U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • #31
    Re: U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

    U.S. Championships

    April 9, 2017

    Round Eleven (continued)

    A caller suggests that after a draw, that the two combatants have to play a ten-minute game and if there is a draw again, then they play a five-minute game.

    Jennifer loves the idea and she doesn’t think if that rule were in operation, that Daniel would have forced the draw today, because he would be playing rapid chess against Wesley.

    Maurice says that Greg Shahade, Jennifer’s older brother, and Alejandro Ramirez favour that idea too. But the one who has expanded on it is Fabiano’s second in this contest - Rustam Kasimdzhanov made this suggestion back in 2011:

    And here is how it works. We play classical chess, say with a time control of four to five hours. Draw? No problem – change the colours, give us 20 minutes each and replay. Draw again? Ten minutes each, change the colours and replay. Until there is a winner of that day. And the winner wins the game and gets one point and the loser gets zero; and the game is rated accordingly, irrelevant of whether it came in a classical game, rapid or blitz.

    This way the expectations of the crowd will never be deceived. There will always be a winner, there will always be blood. There will come an age of great champions, since with this system there will be times when Vishy or Magnus will win Wijk-aan-Zee with 13 out of 13; and there will be winning streaks, when some of the great champions will win 50 games in a row. We'll make front pages.

    See:

    https://en.chessbase.com/post/kasimd...ith-a-proposal

    For replies to this proposal, see:

    https://en.chessbase.com/post/kasimd...-readers-react
    _______

    A caller asks which games of this tournament could a lower-rated player study for his profit? Yasser answers that the gem has been the brilliant game between Wesley So and Jeffery Xiong, a complicated game where Wesley uncorked a beautiful combination that lasted many moves. The game between Fabiano and Yaroslav, where Yaroslav limited his opponents play and carried this through with great patience to the win. Jennifer mentions a close study of the endgames.

    Yaroslav comes in to talk with Maurice, saying that he had been just hoping to survive and then near the end, ran out of energy. He lost two games as white and so has to work on his repertoire as white. He is a student at St. Louis University with Alejandro Ramirez as his chess coach. He finished a game against Daniel at 6:05 and had to run to attend a lecture at 6:00!

    Jeffery Xiong had a tough tournament. He says that ever since Round Four, the cards were against him. He was spending too much time on single moves. He also walked into some nasty preparation. It was just not his event. After his loss to Gata Kamsky, he lost a lot of confidence and played slower after that. His next event is the Spring Classic in St. Louis in May.

    He will be representing the US in the World Team in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. He says that is a dream come true to play for the U.S. This competition takes place June 16 to June 28 of this year.

    Maurice also talks to Daaim Shabazz, who has written the biography of Emory Tate. He has been doing the site The Chess Drum for fifteen years. Emory would send him emails about his endeavours and when he passed in November of 2015, Daaim knew that writing the biography was something he had to do.

    Maurice said that he didn’t have time to do a biography, he was a five times Air Force Champion, spoke Russian fluently, had a lot of grandmaster scalps and could dramatically explain his wins. After his win against Kudrin, he gave a post mortem performance that had the audience applauding.

    http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272523

    His favourite game was one against Yudasin in 1997. Emory spoke eight languages and could describe his games in any one of them.

    Daaim also put three of Emory’s losses in the book and probably Emory would not have liked that.
    ______

    Kamsky-Onischuk is looking like a draw. Akobian had an advantage at first, missed something around move 27 but now has a severe time disadvantage against Nakamura with 10 moves to make in 8 minutes against 56 for his opponent. Jennifer thinks things don’t look good for him and he may be left out of the party tomorrow.

    In the endgame, it looks lost for Akobian; Nakamura is in control.

    Fabi wins his game against Ray Robson. No one paid any attention to it during the day. At the end he had two queens on the board. If he had not lost to Akobian when two pawns up, he would have been fighting for his title. He tells Maurice that it was one of his most interesting games of the tournament.

    He is leaving tomorrow to play in Baden-Baden. He will be in Paris for the Grand Chess Tour later on.

    Varuzhan Akobian has just resigned to Hikaru Nakamura, so the playoff tomorrow will be between Wesley So and Alexander Onischuk.

    Hikaru is heading off to Switzerland for his next tournament. He says that Wesley is 90% certain of winning the playoff tomorrow.

    Varuzhan thanks his second, Akshat Chandra (born 1999) for his preparation in this tournament. Too bad that Nakamura didn’t play 1.e4 (everyone laughs).

