The World Number 1, see inset, Sven Magnus Oen Carlsen (b. 30th November 1990) emerged as overall victor with a 2822 Elo performance.

Final scores at CORUS 2010, a category XIX tournament -

1st M Carlsen (Norway) 8.5/13
2nd= A Shirov (Spain) & V Kramnik (Russia) both 8
4th= H Nakamura (USA) & V Anand (India) both 7.5
6th= S Karjakin (Russia) & V Ivanchuk (Ukraine) both 7
8th= L Dominquez (Cuba) & P Leko (Hungary) both 6.5
10th F Caruana (Italy) 5.5
11th= van Wely (NL) & ND Short (Eng) both 5
13th= S Tiviakov & J Smeets (both NL) 4.5.

The World Champion, Vishy Anand, was the only undefeated player but, with his World title match against the Bulgar Topalov looming, he was no doubt saving himself.

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YHM