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Corus Chess at Wijk aan Zee

Come on in. Everyday we will put up live analysis and post-mortem ! Here is the list of players that we consider masters at winning and masters at drawing. Its interesting to see some players who belong to these groups by character :) Winning masters: 1. Garry Kasparov (73.08%) 2. Paul Keres (71.67%) 3. Max Euwe (71.43) 4. Lajos Portisch (66.14%) 5. Efim Geller (66.07%) Drawing masters: 1. Gyula Sax (76.32%) 2. Peter Leko (75.96%) 3. Andras Adorjan (72.09%) 4. Gennadi Sosonko (71.52%) 5. Ulf Andersson (67.86%)

Wijk aan Zee Chess records

Vishwanathan Anand holds the record for most wins at Corus, formerly Hoogovens. He's won 5 titles so far. Max Euwe, Viktor Korchnoi, and Lajos Portisch are next with 4 tournament wins each. Kasparov won it three times and Karpov twice. Here's the leading list. Tournament wins, Name 5 Anand, Viswanathan 4 Euwe, Max 4 Korchnoi, Viktor 4 Portisch, Lajos 3 Garry Kasparov 3 Donner, Johannes 3 Geller, Efim 3 Nunn, John D.M. 2 Karpov, Anatoly 2 Larsen, Bent 2 Nigel Sort 2 Nikolic, Predrag 2 Olafsson, Fridrik 2 Polugaevsky, Lev 2 Salov, Valery 2 Jan Timman 2 Veselin Topalov 2 Sosonko, Gennadi, others