Pontus Carlsson to play in Corus C
GM Pontus Carlsson (Sweden)
Pontus Carlsson told The Chess Drum in a recent interview that he was slated to play in Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008 C-Group 11th-27th January 2008. This will be his inaugural visit to the prestigious tournament. The field will include (title, name, federation, birthyear, FIDE rating):
| GM | Evgenij Miroshnichenko | UKR | 1978 | 2647 |
| GM | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 1992 | 2598 |
| GM | Friso Nijboer | NED | 1965 | 2578 |
| IM | Arik Braun | GER | 1988 | 2536 |
| GM | Dimitri Reinderman | NED | 1972 | 2533 |
| GM | Parimarjan Negi | IND | 1993 | 2526 |
| GM | Efstratios Grivas | GRE | 1966 | 2509 |
| GM | Pontus Carlsson | SWE | 1982 | 2501 |
| GM | John van der Wiel | NED | 1959 | 2490 |
| WGM | Anna Ushenina | UKR | 1985 | 2484 |
| WGM | Irina Krush | USA | 1983 | 2473 |
| GM | Zhaoqin Peng | NED | 1968 | 2461 |
| IM | Mark van der Werf | NED | 1968 | 2389 |
| Dennis Ruijgrok | NED | 1985 | 2329 | |
| Average rating: 2503 Category: 11 | ||||
Running concurrently are Corus A (average ELO: 2742) and Corus B (average ELO: 2618). All eyes will be on Hou Yifan, the 13-year old Chinese sensation playing in Corus B.
Official Site: https://www.coruschess.com/
Dragoneers will be talking about this one…I wonder why Negi thought that he could play like this against an expert in the opening.
GM Pontus Carlsson is ” Player Of The Day ” at chessgames.com : 1-21-08.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=50058
The brotha is truly representing on the world stage. I hope he gets the opportunity to meet the two sistas from France that are great chess players.
Its too bad Pontus lost that dragon against Reinderman where he missed a tactic I had just been studying. Proves the needs to keep studying patterns. He didnt play Nf4 forking Queen and Rook. Where white plays Qc4 and Black plays Bd4!!! in response keeping an edge. He was probably in time pressure cause I am surely a lot weaker than he is. White recaptures the Bishop because of a fork and then Black plays Qc3!!!bam!!!!
Those sistas are international role models and are certainly awe inspiring. Recently, I have been attempting to follow the Cuban National Championship but it appears as if the internet traffic is being obstructed. There must be some strong sistas there perfecting their game.
Thanks, you are an amazing repository of knowledge. You had not made it clear before of your myriad travels, at lest to me. I had thought your info was obtained by primarily by email.But as an African people we have a rich tradition of passing on knowledge by word of mouth.
Amazing! Simply Amazing!