2025 US Championships

[Hans Jung]

Awonder Liang's queenside pawn play goes wrong and his position collapses against Swiercz.

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Sam Sevian gets to play a lovely knight fork on d6 leading to a crushing win.

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Rd 7 Women's Beautiful pawn and rook play at the end by Alice Lee and a key win ensuring her the lead.

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Great sparring by Yip and Yu leads to a fascinating endgame.
Unfortunately Carissa Yip decides to force the draw.

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Irina Krush couldnt make anything of her two bishop and a pawn advantage in the endgame = draw.

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Sargsyan's pressure play led to an easy win.

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Abrahamyan and Zatonskih drew.

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After 7 Caruana and So tied with 5, a point ahead of Aronian and Niemann.

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The difference in the lead is this:https://en.chessbase.com/post/us-championships-2025-6 Caruana missed forced mate against So.

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https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025...onship-round-7

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https://en.chessbase.com/post/us-championships-2025-7

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Rd 8 Since 2017 Ive known how extremely good a player Sam Shankland is but my respect has climbed even more viewing this game (Aronian vs Shankland) Purely delightful moves. The song sung by Elton John goes: He shall be Levon but maybe it should be: He shall beat Levon! This game in Mahmud's words is: Absolutely delicious!

One little mistake on a6. Chess is so hard.

Couldn't Shankland draw with 40....Bd5?

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Rd 8 Dynamic yet subtle sparring between Caruana and Robson.

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and what is going on in the Woodward - Sevian game? Talk about subtle maneuvering. There must be something in the water in St. Louis

I've got only one prediction in this game. Hint: bishop of ops favours the attacker. Kudos to Woodward for seeing it through.

[Hans Jung]

Liang - So Inspired play on both sides. Maybe its just the drugs Im on. I'm seeing more than I have in a long time.

Again - delicious play!