Corus 2009 Round 10 Pairings & Results & Gibraltar Chess Festival Round 1 results

Here's tomorrow's pairings for Corus 2009, followed by results of Round 1 of the 2009 Gibraltar Chess Festival (Some players there: GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Gadir Guseinov, GM Peter Svidler, GM Viktor Bologan, GM Hao Wang, GM Alexey Dreev, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Pentala Harikrishna and GM Ivan Sokolov.)

Corus 2009 Round 10 pairings for today:

Round 10 - Wednesday the 28th
Group GM-A

S. Movsesian ½-½ Y. Wang
T. Radjabov ½-½ J. Smeets
D. Stellwagen ½-½ A. Morozevich
M. Carlsen 1-0 L. Dominguez
L. Aronian 1-0 M. Adams
V. Ivanchuk ½-½ G. Kamsky
S. Karjakin ½-½ L. van Wely



Round 10 - Wednesday the 28th
Group GM-B

R. Kasimdzhanov 1-0 F. Vallejo Pons
E. l'Ami 1-0 J. Werle
Y. Hou ½-½ F. Caruana
K. Sasikiran 0-1 Z. Efimenko
D. Reinderman ½-½ D. Navara
N. Short ½-½ A. Motylev
A. Volokitin ½-½ H. Mecking



Round 10 - Wednesday the 28th
Group GM-C

R. Pruijssers 0-1 W. So
M. Bosboom 1-0 A. Bitalzadeh
T. Hillarp Persson - F. Holzke
D. Howell 0-1 D. Harika
F. Nijboer 0-1 M. Leon Hoyos
O. Romanishin 0-1 E. Iturrizaga
A. Giri 1-0 A. Gupta

Corues 2009 Standings after 9 Rounds:

Group GM A

Standings after Round 9 (Average rating: 2716)
1-3 5.5 GM Levon Aronian ARM 2750
GM Sergei Karjakin UKR 2706
GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2717

4-5 5.0 GM Teimour Radjabov AZE 2761
GM Sergei Movsesian SVK 2751

6-9 4.5 GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2776
GM Loek van Wely NED 2625
GM Jan Smeets NED 2601
GM Michael Adams ENG 2712

10-12 4.0 GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2779
GM Wang Yue CHN 2739
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2725

13 3.5 GM Daniel Stellwagen NED 2612

14 3.0 GM Alexander Morozevich RUS 2771


Group GM B

Standings after Round 9 (Average rating: 2641)

1 6.0 GM Nigel Short ENG 2663

2-6 5.5 GM David Navara CZE 2638
GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2646
GM Andrei Volokitin UKR 2671
GM Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2702
GM Alexander Motylev RUS 2676

7 5.0 GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov UZB 2687

8 4.5 GM Zahar Efimenko UKR 2688

9 4.0 GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2603

10-11 3.5 WGM Hou Yifan CHN 2571
GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2549

12-14 3.0 GM Krishnan Sasikiran IND 2711
GM Jan Werle NED 2607
GM Henrique Mecking BRA 2567


Corus Group GM C

Standings after Round 9 (Average rating: 2521)
Group GM-C

1 6.5 GM Tiger Hillarp Persson SWE 2586

2 6.0 GM Wesley So PHI 2627

3-5 5.5 GM Abhijeet Gupta IND 2569
GM Frank Holzke GER 2524
GM David Howell ENG 2622

6 5.0 FM Anish Giri RUS 2469

7-8 4.5 WGM Dronavalli Harika IND 2473
IM Manuel Bosboom NED 2418

9-12 3.5 IM Ali Bitalzadeh NED 2400
GM Friso Nijboer NED 2560
GM Eduardo Iturrizaga VEN 2528
IM Roeland Pruijssers NED 2444

13-14 3.0 GM Oleg Romanishin UKR 2533
GM Manuel Leon Hoyos MEX 2542


It looks like the two new wünderkind, GM's Caruana and So are showing that they belong with the big boys. GM Wesley So is close to catching GM Tiger Hillarp Persson and GM Fabiano Caruana is tied for 2nd behind leader GM Nigel Short, who is playing very well, by the way, in Group B. These are definately two to watch in the future, with GM Magnus Carlsen where he is already, the future looks to be bright.




Now, Round 1 in the 2009 Gibraltar Chess Festival has started and results are in, it was won last year by GM Hikaru Nakamura I believe, who's among the players this year as well along with many top GMs.

GM Peter Svidler RUS 2723
GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2699
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2696
GM Hao Wang CHN 2691
GM Alexey Dreev RUS 2688
GM Viktor Bologan MDA 2687
GM Pentala Harikrishna IND 2673
GM Gadir Guseinov AZE 2661
GM Ivan Sokolov NED 2657

Round 1 results:

Quillan(2357) 1/2-1/2 GM Gashimov(2723)
GM Vachier Lagrave(2696) 1-0 IM Khaorus(2400)
FM Perez Ponsa(2390) 0-1 GM Harikrishna(2673)
GM Svidler(2727) 1-0 FM Van Eijk(2355)
FM Leniart(2360) 0-1 GM Nakamura(2699)

As this is a large Swiss style tournament, I will just show results I see on the Internet Chess Club or the Official Site as the later rounds go on or this will be way too long.