Archive for January 11th, 2008

Jan 11 2008

Corus

Published by Jared Meijin under Jared's Chess, Sci-Fi, and Video Games

I was talking to a friend of mine about what I could do to make this site better. Robert and I have a few test pages up where we’re looking at other color schemes and logos and such. One of the things that my friend suggested was being more specific about our target audience. I have been jumping around with movies, books, video games, chess, anime, news, travel, and my life. From now on I’m going to start narrowing down my focus. Chess is something I will definitely keep.

Speaking of chess, the Corus Chess Tournament is this weekend. I had almost forgot about it with my own stuff going on. This is one of the first big international tournaments of the year. There have a very nice line up. There are three grandmaster divisions.

    Group A (name, country, rating)

  • GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2799
  • GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2799
  • GM Veselin Topalov BUL 2780
  • GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov AZE 2760
  • GM Peter Leko HUN 2753
  • GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2751
  • GM Levon Aronian ARM 2739
  • GM Boris Gelfand ISR 2737
  • GM Teymour Radjabov AZE 2735
  • GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2733
  • GM Michael Adams ENG 2726
  • GM Judit Polgar HUN 2707
  • GM Pavel Eljanov UKR 2692
  • GM Loek van Wely NED 2681
    Group B

  • GM Ivan Cheparinov BUL 2713
  • GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2700
  • GM Sergey Movsesian SVK 2677
  • GM Gabriel Sargissian ARM 2676
  • GM Pentala Harikrishna IND 2664
  • GM Nigel Short ENG 2645
  • GM Michal Krasenkow POL 2636
  • GM Daniel Stellwagen NED 2625
  • GM Humpy Koneru IND 2612
  • GM Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2600
  • GM Erwin L’Ami NED 2581
  • GM Jan Smeets NED 2573
  • WGM Yifan Hou CHI 2527
  • IM Wouter Spoelman NED 2424
    Group C

  • GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2598
  • GM Friso Nijboer NED 2578
  • IM Arik Braun GER 2536
  • GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2533
  • GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2526
  • GM Efstratios Grivas GRE 2509
  • GM Shilong Li CHI 2502
  • GM Pontus Carlsson SWE 2501
  • GM John van der Wiel NED 2490
  • WGM Anna Ushenina UKR 2484
  • WGM Irina Krush USA 2473
  • GM Zhaoqin Peng NED 2461
  • IM Mark van der Werf NED 2389
  • Dennis Ruijgrok NED 2329

It looks like everyone is going to be there except for Gata Kamsky. Maybe next year I can see about going. I guess that I should focus on my upcoming Virginia Open. That is next weekend. Wish me luck.

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