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Anand Should
Look For His Sixth Title
By Arvind Aaron
The tenth
edition of the 100,000 Euro Corsica Masters is on in Bastia in France.
Viswanathan Anand will be looking for his sixth title this time. There are
many preliminary and open events happening prior to the festival and
ONGC's grandmasters, Krishnan Sasikiran, Sandipan Chanda and Neelotpal Das
are warming themselves.
Anand, the winner of the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 titles will be
looking forward to win the title he
lost to Vadim Milov of Biel, Switzerland in 2005. There is also a greater
Indian presence for the first time though Sasikiran had played there since
2003.
The main event is one large Swiss with semi-rapid controls. The top 16
players from the qualifier play the best of two rapid to decide who will
advance. The event happens before an audience of around 500
spectators with commentary over wireless headsets in French.
This year the main schedule is from Nov 4-7. The website to follow ishttp://www.opencorsica.com/versionhtml.html
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Published on : 01.11.2006
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