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Where did you get this info? I thought he was ready for a match with Kramnik as early as Nov. That's the official stand thro' his manager.

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I visited DD after posting this. Hence ignore the question.

I suppose Anand and Leko will both be wanting to prove themselves this time, while it's up to Topalov to prove himself a worthy champion.

Actually the field is full of players who'll need to prove themselves, like Ivanchuk, Kramnik and Adams... 

This might be an even better tournament than San Luis!

Will be interesting to see some Tiviakov dragons against the top players, maybe he will play some of Dearing's recommendations

I am rooting for King Loek. In recent times Van Wely has stopped becoming the sitting duck in these elite events, and has obtained respectable scores. There is nowhere to go but up anyway. 

Aronian and Bacrot are about my age so hope that they do well too. I  suspect this tournament will be the start of a new world order in chess, with many older players like Adams, Ivanchuk, Kamsky and Gelfand making way for the younger ones

I wonder why Svidler, Polgar, Morozevich and Kasimjanov weren't invited or chose not to participate, was the list made before the San Luis tournament?

Also, the timing of this tournament is going to be very interesting if a match between Topalov and Kramnik is going to be in the works during the tournament.  I imagine that both parties will want a date set for their match before the end of the year so that FIDE can come in and screw it up.


Errr, I mean "so that FIDE can re-schedule its world championship cycle."  That doesn't sound much better, does it?   

There are still so many questions that need to be answered, maybe Corus will see a lot of back-room finagling and someone other than Kramnik or Topalov will win.  (Notice that Anand has the highest FIDE rating in this list!)

This is going to be a fascinating tournament, as there are a few participants who want to settle some things - like not being invited for San Luis. A few others, who did, will want to challenge Topalov's supremacy. I smell blood!

This IS an interesting lineup.  It will be quite interesting to see how Ivanchuk performs--he's had a very good year, but has been absent from the topflight tournaments for awhile.  And Kamsky's return should be worth watching (though I suspect he'll keep drawing--he seems to have lost that killer instinct).  And this could be Karjakin's entry into the top level.  All good...

Yes, I know. It's long until the tournament starts, but I think the list of participants in group A is very interesting.

Name Country Rating Position 
 
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2788 2 
GM Veselin Topalov BUL 2782 3 
GM Peter Leko HUN 2751 4 
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2748 5 
GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2739 7 
GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2725 9 
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2724 10 
GM Michael Adams ENG 2718 12 
GM Boris Gelfand ISR 2717 13 
GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2700 20 
GM Ivan Sokolov NED 2696 21 
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2690 23 
GM Sergey Karjakin UKR 2658 44 
GM Loek van Wely NED 2648 55 

Will Topalov do another great tournament? How about Ivanchuk and Kramnik, who didn't play in San Luis? Aronian is a player who has increased his rating. (I wish Naiditsch was playing too.) Also interesting to see how Kamsky will perform.