Smirin catch up Postny. Today he has choosen a rare for nowdays sharp line of Polugaevsky in Najdorf variant of Sicilian.
Kogan, Arthur-Smirin, Ilia 0-1. Postny tried to outplay Moiseenko, Aleksandr in Slav defence with one pawn more, but white's conterplay was too strong and game finished by repetition of moves and draw. Other games were drawn.

Live games

Evgeny, Postny take a solo lead in tournament with second win over Kogan, Arthur in very sharp line of "accepted Queen's Gambit". Avrukh, Boris comes back after defeating over Moiseenko, Aleksander. other three games drawn.

live games

The Corus chess tournament 2008 will be held from 11-27 january 2008 in Wijk aan Zee. It has three mane tournaments: (A, B, C). They are played according to the "round robin" system. All three GM groups have 14 players. Group A is strongest, category 20 and 2742! average rating. This year tournament including almost all strongest GM's.

preview Wijk aan Zee 2008(video)

Round 1

The first round showed us all fighting games but only two were fruitful.
Avrukh, Boris - Postny, Evgeny 0-1 and Macieja, Bartlomiej - Smirin, Ilia 0-1
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live games

Tournament takes place in Maalot (North Israel) 7-15 january 2008. This closed tournament with "round robin" system, which involve 10 players. Almost all players are higher than 2600 rating. Category: 15.
all games are starting in 15:00 local time.