Chess tournament Corus

The chess tournament Corus takes place every years, usually in January, in the small town of Wijk aan Zee with the Netherlands. It was called Hoogovens tournament before the group sponsored Corus it as from 2000. From 1938 to 1967, it took place with Beverwijk.

Although the principal tournament, known as tournament “has”, is reserved to the players of the world elite, Corus also accommodates players of less level in the tournaments “B” and “C”.

The participation in the tournaments is on invitation, the winner of the tournament B being traditionally invited tournament At the following year. The current formula of the 3 tournaments is it simple-round, each one meeting once the 13 other players.

Since 1938, the list of the winners contains prestigious names: max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim To freeze, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Kortchnoï, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. In fact, world champions since the Second world war, only miss Vassily Smyslov and Bobby Fischer.

History

Winners of the tournament has since 1996:

1996: Vasily Ivanchuk
1997 : Valery Salov
1998 : Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
1999: Garry Kasparov
2000 : Garry Kasparov
2001 : Garry Kasparov
2002 : Evgeny Bareev
2003 : Viswanathan Anand
2004 : Viswanathan Anand
2005 : Peter Lékó
2006: Veselin Topalov and Viswanathan Anand
2007: Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov

Big events of the last editions

The year 1999 is remarkable thanks to a famous victory of Kasparov against Topalov, masterpiece considered as one of the most beautiful parts of all times.

In 2000, Garry Kasparov gained the tournament with 1,5 in advance point.

In 2001,9 of the 10 best world players took part.

In 2003, Anand gained with 8,5/13, in front of Judit Polgár, the best world player.

In 2004, Viswanathan Anand, with 8,5/13, also finishes first, in front of Peter Lékó and Michael Adams with 8/13. The same year also saw the young Norwegian wonder Magnus Carlsen (born on November 30th, 1990) gaining the tournament C.

In 2006, the tournament has is gained by Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen finishing 1st equal tournament B.

In 2007, Veselin Topalov carries out the master key of two by gaining the tournament once again, with equality with Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov, which, at 19 years, becomes the youngest winner of the history of the tournament.

External bonds

Official site
Left the previous years
List of gaining preceding the

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