    The games:

    Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
    Naroditsky, Daniel – So, Wesley
    C67 Ruy Lopez, open Berlin Defence

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.dxe5 Nxb5 7.a4 Nbd4 8.Nxd4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 d5 10.exd6 Qxd6 11.Qe4+ Qe6 12.Qd4 Qd6 13.Qe4+ Qe6 14.Qd4 Qd6 1/2-1/2

    Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
    Nakamura, Hikaru – Akobian, Varuzhan
    A07 Reti, King’s Indian Attack, Yugoslav variation

    1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c6 4.O-O Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Bxf3 Nbd7 7.d4 e6 8.Nd2 Be7 9.e4 dxe4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 Nf6 12.Bg2 Qb6 13.c3 O-O 14.Qe2 Rfe8 15.Kh2 Rad8 16.b4 a5 17.bxa5 Qxa5 18.Bd2 Qa4 19.Rfb1 Rd7 20.Rb3 Rc8 21.Be1 b5 22.Rc1 c5 23.d5 exd5 24.Rxb5 c4 25.Rcb1 Bd6 26.Qd1 Qxd1 27.Rxd1 Be7 28.a4 Ra8 29.a5 Bd8 30.Ra1 Rda7 31.Bxd5 Nxd5 32.Rxd5 Bxa5 33.Bd2 h6 34.Be3 Ra6 35.Ra3 Bc7 36.Rxa6 Rxa6 37.Rc5 Bd6 38.Rc8+ Kh7 39.Rxc4 Be5 40.Rc8 Ra3 41.c4 Kg6 42.Kg2 h5 43.Re8 f6 44.Re7 Rc3 45.c5 Kh7 46.Kf1 Rc4 47.Ke2 Kg6 48.Kd3 Rc3+ 49.Ke4 h4 50.g4 Bh2 51.f4 Rc2 52.Kd3 Ra2 53.c6 Ra6 54.c7 Rc6 55.Kd4 f5 56.Kd5 1-0

    Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
    Kamsky, Gata – Onischuk, Alexander
    C78 Ruy Lopez, Moeller Defence

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.d4 Bb6 9.a4 Bg4 10.axb5 axb5 11.Rxa8 Qxa8 12.h3 Bh5 13.d5 Ne7 14.Bc2 Qc8 15.Qe2 O-O 16.Bg5 Ng6 17.Nbd2 h6 18.Be3 Bxe3 19.Qxe3 Bxf3 20.Qxf3 b4 21.Ra1 Qb7 22.g3 Ra8 23.Rxa8+ Qxa8 24.cxb4 Qa1+ 25.Kg2 Qxb2 26.Qb3 Qd4 27.Nf3 Qa7 28.Qc4 Ne7 29.Qb5 g6 30.Qa5 Qb8 1/2-1/2

    Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
    Robson, Ray – Caruana, Fabiano
    C11 French Defence

    1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nce2 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Nf3 Qa5 8.a3 cxd4 9.b4 Qc7 10.cxd4 b5 11.Nf4 Qb6 12.Rb1 a5 13.bxa5 Rxa5 14.Bd3 Ba6 15.O-O Bxa3 16.Be3 Be7 17.Qd2 g6 18.Rfc1 b4 19.h4 Ra3 20.Bxa6 Qxa6 21.Nh3 Na5 22.Bg5 Nb3 23.Rxb3 Rxb3 24.Qe2 Qa8 25.Qb5 Rc3 26.Rxc3 bxc3 27.Bxe7 Qa1+ 28.Kh2 Kxe7 29.Qb4+ Kd8 30.Nfg5 Rf8 31.Nxh7 c2 32.Nxf8 c1=Q 33.Nxd7 Kxd7 34.Qd6+ Kc8 35.Qf8+ Kb7 36.Qxf7+ Qc7 37.Qxg6 Qxd4 38.f4 Qe4 39.Qxe6 Qg7 40.g4 Qc7 0-1

    Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
    Xiong, Jeffery – Zherebukh, Yarolslav
    E60 King’s Indian

    1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c6 4.Bg2 d5 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Nf3 Bg7 7.Nc3 Ne4 8.Qa4+ Nc6 9.Ne5 Nxc3 10.bxc3 O-O 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.O-O Qb6 13.Ba3 Qa6 14.Qxa6 Bxa6 15.Rfb1 Rfb8 16.Bxe7 Bxe2 17.Bd6 Rd8 18.Bc5 Bf8 19.Bxf8 Kxf8 20.Rb7 Rdb8 21.Rc7 Rc8 22.Rd7 Rd8 23.Rc7 Rdc8 24.Rd7 Rd8 25.Rc7 Rdc8 26.Rd7 Rd8 1/2-1/2

    Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
    Shabalov, Alexander – Shankland, Samuel
    B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Tal variation

    1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 e6 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Nf6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qf3 e5 9.Nf5 Bxf5 10.exf5 O-O 11.O-O-O Qa5 12.Bc4 Rac8 13.Bb3 exf4 14.Qxf4 Rfe8 15.Kb1 Bd8 16.g4 Qe5 17.Qxe5 Rxe5 18.Bf4 Ra5 19.h3 Bc7 20.Bxd6 Bxd6 21.Rxd6 Kf8 22.Rhd1 h6 23.a3 Re5 24.R6d3 Rce8 25.Nd5 Ne4 26.Nc7 Rc8 27.Rd7 Re7 28.Nb5 a6 29.Rxe7 Nxe7 30.Rd4 Nf2 31.Nc3 Nxh3 32.Rd7 Nf2 33.Nd5 Nc6 34.Nb6 Ne5 35.Rxb7 Rd8 36.c4 Ne4 37.Rc7 Rb8 38.c5 Nxc5 39.Rxc5 Rxb6 40.Rxe5 Rxb3 41.Ra5 Rb6 42.Re5 1/2-1/2

