Corus Chess: Levon Aronyan vs. Wang Yu

January 17, 2009 - 16:26 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronyan will meet with Chinese chess player Wang Yu in the 1st round of Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee.



Sergei Movsisyan, member of Slovak team, will play against Dutch grandmaster Daniel Stellwagen.



The Corus Chess Tournament has three main tournaments. They are played according to the 'round robin' system, whereby each competitor plays in turn against every other during the tournament. All three Grandmaster groups have 14 players and start on January 17.



Aronyan is included in Group A along with Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan), Vasily Ivanchuk, Sergei Karyakin (Ukraine), Michael Adams (UK), Alexadner Morozevich (Russia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Leinier Dominguez (Cuba), Sergei Movsisyan (Slovakia), Loek van Wely (Netherlands).
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