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Corus Chess: Levon Aronyan vs. Wang Yu
17.01.2009 16:26 GMT+04:00

/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).