Monday, January 25, 2010

Carlsen vs Kramnik, Ivanchuk vs Shirov


Corus round 9

Group A

The biggest matchups in in this round (Tuesday) for group A will be Carlsen vs. Kramnik, Ivanchuk vs. Shirov, and Nakamura vs. Karjakin.

S. Tiviakov - V. Anand
J. Smeets - F. Caruana
L. van Wely - P. Leko
N. Short - L. Dominguez
H. Nakamura - S. Karjakin
M. Carlsen - V. Kramnik
V. Ivanchuk - A. Shirov

Group B

D. Howell - E. l'Ami
A. Muzychuk - A. Giri
A. Naiditsch - T. Nyback
W. So - E. Sutovsky
V. Akobian - Ni
P. Negi - D. Reinderman
P. Harikrishna - L. Nisipeanu

Group C

In this group, the biggest matchup is obviously Chao vs. Robson, the battle for the lead.

Z. Peng - S. Swaminathan
B. Bok - S. Kuipers
D. Vocaturo - M. Muzychuk
S. Plukkel - R. Swinkels
L. Chao - R. Robson
R. van Kampen - A. Gupta
K. Lie - N. Grandelius