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Corus Group A (2000) The inaugural Corus tournament (which resulted when the main sponsor Hoogovens merged with British Steel) was held in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands from January 15 (Round 1) to January 30 (Round 13). Rest days: January 17, 21 and 26. Fourteen top grandmasters, including the world champion Garry Kasparov, competed in a round robin format in the prestigous A event. The participants were (in order of Elo): Garry Kasparov (Elo ranked as #1 in the world), Viswanathan Anand (#2), Vladimir Kramnik (#3), Alexander Morozevich (#5), Peter Leko (#6), Michael Adams (#7), Nigel Short (#15), Viktor Korchnoi (#28), Predrag Nikolic (#29), Judit Polgar (#30), Jan Timman (#32), Loek van Wely (#35), Jeroen Piket (#43), and Smbat Lputian (#79). Kasparov won his second Wijk aan Zee tournament in a row, undefeated with 9.5/13. Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, 15-30 January 2000 Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 1 Kasparov 36 2851 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 9½ =2 Kramnik 24 2758 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 8 =2 Leko 20 2725 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8 =2 Anand 30 2769 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8 5 Morozevich 22 2748 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 7½ 6 Adams 28 2715 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 7 =7 Piket 31 2633 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 1 0 0 1 ½ 6½ =7 Timman 48 2655 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6½ 9 Nikolic 39 2659 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6 10 Short 34 2683 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 5½ =11 Polgar 23 2658 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 0 ½ 5 =11 Korchnoi 68 2659 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 1 5 13 Lputian 41 2605 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 * ½ 4½ 14 Van Wely 27 2646 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * 4 Category: XVIII (2697). First prize: 20,000 Dutch guilders. Wikipedia article: Tata Steel Chess Tournament#2000 TWIC #273 (http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic...) FIDE rating list January 2000 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo200...) Wijk aan Zee 2000: Corus at ChessGML (http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/samp...) Kjell Krantz in Tidskrift för Schack, March 2000, pp. 172-177 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/2000...) Lubomir Kavalek in The Washington Post, 31 January 2000 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...) Robert Eugene Byrne in New York Times, 13 February 2000 (https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/...) Thomas Ernst in Tidskrift för Schack, February 2000, pp. 100-105 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/2000...) Original collection: Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2000, by User: suenteus po 147. Previous: Hoogovens Group A (1999). Next: Corus Group A (2001). See also Corus Group B (2000) and Corus Reserve Group (2000)  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 91  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Kramnik vs Adams 1-0 49 2000 Corus Group A E15 Queen's Indian 2. Korchnoi vs Kasparov 0-1 54 2000 Corus Group A D85 Grunfeld 3. Timman vs Anand ½-½ 42 2000 Corus Group A E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) 4. Polgar vs Van Wely   ½-½ 42 2000 Corus Group A B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 5. Lputian vs Piket   0-1 46 2000 Corus Group A E97 King's Indian 6. P Nikolic vs Short   ½-½ 35 2000 Corus Group A D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 7. Leko vs Morozevich   ½-½ 31 2000 Corus Group A B32 Sicilian 8. Adams vs Polgar ½-½ 27 2000 Corus Group A B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 9. Anand vs P Nikolic 1-0 40 2000 Corus Group A A90 Dutch 10. Lputian vs Timman 0-1 61 2000 Corus Group A A34 English, Symmetrical 11. Morozevich vs Kramnik   ½-½ 16 2000 Corus Group A C42 Petrov Defense 12. Piket vs Kasparov ½-½ 41 2000 Corus Group A D97 Grunfeld, Russian 13. Short vs Leko   ½-½ 41 2000 Corus Group A A07 King's Indian Attack 14. Van Wely vs Korchnoi 0-1 55 2000 Corus Group A D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 15. Korchnoi vs Adams   ½-½ 22 2000 Corus Group A E15 Queen's Indian 16. Timman vs Piket 0-1 28 2000 Corus Group A A50 Queen's Pawn Game 17. Polgar vs Morozevich 0-1 36 2000 Corus Group A C11 French 18. P Nikolic vs Lputian   ½-½ 40 2000 Corus Group A D55 Queen's Gambit Declined 19. Leko vs Anand   ½-½ 27 2000 Corus Group A C42 Petrov Defense 20. Kramnik vs Short 1-0 32 2000 Corus Group A D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 21. Kasparov vs Van Wely 1-0 25 2000 Corus Group A B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 22. Timman vs P Nikolic   ½-½ 27 2000 Corus Group A E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 23. Short vs Polgar   1-0 40 2000 Corus Group A B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 24. Piket vs Van Wely ½-½ 11 2000 Corus Group A D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. Lputian vs Leko 0-1 37 2000 Corus Group A A15 English  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 91    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Jun-27-19    me to play: A bit surprised to find no comments for this page! 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