Wijk aan Zee 2008 started. The Armageddon has occured at the first day!

Anand,V lost to Radjabov,T with black pieces, Aronjan,L defeated Topalov,V. The young prodigy Magnus Carlsen took the full point from Shakhriar Mamedjarov. The games Adams-Gelfand, Ivanchuk-Polgar, Kramnik-van Wely and Eljanov-Leko all were drawn without great incident.

Live games

 

Today games are start in 19:00 local time.

Tornament is inflaming. tournament position is changing. Smirin got stuck on Gyimesi in exchange variant "Old Indian Defence". He went through the bad ending to him and lost. Postny vs Roiz hard fite which ended with peace. Avrukh suarely break Kogan in Queen's gambit. Rodshtein vs Macieja. Accurate play from both sides and draw agreement. Moiseenko, after is geting advantage in oppening +1 pawn  got a full point from Khenkin.

Tournament position after round 6:

1-3 Smirin, Postny, Avrukh, (4 points)

4-5 Roiz, Gyimesi (3.5 points)

6    Moiseenko (3points)

7-8 Rodshtein, Khenkin (2.5 points)

9    Macieja (2 points)

10  Kogan (1 point)

      

Live games

 

Games start in 10:00 local time.

Khenkin vs Avrukh 13 moves draw. Arthur Kogan was close to win, but Gyimesi Zoltan find a way out of 1/2. Mecieja,B could couple times to get huge advantage, but missed his chances. The only hero of the day was Evgeny Postny. He outplayed with black's pieces Max Rodshtein in interesting line of Slav-defence. Smirin vs Roiz short draw. Postny and Smirin leading with 3.5 out of 5 points.

Tournament table after round 5

No	Name	Country	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	Place
1	Roiz,Michael	ISR	2659	x				½	½	½		½	1	3
2	Moiseenko,Aleksander	UKR	2643		x	0	½	½		½	½			2
3	Avrukh,Boris	ISR	2628		1	x	0	1		½		½		3
4	Postny,Evgeny	ISR	2627		½	1	x		0	1			1	3½
5	Macieja,Bartolmiej	POL	2617	½	½	0		x			½			1½
6	Smirin,Ilia	ISR	2616	½			1	1	x			½	1	4
7	Rodshtein,Maxim	ISR	2614	½	½	½	0			x	½			2
8	Gyimesi,Zoltan	HUN	2605		½			½		½	x	½	½	2½
9	Khenkin,Igor	GER	2602	½		½			½		½	x	½	2½
10	Kogan,Arthur	ISR	2591	0			0		0		½	½	x	1

 

live games

 

Gyimesi,Zoltan-Khenkin,Igor short 19 move draw. Avrukh,Boris outplayed Macieja,Bartlomeij 1-0. Michael Roiz showed his knowledge ending bishop against knightwith Queens in open position and won his game Roiz, Michael-Kogan, Arthur 1-0.
and the most interesting game was dispute of two leaders Postny,Evgeny vs Smirin Ilia in Old indian defence with one of the popular lines 9.b4 for white. Smirin get off the opening slightly better and take up to win. Postny, Evgeny-Smirin,Ilia 0-1

live games

 

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.