Report by Steve Giddins

It was a fairly uneventful start to Corus 2010, with only two decisive games in the top group. World no. one Magnus Carlsen drew a quiet game against Tiviakov's favourite 5.Qe2 Spanish, whilst Kramnik's trusty Petroff led to an early draw with Dominguez. World champion Vishy Anand wheeled out the New Archangel against last year's tournament winner, Sergey Kariakin. A balanced struggle seemed to swing in Anand's favour in the run-up to the time control, but the result was a theoretically drawn queen ending, which Anand made no attempt to win.

In the B Group, the youthful Dutch champion Anish Giri got off to a fine start, by beating Harakrishna, whilst there were also wins for Nisipeanu and Sutovsky. The C Group, or Kindergarten Group, as Nigel Short described it, saw wins for Robson, Chao, Vocaturo and Grandelius.

Results of the day

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