[1][2]
Grandmaster group B was won by Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia with 9½ points, and group C by Italy's Fabiano Caruana with 10, two points ahead of his nearest rival. The Honorary group, a new category consisting of four former A group champions playing a double round robin, was won by Ljubomir Ljubojević with 4 points out of 6, ahead of Jan Timman, Viktor Korchnoi and Lajos Portisch.
The tournament was also notable for the "handshake incident", in which Nigel Short was awarded a win by forfeit after his opponent, Ivan Cheparinov, refused to shake his hand.[3]
70th Corus Chess Tournament, grandmaster group A, 12–27 January 2008, Wijk aan Zee, Cat. XX (2742)[4] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total SB TPR 1 Levon Aronian (Armenia) 2739 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 8 50.00 2830 2 Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2733 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 8 48.50 2830 3 Viswanathan Anand (India) 2799 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 7½ 48.00 2795 4 Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) 2735 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 7½ 46.50 2800 5 Peter Leko (Hungary) 2753 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 7 46.00 2770 6 Vasyl Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 2751 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 7 44.50 2771 7 Michael Adams (England) 2726 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 6½ 41.75 2744 8 Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) 2799 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6½ 41.75 2738 9 Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) 2780 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 6 39.00 2710 10 Judit Polgár (Hungary) 2707 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 6 38.00 2716 11 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) 2760 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6 37.50 2712 12 Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine) 2692 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 5 32.00 2659 13 Loek van Wely (Netherlands) 2681 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 5 31.75 2660 14 Boris Gelfand (Israel) 2737 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 5 31.75 2656
70th Corus Chess Tournament, grandmaster group B, 12–27 January 2008, Wijk aan Zee, Cat. XV (2618)[5] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total SB TPR 1 GM Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia) 2677 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 9½ 2789 2 GM Nigel Short (England) 2645 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8½ 52.50 2726 3 GM Étienne Bacrot (France) 2700 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 8½ 51.75 2722 4 GM Pentala Harikrishna (India) 2664 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7½ 2672 5 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) 2600 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 7 2648 6 GM Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria) 2713 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6½ 2611 7 GM Erwin l'Ami (Netherlands) 2581 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 6 38.00 2592 8 GM Jan Smeets (Netherlands) 2573 0 0 0 1 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 6 37.50 2593 9 WGM Hou Yifan (China) 2527 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6 36.50 2596 10 GM Daniël Stellwagen (Netherlands) 2625 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6 35.50 2589 11 GM Humpy Koneru (India) 2612 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 5½ 2562 12 GM Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia) 2676 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 5 31.75 2527 13 GM Michał Krasenkow (Poland) 2636 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 5 28.25 2530 14 IM Wouter Spoelman (Netherlands) 2424 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 0 0 4 2492
70th Corus Chess Tournament, grandmaster group C, 12–27 January 2008, Wijk aan Zee, Cat. X (2494)[6] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total SB TPR 1 GM Fabiano Caruana (Italy) 2598 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 10 2696 2 GM Dimitri Reinderman (Netherlands) 2533 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 8 48.00 2577 3 GM Parimarjan Negi (India) 2526 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 8 44.25 2578 4 GM Pontus Carlsson (Sweden) 2501 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7½ 2550 5 WGM Irina Krush (United States) 2473 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 7 45.25 2524 6 IM Arik Braun (Germany) 2536 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 7 42.00 2519 7 GM John van der Wiel (Netherlands) 2490 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 7 41.25 2523 8 GM Friso Nijboer (Netherlands) 2578 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 40.75 2516 9 IM Mark van der Werf (Netherlands) 2389 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 6½ 2502 10 GM Li Shilong (China) 2502 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 6 38.00 2464 11 GM Efstratios Grivas (Greece) 2509 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 6 36.75 2463 12 GM Peng Zhaoqin (Netherlands) 2461 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 4½ 26.50 2386 13 WGM Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) 2484 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4½ 22.50 2384 14 Dennis Ruijgrok (Netherlands) 2329 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 2 2210
70th Corus Chess, honorary group, 12–27 January 2008, Wijk aan Zee, Cat. XIII (2560)[7] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 Total SB TPR 1 Ljubomir Ljubojević (Serbia) 2565 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 4 2683 2 Jan Timman (Netherlands) 2559 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 3 9.50 2560 3 Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) 2545 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 3 7.50 2565 4 Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 2570 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 2 2431
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