Wijk aan Zee, Category XIX

[Javier]

The Wijk aan Zee will probably be one of the strongest tournaments this year.

Here's the list of participants:

 

GM      Veselin Topalov      BUL      2783      1
GM     Viswanathan Anand     IND     2779     2
GM     Vladimir Kramnik     RUS     2766     3
GM     Levon Aronian     ARM     2744     7 
GM     Teymour Radjabov     AZE     2729     11 
GM     Peter Svidler     RUS     2728     12 
GM     Ruslan Ponomariov     UKR     2723     14
GM     David Navara     CZE     2719     15
GM     Alexey Shirov     ESP     2715     17 
GM     Magnus Carlsen     NOR     2690     24 
GM     Loek van Wely     NED     2683     26
GM     Sergey Tiviakov     NED     2682     27 
GM     Sergey Karjakin     UKR     2678     29
GM     Alexander Motylev     RUS     2647     58

 

Average rating: 2719 – Category: 19

 

Frist round was rather dull, with all games ending in a draw except this one:

 

(2) Van Wely,L (2683) - Radjabov,T (2729) [E97]

Corus A Wijk aan Zee NED (1), 13.01.2007