Corus Chess Tournament, January 2005

Man... would like nothing more than to see DrawBoy go down in frames. What a tremendous tool.

I think Adams is the dark-horse here. He's looking sharp. Short looked super-sharp with Re5!! against Morozevich. Second half of the tourny Kramnik should wake up. Leko is looking great. Topalov I thought would do really well, until Adams shut him down. Hear Kasparov on Morozevich's poor performance at the russian super GM tourny? "Well, he's not playing 'George' anymore" LOL. He's certainly getting pounded at Corus as well.

Originally posted by gambit3
Is there a reason why Kasparov is not playing in this tournament?

Yes that was the reason. Short always has to mess up after a nice win, doesn't he. He was 'doing it' for a while there. 🙁

Standings after round 6: grandmaster group A
1. L. Bruzon
V. Topalov
P. Leko
M. Adams 4
5. A. Grischuk
V. Kramnik
V. Anand 3½
8. J. Polgar
R. Ponomariov
L. van Wely 3
11. N. Short 2½
12. I. Sokolov 2
13. P. Svidler 1½
14. A. Morozevich ½

Topalov. Can't crack a smile but he's winning. At leat everyone is fighting in this tourny. Short pulled out another win. rock and roll.

Go go Topalov go ... don't let me down ..... 🙂

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Kasparov: "Perhaps the last straw was watching the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee currently underway in the Netherlands. I was forced to give up my invitation to play in this event when FIDE insisted that the match would take place in Dubai on conflicting dates. It breaks my heart to watch such a great event from the sidelines. It hurts me, and I believe ...[text shortened]...
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2145

( Kasparov to FIDE: Enough is enough)

Originally posted by flexmore
the olympics can be the saviour ... do not give up .. they may take chess on yet ... patience and determination ... the olympics can overcome this farce.

Veselin Topalov and Peter Leko both at 6/9, only four more rounds to go.

Originally posted by WestWood
Veselin Topalov and Peter Leko both at 6/9, only four more rounds to go.

Leko leads the field by a full point with 2 rounds left!

Leko is leading now with Topalov down.
In group B my favorite was and is Sergey Karjakin

Leko wins.Anand finishes 1/2 point behind.Sergey Karjakin wins GM B.

Originally posted by LordOfTheChessboard
I'll put my bet on leko to win this tournament since he defeated anand who was my favorate.