Corus 08: Short, Morozevich, Topalov win

Corus Chess Tournament Wijk aan Zee 14 – 30 January 2005 Official web site – Live coverage – All ChessBase reports

Round eight

Adams vs Svidler was a draw in 21 moves, van Wely and Ponomariov drew in 24, Anand and Kramnik terminated hostilities at move 27. Topalov won his game with the black pieces against Bruzon. Alexander Morozevich won his first game in this tournnament, against Judit Polgar. Nigel Short convincingly refuted Ivan Sokolov's Berlin Defence. Grischuk vs Leko was a long, 63-move maneuvering struggle which ended in a draw.

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Picture parade

Wijk on a warm winter day

An early morning delight: horse trotting practice on the beach

Vishy Anand preparing his weapons of combat

Okay, Vlady, you want to show me what you've got?

Maybe today is my day? It was – Alex Morozevich beat Judit Polgar

Ruslan Ponomariov, a fighter with a keen sense of humour

Let us take a peek at the other participants, slugging it out in groups B and C. We really mean slugging it out. Did you notice that in the C group today six of the seven games were decided. And that in five of these six games Black was victorious? Well here are some pictures from the category 13 Group B.

Sergey Karjakin, the Ukraine prodigy who became a grandmaster and second to a world champion (Ponomariov) before he became a teenager. He turned 15 a couple of weeks ago and is in second place in the B Group.

This is Alexandra Kosteniuk, whose moonlighting in modelling and acting sometimes tend to let us forget that she is one of the strongest female players in the world.

Another child prodigy, but whose name doesn't start with a "K" (it just sounds that way). Magnus Carlsen, the bright chess hope from Norway and, at 14, the youngest grandmaster in the world today.

Alejandro Ramirez Alvarez, 16, grandmaster and shockingly bright. Alejandro is Costa Rica's first grandmaster and could probably play a simultaneous exhibition against all the other chess players in his country.

Veteran GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, 20, from Azerbaijan (just like you-know-who), is leading the B Group by a full point.

WGM Tea Lanchava, born in Georgia, now living in Holland

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