by Pinoychess.informe.com TeamAt last! An invitation from a strong European chess tourney for GM Wesley So!GM Wesley So accepted the invitation by Jeroen van den Berg, the Director of Corus Chess Tournament, to join the prestigious 2009 Corus Chess Tournament which will run from January 15 to February 1 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.This chess breaking news was relayed to Pinoychess.informe.com by
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One of the most important chess tournaments is starting today at 13:30 local time. Here are the pairings:
Corus A:
Kramnik - Van Wely
Radjabov - Anand
Mamedyarov - Carlsen
Eljanov - Leko
Adams - Gelfand
Aronian - Topalov
Ivanchuk - Polgar
Corus B:
Harikrishna - Short
Hou - Bacrot
Stellwagen -...
So far we know that Serbian GM Aleksa Strikovic, rated 2567, will play in the "C" group. Strikovic just won the Serbian team championship with his club Beograd Beopublikum.
Update, 19th September:
GM Nigel Short will play in Corus "B" tournament. He won the main event back in 1986 and 1987.
Dividends Matter reader Brian has requested that we have a look at another financial during this sub prime turmoil. Corus Bankshares Inc which trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol CORS is up next. Hold on to your hats for this one. This stock currently has a dividend yield of 7.20%! Could this be another member of our portfolio of superior dividend yielding stocks? Let’s find out.
Company Profile:
From Yahoo Finance
Corus Bankshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Corus Bank, N.A. that offers consumer and corporate banking products and services. The bank’s deposit products include checking, savings, money market, and time deposit accounts. Its loan portfolio primarily comprises commercial real estate loans, including condominium construction and condominium conversion loans; commercial loans; and residential real estate loans. The bank focuses its lending activities in various metropolitan areas in Florida and California, as well as in Las Vegas, New York C
Tata Steel Ltd. announced that it has completed the £6.2 billion acquisition of Corus Group plc at a price of 608 pence per ordinary share in cash. The enlarged company will have a crude steel production of 27 million tonnes in 2007 and will be the world’s fifth largest steel producer with 84,000 employees across four continents. Corus' top management will continue with the enlarged Group. Visit Bangalore Property News
After Indian borne industrialist MITTAL sparks in the steel world,its turn of one more Indian industrialist to get into top 5 of the steel industry Indian steel giant,the TATA's has finally pipped Brazil's CSN to acquire Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group Plc at slightly more than $11 billion.CSN came out with a bid of 603 pence but TATA's came out with a bod of 608 pence.CSN officials confirmed pulling out of the race to acquire Europe's second-largest steel firm after a final offer of 603 pence a share. Tata Steel raised its final offer to 608 pence a share by the time the auction entered the concluding ninth round from 500 pence a share at the start of the auction.Tata Steel's winning bid of $11.3 billion puts Corus Group's enterprise value, which includes debt, at more than $13 billion.The takeover marks the largest acquisition by an Indian company and would propel the combined entity led by Tata Steel to the fifth rank in steel output in the world.The nine-
After Indian borne industrialist MITTAL sparks in the steel world,its turn of one more Indian industrialist to get into top 5 of the steel industry Indian steel giant,the TATA's has finally pipped Brazil's CSN to acquire Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group Plc at slightly more than $11 billion.CSN came out with a bid of 603 pence but TATA's came out with a bod of 608 pence.CSN officials confirmed pulling out of the race to acquire Europe's second-largest steel firm after a final offer of 603 pence a share. Tata Steel raised its final offer to 608 pence a share by the time the auction entered the concluding ninth round from 500 pence a share at the start of the auction.Tata Steel's winning bid of $11.3 billion puts Corus Group's enterprise value, which includes debt, at more than $13 billion.The takeover marks the largest acquisition by an Indian company and would propel the combined entity led by Tata Steel to the fifth rank in steel output in the world.The nine-
One of the strongest chess tournament will be held on 13-28th January in Wijk an Zee, Netherlands. WCN admins Carla Amse and Bogdan Girmacea will be at the site to provide reports and photos. We're hoping for some audio interviews as well.
Lineup:
GM Veselin Topalov (BUL 2813), GM Viswanathan...
From the keyboard of Phil Harris, "Sportsman" himself
I have a story, about an evening in a hotel in Holland which, depending on what you like to believe, is either mildly curious, or the work of the Devil. I will let you decide which.
I am lucky enough to be able to visit the Corus tournament...
Boris Gelfand made an early mistake with 15...Rb8 and Anand then sacrificed exchange for the long-term initiative. Veselin Topalov drew Peter Leko and waited for the outcome. Anand beat Gelfand in deep endgame and took the trophy thanks to Gata Kamsky and better tiebreak.
Magnus Carlsen is invited...