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Viswanathan Anand became the winner of the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee which took place January 13th-29th 2006. He shared the first place with Veselin Topalov but passed ahead by coefficients. We apologize to the World Champion for the wrong preliminary information about a tie-break between the winners. Participants of A tournament: Topalov Veselin g BUL 2801, Anand Viswanathan g IND 2792, Aronian Levon g ARM 2752, Leko Peter g HUN 2740, Ivanchuk Vassily g UKR 2729, Gelfand Boris g ISR 2723, Bacrot Etienne g FRA 2717, Mamedyarov Shakhriyar g AZE 2709, Adams Michael g ENG 2707, Sokolov Ivan g NED 2689, Kamsky Gata g USA 2686, Tiviakov Sergei g NED 2669, Karjakin Sergey g UKR 2660, Van Wely Loek g NED 2647.

We have received a statement of Vladimir Kramnik from his manager Carsten Hensel:
"I would like to inform the chess community that due to health problems I shall not be able to participate in the Corus Chess Tournament 2006. A couple of years ago a form of arthritis was diagnosed. This disease causes painful inflammation in the joints. Unfortunately since that time, the symptoms have started to appear more often and with greater severity. A new recent crises makes it necessary to undertake serious clinical treatment. Solving the present problem within a few months will allow me to come back and enjoy competitive chess at the highest level. I want to stress clearly, that - as always - I am eager to continue and enhance my chess career. There are still many goals to achieve."
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov has been included as Kramnik's replacement.

Round 1 : van Wely - Sokolov 1/2 Mamedyarov - Bacrot 1/2 Tiviakov - Adams 1/2 Topalov - Kamsky 1-0 Gelfand - Leko 1/2 Karjakin - Anand 0-1 Aronian - Ivanchuk 0-1		Round 2 Sokolov - Ivanchuk 0-1 Anand - Aronian 1/2 Leko - Karjakin 1/2 Kamsky - Gelfand 1-0 Adams - Topalov 1-0 Bacrot - Tiviakov 1-0 Van Wely - Mamedyarov 1/2		Round 3 Mamedyarov - Sokolov 1/2 Tiviakov - van Wely 1/2 Topalov - Bacrot 1-0 Gelfand - Adams 1-0 Karjakin - Kamsky 1-0 Aronian - Leko 1/2 Ivanchuk - Anand 0-1
Round 4 Sokolov - Anand 1/2 Leko - Ivanchuk 1/2 Kamsky - Aronian 0-1 Adams - Karjakin 1/2 Bacrot - Gelfand 0-1 Van Wely - Topalov 0-1 Mamedyarov - Tiviakov 1/2		Round 5 Tiviakov - Sokolov 1/2 Topalov - Mamedyarov 1/2 Gelfand - Van Wely 1/2 Karjakin - Bacrot 1-0 Aronian - Adams 1/2 Ivanchuk - Kamsky 1-0 Anand - Leko 1-0		Round 6 Sokolov - Leko 1/2 Kamsky - Anand 1-0 Adams - Ivanchuk 1-0 Bacrot - Aronian 1/2 Van Wely - Karjakin 1/2 Mamedyarov - Gelfand 1/2 Tiviakov - Topalov 1/2
Round 7 Topalov - Sokolov 1-0 Gelfand - Tiviakov 1/2 Karjakin - Mamedyarov 1-0 Aronian - van Wely 0-1 Ivanchuk - Bacrot 1/2 Anand - Adams 1/2 Leko - Kamsky 1-0		Round 8 Sokolov - Kamsky 1/2 Adams - Leko 1/2 Bacrot - Anand 0-1 Van Wely - Ivanchuk 1/2 Mamedyarov - Aronian 0-1 Tiviakov - Karjakin 1/2 Topalov - Gelfand 1/2		Round 9 Gelfand - Sokolov 1-0 Karjakin - Topalov 0-1 Aronian - Tiviakov 1/2 Ivanchuk - Mamedyarov 1/2 Anand - van Wely 1-0 Leko - Bacrot 1/2 Kamsky - Adams 0-1
Round 10 Sokolov - Adams 1/2 Bacrot - Kamsky 1-0 Van Wely - Leko 1-0 Mamedyarov - Anand 1/2 Tiviakov - Ivanchuk 1/2 Topalov - Aronian 1-0 Gelfand - Karjakin 1/2		Round 11 Karjakin - Sokolov 1-0 Aronian - Gelfand 1/2 Ivanchuk - Topalov 1/2 Anand - Tiviakov 1/2 Leko - Mamedyarov 1-0 Kamsky - van Wely 1-0 Adams - Bacrot 1/2		Round 12 Sokolov - Bacrot 1/2 Van Wely - Adams 1/2 Mamedyarov - Kamsky 0-1 Tiviakov - Leko 1/2 Topalov - Anand 1/2 Gelfand - Ivanchuk 1/2 Karjakin - Aronian 1/2
Round 13 Aronian - Sokolov 1-0 Ivanchuk - Karjakin 1-0 Anand - Gelfand 1-0 Leko - Topalov 1/2 Kamsky - Tiviakov 0-1 Adams - Mamedyarov 1/2 Bacrot - van Wely 1/2

Final standings:
1 Anand - 9.0
2 Topalov - 9.0
2 Anand - 9.0
3 Adams - 7.5
4 Ivanchuk - 7.5
5 Gelfand - 7.0
6 Karjakin - 7.0
7 Tiviakov - 6.5
8 Aronian - 6.5
9 Leko - 6.5
10 Van Wely - 6.0
11 Bacrot - 5.5
12 Kamsky - 4.5
13 Mamedyarov - 4.0
14 Sokolov - 4.0
We give the online annotations to some interesting games by Saint-Petersburg GMs .
Today GM Sergey Ivanov /Online/chess/Corus11e/online.html"> annotates online the games of the 11th round.
GM Sergey Ionov /Online/chess/Corus8/online.html"> annotated the games of the 8th round.
The round starts at 13-30 (+1 GMT) local time.
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Alexander Motylev (Russia) won the tournament B after tie-break vs Magnus Carlsen. Participants of B Tournament: Navara David g CZE 2660, Almasi Zoltan g HUN 2646, Motylev Alexander g RUS 2638, Vescovi Giovanni g BRA 2633, Beliavsky Alexander G g SLO 2626, Cheparinov Ivan g BUL 2625 , Carlsen Magnus g NOR 2625, Jobava Baadur g GEO 2614, Stellwagen Daniel g NED 2573, Nijboer Friso g NED 2571, Smeets Jan g NED 2550, L'Ami Erwin g NED 2550, Koneru Humpy g IND 2537, Lahno Kateryna m UKR 2500

Final standings:
1 Motylev - 9.0
2 Carlsen - 9.0
3 Almasi - 8.5
4 Jobava - 8.0
5 Navara - 7.5
6-8 Naiditsch, Cheparinov, L'Ami - 7.0
9 Beliavsky - 6.5
10-11 Vescovi, Koneru - 6.0
12 Smeets - 4.0
13 Stellwagen - 3.0
14 Lahno - 2.5
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