Corus Chess 2010

participants in the 2010 edition of the Corus  tournament

The 72nd Corus Chess 2010 tournament will be held from 15 January - 31 January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The winner of the event will qualify for the Grand Slam Final 2010.

Here are the participants lists.

Corus 2010

GM Viswanathan Anand, India GM Magnus Carlsen, Norway GM Vladimir Kramnik, Russia GM Peter Leko, Hungary GM Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukraine GM Hikaru Nakamura, USA GM Alexei Shirov, Spain GM Sergey Karjakin, Russia (winner of Corus last year) GM Leinier Dominguez Perez, Cuba GM Nigel Short, England GM Sergey Tiviakov, Netherlands GM Fabiano Caruana, Italy (winner of Corus B) GM Loek van Wely, Netherlands GM Jan Smeets, Netherlands

Corus B

GM Ni Hua, China GM Arkadij Naiditsch, Germany GM Emil Sutovsky, Israel GM Pentala Harikrishna, India GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Romania GM Wesley So, Philippines (winner of Corus C) GM Varuzhan Akobian, USA GM David Howell, England GM Parimarjan Negi, India GM Tomi Nyback, Finland GM Erwin l’Ami, Netherlands GM Dimitri Reinderman, Netherlands GM Anish Giri, Netherlands WGM Anna Muzychuk, Slovenia

Corus C

GM Li Chao B CHN GM Abhijeet Gupta IND GM Ray Robson USA GM Kjetil Lie NOR IM Nils Grandelius SWE GM Robin Swinkels NED GM Daniele Vocaturo ITA IM Robin van Kampen NED WGM Marya Muzychuk UKR GM Zhaoqin Peng NED FM Benjamin Bok NED FM Stefan Kuipers NED WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND Sjoerd Plukkel NED