Corus 2009 Round 11 Pairings

Today's another rest day for the players at Corus, trying to give them strength going into the final 3 games of Round 11, 12 & 13. Also will post the standings after round 10 at the end of the article.

Round 11 - Friday the 30th
Group GM-A

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


Round 11 - Friday the 30th
Group GM-B

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


Round 11 - Friday the 30th
Group GM-C

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




Round 10 Standings:

Group GM A

1 6.5 GM Levon Aronian ARM 2750

2 6.0 GM Sergei Karjakin UKR 2706

3-6 5.5 GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2776
GM Teimour Radjabov AZE 2761
GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2717
GM Sergei Movsesian SVK 2751

7-8 5.0 GM Loek van Wely NED 2625
GM Jan Smeets NED 2601

9-12 4.5 GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2779
GM Wang Yue CHN 2739
GM Michael Adams ENG 2712
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2725

13 4.0 GM Daniel Stellwagen NED 2612

14 3.5 GM Alexander Morozevich RUS 2771


Group GM B

1 6.5 GM Nigel Short ENG 2663

2-6 6.0 GM David Navara CZE 2638
GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2646
GM Andrei Volokitin UKR 2671
GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov UZB 2687
GM Alexander Motylev RUS 2676

7-8 5.5 GM Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2702
GM Zahar Efimenko UKR 2688

9 5.0 GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2603

10-11 4.0 WGM Hou Yifan CHN 2571
GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2549

12 3.5 GM Henrique Mecking BRA 2567

13-14 3.0 GM Jan Werle NED 2607
GM Krishnan Sasikiran IND 2711


Group GM C

1 7.5 GM Tiger Hillarp Persson SWE 2586

2 7.0 GM Wesley So PHI 2627

3 6.0 FM Anish Giri RUS 2469

3-7 5.5 GM Abhijeet Gupta IND 2569
WGM Dronavalli Harika IND 2473
GM Frank Holzke GER 2524
IM Manuel Bosboom NED 2418
GM David Howell ENG 2622

9 4.5 GM Eduardo Iturrizaga VEN 25282

10 4.0 GM Manuel Leon Hoyos MEX 2542

11-13 3.5 IM Ali Bitalzadeh NED 2400
GM Friso Nijboer NED 2560
IM Roeland Pruijssers NED 2444

14 3.0 GM Oleg Romanishin UKR 2533