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The 65th tournament in Wijk aan Zee (Beverwijk from 1938-1967) was played in the De Moriaan Centre, Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands from January 11 (Round 1) to January 26 (Round 13), with rest days on January 13, 17 and 22. For the second year in a row it took place without the participation of Garry Kasparov (Elo rated #1 in the world), who preferred to play a match against the computer program 'Deep Junior' (FIDE Man - Machine WC (2003)). Missing were also Peter Leko (#5) and Michael Adams (#6). Seven Top 10 players took part: Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (#2), Viswanathan Anand (#3), Veselin Topalov (#4), FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov (#7), Evgeny Bareev (#8), Alexey Shirov (#9) and Alexander Grischuk (#10). Also playing were: Judit Polgar (#13), Vassily Ivanchuk (#15), Anatoly Karpov (#20), Loek van Wely (#30), Michal Krasenkow (#56), 15-year-old Teimour Radjabov (#68) and Jan Timman (about #110). The drawing of lots took place in Velsen-Noord on January 10, with play to start at 1:30 pm the next day. First prize: 10,000 euros. Former (2000-2001) FIDE World Champion Anand won with 8.5/13. A good result considering he had not played classical chess since Linares (2002) and the FIDE World Cup (2002). Polgar, who had reached 2700 in rating and was the world's best female player, took second place. It was probably her best ever result. In Round 4 (Karpov vs Judit Polgar, 2003) she had the privilege to ruin the castling of a former world champion: 
click for larger view16...Bb4+! 17.axb4 Bxb5 18.bxa5 Bc4
Last year's winner Bareev took 3rd place. The 15-year-old Radjabov, who had achieved a 2nd place in Corus Group B (2002), made a honorable 50% score (+3 =7 -3). Kramnik disappointed this time with 7/13. Ponomariov did not do well either, and possibly he was affected by the circumstances around his expected unification match against Kasparov. For Anand, it was third win in Wijk aan Zee, counting his shared wins in 1998 and 1989. He took home 10,000 euros, while Timman, who ended last, cashed in 250 euros. Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, 11-26 January 2003
Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
1 Anand 33 2753 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 8½
2 Polgar 26 2700 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 8
3 Bareev 36 2729 ½ ½ * 0 0 1 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 7½
=4 Shirov 30 2723 0 ½ 1 * 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 7
=4 Van Wely 30 2668 ½ ½ 1 0 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 7
=4 Grischuk 19 2712 ½ 0 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 7
=4 Ivanchuk 33 2699 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 7
=4 Kramnik 27 2807 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 7
=9 Radjabov 15 2624 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 1 6½
=9 Topalov 27 2743 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 1 6½
=11 Karpov 51 2688 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ 6
=11 Ponomariov 19 2734 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 * ½ 1 6
13 Krasenkow 39 2633 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ * ½ 4½
14 Timman 51 2594 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ * 2½
Category: XIX (2701). Chief arbiter: Thomas van Beekum.
Sources
Wikipedia article: Tata Steel Chess Tournament#2003
Chess-Results (http://chess-results.com/tnr1093.as...)
Official website (https://web.archive.org/web/2003020...)
Chess.gr website (https://web.archive.org/web/2003021...)
Ajedrez ND website (http://ajedreznd.com/2003/corus.html)
Judit Polgar video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsg...)
Szachowa Vistula website (http://szachowavistula.pl/vistula/c...)
FIDE rating list January 2003 (http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic...)
TWIC report 27 January 2003 (http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic...)
Jan de Zeeuw website January 2003 (https://web.archive.org/web/2003020...)
Leidsch Dagblad, 11 January 2003, p. 27 (https://leiden.courant.nu/issue/LD/...)
Leidsch Dagblad, 13 January 2003, p. 13 (https://leiden.courant.nu/issue/LD/...)
ChessBase Chess News 10 January 2003 (https://en.chessbase.com/post/wijk-...)
Malcolm Pein in The Telegraph, 17 January 2003 (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...)
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam in NRC, 27 January 2003 (https://web.archive.org/web/2021020...)
Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, 27 January 2003, p. 21 (https://krantenbankzeeland.nl/issue...)
Kjell Krantz in Tidskrift för Schack, March 2003, pp. 148-156 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/2003...)
Lubomir Kavalek in The Washington Post, 27 January 2003 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...) Original collections: Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 2003 by User: Chessdreamer and Game Collection: Corus Group A 2003 by User: Tabanus. Previous: Corus Group A (2002). Next: Corus Group A (2004). See also Corus Group B (2003) and Corus Invitation Tens (2003)
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