Corus Chess update

Update

Kramnik - Van Wely (Draw)
Ivanchuk - Polgar (Draw)
Adams - Gelfand (Draw, what else)

In other interesting games in the other groups, Harikrishna was winning against Short but he seems to have messed up his winning chances. Same with Stellwagen and Li Chao, they both lost significant winning edges against Humpy and Irina Krush respectively.
Hou Yifan is putting up a good show against the 2700 Bacrot. A draw is still possible although Bacrot is piling on the pressure now.
The other prodigy Negi is almost equal against Sweden's Pontus Carlsson.

Radjabov wins - earlier Jakovenko, Radjabov, Grischuk, Karjakin in ACP rapid

Update:
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Radjabov won the ACP world rapid chess championship. He beat Grischuk 2.5-1.5 in the final.
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The semi-finalists in the world cup rapid championships were spotted. Jakovenko beat giant-killer Inarkiev, Radjabov upset Ivanchuk, Grishchuk defeated Svidler and Karjakin eliminated Gelfand.

In a tournament graced by ex-world champion Karpov and Judit Polgar, who lost earlier, the youngsters are surely grabbing the limelight.

Results of the Quarterfinals:

Jakovenko, Dmitry vs Inarkiev, Ernesto 1.5-0.5
Radjabov, Teimour vs Ivanchuk, Vassily 3-2
Svidler, Peter vs Grischuk, Alexander 0.5-1.5
Karjakin, Sergey vs Gelfand, Boris 3-1

Corus Chess GM Group A

The focus will obviously be on the Kramnik - Anand rivarly and now that they are tied for the top spot in the world with exactly the same ELO points, this tournament will more or less serve as a tie-break.

Topalov has lost a lot of the headlines to the top two, so he'll probably grab this chance to try and get some. Carlsen, Mamedyarov, and the ever dangerous Judit Polgar are others to watch.

The Group A of the Corus Chess Tournaments reads like a Who's who in chess.
Here's the list updated with the January 2008 Ratings. Note that Ivanchuk for example, appears second but is ninth in the world because he slipped by the time the Corus tournament was announced and the Ratings list was updated. Same with Leko and Aronian too and so on. Kramnik moved up.

World Rank, Name, Country, Rating

GM Group A

1 GM Viswanathan Anand India 2799
9 GM Vassily Ivanchuk Ukraine 2751
1 GM Vladimir Kramnik Russia 2799
3 GM Veselin Topalov Bulgaria 2780
8 GM Peter Leko Hungary 2753
6 GM Shakryar Mamedyarov Azerbaijan 2760
12 GM Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 2735
10 GM Levon Aronian Armenia 2739
11 GM Boris Gelfand Israel 2737
16 GM Michael Adams England 2726
13 GM Magnus Carlsen Norway 2733
22 GM Judit Polgar Hungary 2707
27 GM Pavel Eljanov Ukraine 2692
35 GM Loek Van Wely The Netherlands 2681

XVII Torneo Internacional Ciudad De Pamplona Chess

The games of the Seventeenth edition of the Internation Ciudad De Pamplona started on 22 December 2007. There are several strong grand masters participating in this event.

The main players in order of their ratings are:

1 GM WANG Yue 2703 CHN
2 GM SARGISSIAN Gabriel 2673 ARM
3 GM MOVSESIAN Sergei 2670 SVK
4 GM VALLEJO PONS Francisco 2660 ESP
5 GM BELIAVSKY Alexander G 2646 SLO
6 GM JOBAVA Baadur 2644 GEO
7 GM RODSHTEIN Maxim 2615 ISR
8 GM KHAMRAKULOV Ibragim S 2604 ESP

The previous top three of this popular event are:

Year, First place, Second Place, Third Place

1990 Leonid Yudasin Viktor Korchnoi Zsuzsa Polgar
1991 Leonid Yudasin Miguel Illescas Zsuzsa Polgar
1992 Joel Lautier Miguel Illescas David García
1993 Jordi Magem Andrei Sokolov Felix Izeta
1994 Alexander Morozevich Vadim Zvjaginsev Jordi Magem
1995 Jordi Magem Julio Granda Miguel Illescas
1996 Zoltan Almasi Jonathan Speelman Zurab Azmaiparashvili
1997 Miguel Illescas Ulf Anderson Julio Granda
1998 Alexander Morozevich Michal Krasenkov Loek Van Welly
1999 Nigel Short Boris Gelfand Zoltan Almasi
2001 Viktor Bologan Teimour Radjabov Zoltan Almasi
2002 Rustam Kasimdzhanov Viktor Bologan Paco Vallejo
2003 Miguel Illescas Luke McShane Emil Sutovsky
2004 Boris Gelfand Segei Karjakin Lázaro Bruzón
2005 Ruslan Ponomariov P. Harikrishna Ivan Cheparinov
2006 Alexander Morozevich Dmitry Jakovenko Alexei Shirov