Wijk Aan Zee 2007

The traditionnal Wijk Aan Zee Chess Tournament aka Corus Chess will be held from 12-28 January 2007 in the Netherlands .
Already known as the strongest tournament of 2007 , six out of the ten best rated chess players have confirmed their participation .

Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2813, 1)
Viswanathan Anand (India, 2779, 2)
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2750, 3)
Peter Svidler (Russia, 2750, 4)
Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 2747, 5)
Levon Aronian (Armenië, 2741, 7)
Teymour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2729, 11)
Alexey Shirov (Spain, 2720, 14)
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 2703, 20)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2698, 21)
Sergey Tiviakov (The Netherlands, 2680, 27)
Loek van Wely (The Netherlands, 2676, 29)
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 2672, 35)
Alexander Motylev (Russia, 2662, 44)

By the way , where is Gata Kamsky ?

Note that it will the first meeting on the board between Kramnik and Topalov since the last world championship .


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