 The Corus Line-up
Get ready for the biggest event of the year, as the 71st Corus Chess tournament takes place Saturday, January 17th to Sunday, February 1st, 2009 in its spiritual home of Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands.
Despite the absence of world champion Viswanathan Anand, challenger Vladimir Kramnik and World Number one Veselin Topalov, there's still a strong line-up for the Grandmaster 'A' group with Alexander Morozevich, Vassily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov being favorites for the first major of the year.
And if that doesn't whet your appetite, then there's more: the Grandmaster 'B' Group includes former World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan), former world championship challenger Nigel Short and former World Championship Candidate Henrique Mecking (Brazil).
The Grandmaster 'C' group features former top star Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine) and the young GM Eduardo Iturrizaga (Venezuela), who qualified late last year from an ICC Online Qualifier.
All rounds start at 7:30am ET (1:30pm CET local) except for last round at 6:30am ET (12:30pm CET local), with the rest days being Jan. 21st, 26th & 29th.
ICC Chess.FM will have unrivaled coverage throughout, with our special opening day commentator on Saturday, January 17th being none other than five-time Russian champion Peter Svidler! Also joining Mig Greengard will be the usual team GM team of Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Nick De Firmian, John Federowicz, Ronen Har-Zvi and Gregory Kaidanov.
And direct from the press room at Corus Wijk aan Zee, reporting for Chess.FM will be American Chess Journalist of the Year, Macauley Peterson, who will be giving us his video spin of all the action that can be found at the Chess.FM Blog.
Join ICC now to listen to all the action each day live as it happens, when it happens with our unrivaled GM commentary team - and get the chance to take part in three exciting competitions to win major chess prizes with the New In Chess Trivia contest, The GOTD Trivia contest, and the Everyman Chess Corus Call-in contest.
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In 2008, some of the top GM guests who have appeared on Chess Talk with IM John Watson included Joel Benjamin, Simen Agdestein, Fabiano Caruana, Lev Alburt, Gregory Kaidanov, Genna Sosonko, Varuzhan Akobian, Nigel Short, Peter Heine Nielsen, Yuri Shulman and Jan Gustafsson.
And in 2009, John's weekly 60+min show will have many more leading chess personalities to interview. And all shows run on demand for members after airing, so as an ICC member you have a whole video vault of interviews you can listen to going back to 2007.
This week (Tue., Jan 13), joining IM John Watson for the first Chess Talk of 2009 will be Daniel Lucas, Publications Director of the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) and editor of Chess Life.
Before taking up his post as editor of Chess Life in 2006, Dan had been editor for seven years of Georgia Chess, the multi-award winning Best State Magazine by the Cramer Committee/Chess Journalists of America (CJA). Dan is also a past president of the CJA.
Latest Show Preview: Daniel Lucas 01.13.09
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En Passant: It is with deep regret John Watson informs us that one of his recent guests, Calvin Olsen, Chess Teacher, Correspondence Master and Historian, died recently at his home in Vallejo, California. His book, The Chess Kings Volume One is the result of 30 years of studying chess, followed by 10 years of research and writing.
As a special tribute to Calvin, we're also showing free to non-members his interview from late November of last year. Please click here to listen.
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