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    U.S. Chess Championships 2018 St. Louis

    February 16, 2018

    https://new.uschess.org/news/predict...-chess-champs/

    The fields are now set for the U.S. Chess Championships and U.S. Women's Chess Championships, to take place April 18-30 at the Saint Louis Chess Club.

    U.S. Chess Championship

    1. Fabiano Caruana
    2. Hikaru Nakamura
    3. Wesley So
    4. Alex Onischuk
    5. Ray Robson
    6. Sam Shankland
    7. Var Akobian
    8. Jeffery Xiong
    9. Yaroslav Zherebukh
    10. Zviad Izoria
    11. Alex Lenderman
    12. Awonder Liang

    U.S. Women's Chess Championship

    1. Irina Krush
    2. Anna Zatonskih
    3. Tatev Abrahamyan
    4. Nazi Paikidze
    5. Sabina Foisor
    6. Jennifer Yu
    7. Annie Wang
    8. Maggie Feng
    9. Anna Sharevich
    10. Dorsa Derakhshani
    11. Akshita Gorti
    12. Rusudan Goletiani

    Schedule

    Round 1 Wed Apr 18
    Round 2 Thu Apr 19
    Round 3 Fri Apr 20
    Round 4 Sat Apr 21
    Round 5 Sun Apr 22
    Round 6 Mon Apr 23
    Rest Tue Apr 24
    Round 7 Wed Apr 25
    Round 8 Thu Apr 26
    Round 9 Fri Apr 27
    Round 10 Sat Apr 28
    Round 11 Sun Apr 29
    Playoff Mon Apr 30

    Rounds begin at 1:00 PM local or 2:00 PM Toronto/Montreal time

    https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-u...nship/overview

  • #2
    Re: U.S. Chess Championships 2018 St. Louis

    Sure am looking forward to this one especially Awonder Liangs performance.

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      U.S. Chess Championships 2018 St. Louis

      April 13, 2018

      The U.S. Championships begin on April 18.

      New to the competition this year are these players:

      Zviad Izoria

      Grandmaster

      2714
      Residence: San Jose, CA
      Age: 34

      Chess Highlights: GM Izoria is the winner of the 2000 World Youth Chess Championship (U16 section). He also won the 2000 Moscow Kasparov Cup, and in 2005 won the HB Global Chess Challenge.

      Bio: The Georgian born Izoria is an exciting and interesting wildcard in this year's U.S. Championship. Currently rated 2599 FIDE (2593), he is the eleventh highest rated player nationally, the 34 year old GM will have to be very prepared for some intense top level chess as he competes against this year's field of elites.

      Alex Lenderman

      Grandmaster

      2695
      Residence: Brooklyn, NY
      Age: 28

      Chess Highlights: GM Lenderman shared first place in the 2009 Atlantic Open, won the 2009 USCF Grand Prix, and in 2015 took first at the World Open. He is rated 2600 FIDE (2598 URS) and is the fourteenth highest rated player in the U.S.

      Bio: Born in Leningrad, Russia, at age four Aleksandr arrived in Brooklyn with his family and quickly began to cultivate his love of the royal game. Lenderman was part of the "dream team" at his high school, winning four straight national titles. During the 2008 USCF Grand Prix, Alex scored higher than all of the competing GMs by playing and championing smaller events, including WCL tournaments. After placing first in the 2009 Atlantic Open he went on to win the 2009 Grand Prix, and co-champion the 2009 U.S. Open.

      GM Lenderman earned his three Grandmaster norms in quick succession in the summer of 2009 and formally obtained the GM title in 2010. In 2015, the young American Grandmaster helped the U.S. team bring home the gold medal at the World Chess Championship and then went on to win the 2015 World Open. Last year he produced impressive performances at the Chess World Cup and the Chess.com Isle of Man Open in September. This experienced GM is a strong and exciting addition to this year's already very strong field.

      Awonder Liang

      Grandmaster

      2669
      Residence: Madison, WI
      Age: 14

      Chess Highlights: GM Liang is the winner of the 2017 U.S. Junior Closed Championship. He is currently rated 2578 FIDE (2514 URS) and holds the records for youngest American Master and International Master, respectively.

      Bio: Awonder is one of the most impressive chess prodigies in recent history. The youngest GM in this year's field, he tied for first at the 2011 U8 World Youth Chess Championship and went on to become the youngest American to ever earn the Master and IM titles. He enters this tournament after a year of important successes, earning his final GM Norm in May 2017 and winning the 2017 U.S Junior Closed Championship. The Chess world can count on seeing an impressive performance from the young American GM in this year's U.S. Championship.

