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The Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens tournament until 1999 after which the Dutch steel and aluminium producer Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Group on 6 October 1999. From 1938 to 1967, the tournament took place in Beverwijk.

While it is true that very strong chess players compete in the prestigious tournament, regular club players are welcome to play as well. The top 'A' section pits 14 of the world's best against each other in a round-robin tournament. Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov. In fact, of the "Classical" world chess champions since World War II, only the names of Vassily Smyslov and Bobby Fischer are missing. In 2001, nine of the top ten players in the world participated.

Viswanathan Anand is the only player to have won five titles of the Hoogovens/Corus chess tournament in its long history, though three of these were shared wins. Anand also holds the record of most consecutive games played at this tournament without a loss (70 — from 1998–2004). Max Euwe, Lajos Portisch and Viktor Korchnoi won Corus four times each.

Contents 1 Tournament History 2 Complete Results 2.1 2007 Results 3 External links

Winners of the Grandmaster A group since 1980 have been:

Hoogovens tournament

• 1980 - Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan
• 1981 - Genna Sosonko and Jan Timman
• 1982 - John Nunn and Yuri Balashov
• 1983 - Ulf Andersson
• 1984 - Alexander Beliavsky and Viktor Korchnoi
• 1985 - Jan Timman
• 1986 - Nigel Short
• 1987 - Nigel Short and Viktor Korchnoi
• 1988 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1989 - Viswanathan Anand, Predrag Nikolic, Zoltan Ribli and Gyula Sax
• 1990 - John Nunn
• 1991 - John Nunn
• 1992 - Boris Gelfand and Valery Salov
• 1993 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1994 - Predrag Nikolic
• 1995 - Alexey Dreev
• 1996 - Vassily Ivanchuk
• 1997 - Valery Salov
• 1998 - Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
• 1999 - Garry Kasparov

Corus tournament

• 2000 - Garry Kasparov
• 2001 - Garry Kasparov
• 2002 - Evgeny Bareev
• 2003 - Viswanathan Anand
• 2004 - Viswanathan Anand
• 2005 - Péter Lékó
• 2006 - Veselin Topalov and Viswanathan Anand
• 2007 - Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov

In 2007, the finals positions were:[1]

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Corus A Wijk aan Zee NED (NED), 13-28 i 2007                cat. XIX (2718)
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 1. Aronian, Levon       g ARM 2744  * = 1 = = = = 1 1 = 1 = = =  8.5  2825 
 2. Topalov, Veselin     g BUL 2783  = * = = 1 0 = = 1 = = 1 1 1  8.5  2822 
 3. Radjabov, Teimour    g AZE 2729  0 = * = = = 1 = = 1 1 1 = 1  8.5  2827 
 4. Kramnik, Vladimir    g RUS 2766  = = = * 1 = = = = = = 1 = 1  8.0  2801 
 5. Anand, Viswanathan   g IND 2779  = 0 = 0 * 1 = 1 = 1 = 1 = =  7.5  2770 
 6. Svidler, Peter       g RUS 2728  = 1 = = 0 * = 0 = 1 1 0 1 =  7.0  2746 
 7. Navara, David        g CZE 2719  = = 0 = = = * 0 1 = = 1 1 0  6.5  2717 
 8. Karjakin, Sergey     g UKR 2678  0 = = = 0 1 1 * 0 = = = = 1  6.5  2721 
 9. Ponomariov, Ruslan   g UKR 2723  0 0 = = = = 0 1 * = = = 1 =  6.0  2688 
10. Motylev, Alexander   g RUS 2647  = = 0 = 0 0 = = = * = = = =  5.0  2636 
11. Tiviakov, Sergei     g NED 2667  0 = 0 = = 0 = = = = * = = =  5.0  2634 
12. Van Wely, Loek       g NED 2683  = 0 0 0 0 1 0 = = = = * = 1  5.0  2633 
13. Carlsen, Magnus      g NOR 2690  = 0 = = = 0 0 = 0 = = = * =  4.5  2610 
14. Shirov, Alexei       g ESP 2715  = 0 0 0 = = 1 0 = = = 0 = *  4.5  2608 
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• Corus chess tournament official website
• List of all winners 1938-2007, and full cross-tables from 1952 to 2007