I hope Anish Giri wins the A-group in2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Karjakin also seems always to be in a healthy and very nice mood. He 's a big K.................................

I was just now watching the games of the 13th round live. I think Dominguez against Karjakin has got a strong position after 23.Bd3 or even after 24.b4. I think it was then necessary to act rapidly because the position was complicated, and Karjakin was very conscious of the position and was making good defensive moves! After Black's 24.....Qb6 for example, it seems it was urgent do exchange the Black's defending Bishop at g6, for example: 25.Bxg6..fxg6 26.O-O-O...Qxb4 27.Qxg6...Qb2+ 28.Kd2...Rfd2+ 29.Ke2...Rxd1 30.Rxd1 and now White would have a big advantage because the Black's knight and bishop are pined, the black queen has no where to go and the Black's rook had no column to play, and White would be eventually threatening Bxf6 wining. I see difficult defense for this. It seems Dominguez managed to find a good attack, but this time the situation was more complicated and he probably was in time trouble...A really dramatic decisive game..! Congrats to Karjakin stubborn defense and agile grasp of his wining chances!!! Excellent Tournament Corus 2009!!

Great that Karjakin won the tournament, he fully deserved it with his attractive and sometimes gambling play...a real gem for chess!
But what about he 250 euro award from Sokolov..i gather he makes more money handing it out than the winner gets...besides that we have much more friendly and erudite chessplayers (with humour)! Why not Sosonko or Ree or vd Wiel ... we all know Sokolov is just in for the euro's!

I do welcome the fact that Corus invites Dutch chessplayers in the various grandmaster groups, but lets be fair they didn't show too much besides some well battled draws and an ocassional win. Only van Wely seems to be playing for wins against the top players and he sure deserves honour. Let's face it grandmaster group A would have been a lot more vivid if e.g Shirov and Polgar would have joined in. Let the Dutchies win the B-group first before they join the A, (besides King Loek)

Congrats Karjakin on winning the tournament!!

May the recent triumph of GM Wesley So in the 2009 Corus C Wijk ann Zee further encourage other equally ambitious Filipino chessplayers to bring glories to our country through chess craftmanship. And may the National Chess Federation of the Philippines will further conduct chess related activities for the betterment of the Filipino chessplayers in order for them to be globally competitive in the near future. For all chessplayers of the Philippines, let us all salute GM So for his latest achievement as he deserves such an accolade from all of us as a nation! Good luck GM So for your Corus Group B competition in 2010!