      Annie Wang

      Women's International Master

      2373
      Residence: La Canada, CA
      Age: 15

      Chess Highlights: In 2013 Annie went undefeated in the U2100 section of the Annual Recession Buster Open in San Diego. She won first place in the U-18 Girls section of the 2014 North American Youth Chess Championship, where she earned her WIM title. WIM Wang placed fifth at the 2017 U.S. Junior Girls' Chess Championship, and won the 2017 Girls U16 World Youth Championship with a tremendous score of 10.5/11.

      Bio: WIM Wang was turned onto chess at the age of five while attending a festival at a park near her home and observing a simul. Annie remembers, "I was interested in the toy-like pieces and started learning chess." In March 2014, Annie Wang became the youngest female chess master in the United States at age 11--breaking the record that had been held by Irina Krush since 1996. Annie held this record for one year, until Carissa Yip broke it in March 2015. The following year, she competed in the 2015 U.S. Women's Chess Championship at just 12 years old. Annie currently lives in La Canada, California and, though her father is a numerical-modeling researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, his daughter's chess talent far outpaces his own. When she isn't playing chess, Annie enjoys reading and spending time with friends.

      Dorsa Derakhshani

      International Master

      2321
      Residence: Saint Louis, MO, U.S.
      Age: 19

      Chess Highlights: As a teenager IM Derakhshani placed first in 2012, 2013 and 2014 at the Asian Youth Chess Championships. In 2017, Derakhshani accepted a scholarship to play for the Saint Louis University Chess Team. Together with her six team members, she helped secure a third place victory at the 2017 Presidential Cup.

      Bio: IM Derakhshani officially changed her federation from Iran to the United States in 2017 after a controversy arose about her refusal to wear a hijab while she played for the Iranian national team under the Iranian Chess Federation. Derakhshani was a loyal member of the team; however, she claimed that "they cared more about the scarf covering my hair than the brain under it." Currently, Derakhshani is a student at Saint Louis University where she studies biology, and is an accredited journalist for FIDE. At the age of 19, she is certainly a force to be reckoned with.

      Akshita Gorti

      Women's International Master

      2317
      Residence: Chantilly, VA
      Age: 16

      Chess Highlights: WIM Gorti started playing chess in March of 2009 and in only 6 years broke a rating of 2300. Gorti is currently ranked 17th in the United States in the U-16 category. In 2017, WIM Gorti won the U.S. Girls' Junior Chess Championship and earned both the title of Woman International Master and FIDE Master; thus qualifying her for acceptance to the 2018 U.S. Women's Chess Championship pool.

      Bio: When Akshita first entered the chess scene in March 2009 at the age of seven, she was rated 400. However, that rating quickly shot up: 1000 by the end of 2009, and 1467 by the end of 2010. Some notable achievements began to stack up for Gorti after a few years of playing in an impressive number of tournaments (averaging 30 per year). She took second in the 2013 All-Girl National Championship U-18 and the 2013 All-Girl National Blitz Championship U-18, tied for first in the 2014 U.S. Junior Girls Invitational, and took clear first in the Releya Chess WGM Norm Tournament in 2015.

      Rusudan Goletiani

      International Master

      2302
      Residence: Tarrytown, NY
      Age: 37

      Chess Highlights: Goletiani has been a notable chess player since the early 1990s. She earned titles such as Soviet Junior Champion, two-time Russian champion, and three-time world junior champion by 1994. Goletiani's first appearance in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 2004 earned her the title of Champion after winning the playoff match against WGM Tatev Abrahamyan.

      Bio: IM Goletiani's love of chess and the desire to make a better life for herself encouraged her to move her life to the United States in May 2000. When Goletiani immigrated to the U.S, it took her awhile to gain status as a USCF chess player, but soon after she was granted status, she played in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship and won (2004). She enters this year's championship with a rating of 2302.

      All bios taken from the official website:

      https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-u...-fields?page=1
      Last edited by Wayne Komer; Friday, 13th April, 2018, 10:00 PM.

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      • #4
        Re: U.S. Chess Championships 2018 St. Louis

        disregard this post
        Last edited by Wayne Komer; Friday, 13th April, 2018, 10:11 PM. Reason: duplicate submission

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