The 72nd Corus Chess tournament will be held from 15 January – 31 January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee.
Corus A
| GM | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2801 | ||
| GM | Viswanathan Anand | IND | 2788 | ||
| GM | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2772 | ||
| GM | Peter Leko | HUN | 2752 | ||
| GM | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2739 | ||
| GM | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2723 | ||
| GM | Leinier Dominguez | CUB | 2719 | ||
| GM | Alexei Shirov | SPA | 2719 | ||
| GM | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2715 | ||
| GM | Nigel Short | ENG | 2707 | ||
| GM | Sergey Tiviakov | NED | 2664 | ||
| GM | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 2662 | ||
| GM | Loek van Wely | NED | 2652 | ||
| GM | Jan Smeets | NED | 2650 | ||
| Average rating | : 2719 |
| Category | : 19 |
Corus B
| GM | Arkadij Naiditsch | GER | 2689 | ||
| GM | Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu | ROM | 2677 | ||
| GM | Pentala Harikrishna | IND | 2672 | ||
| GM | Emil Sutovsky | ISR | 2666 | ||
| GM | Hua Ni | CHN | 2665 | ||
| GM | Wesley So | PHI | 2640 | ||
| GM | Tomi Nyback | FIN | 2628 | ||
| GM | Varuzhan Akobian | USA | 2624 | ||
| GM | Parimarjan Negi | IND | 2620 | ||
| GM | Erwin l’Ami | NED | 2606 | ||
| GM | David Howell | ENG | 2597 | ||
| GM | Anish Giri | NED | 2585 | ||
| GM | Dimitri Reinderman | NED | 2575 | ||
| WGM | Anna Muzychuk | SLO | 2532 | ||
| Average rating | : 2627 |
| Category | : 16 |
Corus C
| GM | Li Chao-b | CHN | 2596 | ||
| GM | Abhijeet Gupta | IND | 2578 | ||
| GM | Ray Robson | USA | 2567 | ||
| GM | Kjetil Lie | NOR | 2547 | ||
| IM | Nils Grandelius | SWE | 2540 | ||
| GM | Robin Swinkels | NED | 2500 | ||
| GM | Daniele Vocaturo | ITA | 2500 | ||
| IM | Robin van Kampen | NED | 2470 | ||
| WGM | Marya Muzychuk | UKR | 2447 | ||
| GM | Zhaoqin Peng | NED | 2408 | ||
| FM | Benjamin Bok | NED | 2337 | ||
| FM | Stefan Kuipers | NED | 2316 | ||
| WGM | Soumya Swaminathan | IND | 2303 | ||
| Sjoerd Plukkel | NED | 2259 | |||
| Average rating | : 2455 |
| Category | : 9 |
Official website: http://www.coruschess.com/index.php
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Looking forward to another triple-teen triumph – Carlsen, So, Robson.
Does this mean that Chucky is out of retirement?
Brit-Mate
I really like the way Wijk is organized – Group A has world class players but not only the usual suspects, Group B also very strong but even more colorful, and Group C a nice mix between established players and local players. Many games per round to watch, not to mention the Open tournament. In my view better than Linares and all the others…
Dont see Aronian in a group? Is he on vacation? But otherwise Group A xciting wit Nigel Short, also showing that he is still to be reckoned with? ha ha,ha
Gavin Blaauw
Cape Town, South Africa