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Anand In Wijk Aan Zee 2008
By Arvind Aaron
Five-time champion Viswanathan Anand will play in the Corus Chess
Tournament at Wijk aan Zee from January 2008 and the field includes five
of the world's top six rated players. It will be a category 20 event.
Anand, 37, is a record five time champion of this event. It is good news
that the event is taking place despite Tata Steel taking over this major
steel company which is based at United Kingdon and the Netherlands.
The list of players: 1 V.Anand (Ind), 2 V.Ivanchuk (Ukr), 3 V,Kramnik (Rus),
4 V.Topalov (Bul), 5 P.Leko (Hun), 6 S.Mamedyarov (Aze), 7 T.Radjabov (Aze),
8 L.Aronian (Arm), 9 B.Gelfand (Isr), 10 M.Adams (Eng), 11 M.Carlsen
(Nor), 12 Judit Polgar (Hun), 13 P.Eljanov (Ukr) 14 Loek Van Wely (Ned).
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