Congratulations Irina Krush

[Jean Hébert]

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Irina is the only woman to ever have beaten me. She undoubtedly deserve the title. :)

[Hans Jung]

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This is her year to win the Bobby Fischer prize for women for a perfect score at the US Championship ($64,000).

[Jack Maguire]

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'St. Louis Public Radio' today features Irina Krush.

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/...champion-krush

[Jack Maguire]

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A record Irina Krush held for 18 years has fallen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us...e-is.html?_r=0

[Jack Maguire]

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Tablet Magazine has a feature on both Irina Krush and Anna Zatonskih.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news...y-jewish-women

[Gordon Ritchie]

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Congrats to Irene. Well deserved.

[Kenneth Regan]

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The "Intrinsic Performance Rating" of 2497 which I computed for Krush in the 2011 Canadian Open is actually among the lower IPR's I have for her, and anything higher is considered GM standard. Several from US Wch's are over 2600, but those don't count as norms. The same model shows no rating inflation.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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How it happened in her own words: http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12378/729/

About the last game:
"We took a look at what he played, and my coach said “take on d5 if he plays the Slav.” Then he instructed me to offer a draw on move seven, and appealed to Botvinnik's authority: “Botvinnik said to do this.”" LOL

[Caesar Posylek]

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[Caesar Posylek]

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Congratulations Irina! Well deserved and done! Bravo!

[Hans Jung]

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Congratulations Irina! A long time coming and well deserved.

[Duncan Smith]

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That is rather harsh - even by Chesstalk standards.
I think her results come from hard work not from inflation.

Shaw's history of crushing on male players here might be instructive why he has trouble respecting a really talented female player.

[Kerry Liles]

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Chess inflation is surely upon us if Irina Krush is now a GM.

That is rather harsh - even by Chesstalk standards.
I think her results come from hard work not from inflation.

[Andy Shaw]

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Chess inflation is surely upon us if Irina Krush is now a GM.

[Kerry Liles]

Seems like she has achieved her final GM norm and pushed her rating over 2500 at the just-completed Baku tournament.
I saw this on Pogonina's blog (http://pogonina.com/index.php?option...tpage&Itemid=1) and I believe Susan Polgar
has also tweeted about it...

Well done Irina! Well deserved and overdue!