    Final Standing

    1-2 So, Onischuk 7.0
    3-5 Nakamura, Akobian, Caruana 6.5
    6 Zherebukh 5.5
    7-9 Kamsky, Shankland, Naroditsky 5.0
    10 Robson 4.5
    11 Xiong 4.0
    12 Shabalov 3.5

    Comment


    • #32
      Re: U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

      U.S. Championships

      April 9, 2017

      Round Eleven (continued)

      Women’s Championship

      Sabina Foisor had one of the best games of the tournament against Apurva Virkud. She has had a tough year and everyone was pulling for her. Her mother died in January. Her mother was very supportive for Sabina since she first played in the USA in 2009. She sacrificed her queen, a few minutes later was congratulated by her opponent, then given a few words by the official about a possible play-off tomorrow and then a hug from her fiancée, Elshan Moradiabadi.

      Jennifer Yu has the pressure on Nazi and may help Sabina to the title. She has been playing all of the computer’s best moves just before the time-control and will be a pawn up. Jennifer is quite a player! She is fifteen and Ms. Shahade reminds us that she earned a gold medal at the 2014 World Youth Chess Championship in South Africa -- the only U.S. gold in the event and the first world title for an American girl since 1987. She has three victories against the three top women. She is taking coaching via Skype from Boris Avraham.

      Irina Krush stood third and she goes off to her students and her teaching tomorrow.

      The games:

      Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
      Paikidze, Nazi – Yu, Jennifer
      D23 QGA

      1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qb3 dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bf5 6.g3 e6 7.Bg2 Be7 8.O-O Nbd7 9.e3 O-O 10.Qe2 h6 11.Nc3 Ne4 12.Nd2 Nxd2 13.Bxd2 e5 14.d5 cxd5 15.Nxd5 Bd6 16.Nc3 Nc5 17.e4 Be6 18.Rfd1 Qe7 19.Be3 Rfd8 20.Rac1 Rac8 21.Rc2 b6 22.Rdc1 Nb7 23.Nd5 Qd7 24.Rd1 Rxc2 25.Qxc2 Rc8 26.Qd2 Qc6 27.Bf1 Qa4 28.Nc3 Qa5 29.a3 Bb3 30.Rc1 Rd8 31.Qe2 Bc5 32.Bd2 Bc4 33.Qe1 Bxf1 34.Kxf1 Qa6+ 35.Kg2 Qd3 36.Rd1 Qc2 37.b4 Bf8 38.Nd5 Nd6 39.Bc1 Rc8 40.Kg1 Qxe4 41.Qf1 Nf5 42.Be3 Rc6 43.Qd3 Qxd3 44.Rxd3 Rd6 45.b5 Nd4 46.Nb4 Nxb5 47.a4 Rxd3 48.Nxd3 Nc3 49.Nxe5 Nxa4 50.Nc6 a5 51.Ne5 Bc5 0-1

      Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
      Virkud, Apurva – Foisor, Sabina
      E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical variation

      1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Na6 7.c6 bxc6 8.g3 d5 9.Bd2 d4 10.Ne4 Rb8 11.Nxf6+ Qxf6 12.Bg2 e5 13.O-O Bf5 14.Qc1 Bxd2 15.Qxd2 h6 16.Qa5 c5 17.b3 e4 18.Nd2 Rfe8 19.Rad1 Rb6 20.Nb1 Qe7 21.e3 Bg4 22.Rd2 Nb4 23.exd4 e3 24.fxe3 Qxe3+ 25.Kh1 Rf6 26.Rg1 Qxg1+ 27.Kxg1 Re1+ 28.Bf1 Rfxf1+ 29.Kg2 Rg1+ 30.Kf2 Ref1+ 31.Ke3 Rf3+ 0-1

      Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
      Krush Irina – Sharevich, Anna
      D37 QGD, Hastings variation

      1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bf4 O-O 6.e3 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.O-O c5 9.dxc5 bxc5 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Qc2 Nbd7 12.Rfd1 g6 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 Nd7 15.Bf4 Bg5 16.Bd6 Be7 17.Bg3 Bf6 18.Be2 d4 19.Ne4 Bxe4 20.Qxe4 Qb6 21.Rab1 Rad8 22.Bf4 Rfe8 23.Qc2 g5 24.Bg3 dxe3 25.Rd6 exf2+ 26.Kh1 Qb4 27.Bxf2 Be7 28.Rd5 Nf8 29.Bc4 Rxd5 30.Bxd5 Ne6 31.Rf1 Nf4 32.Bc4 Qb7 33.Bg3 Bd6 34.Bxf4 Bxf4 35.Bd3 Qc7 36.g3 Qc6+ 37.Qg2 Qxg2+ 38.Kxg2 Be5 39.Bc4 Re7 40.Rf5 h6 41.Bxf7+ Kg7 1/2-1/2

      Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
      Zatonskih, Anna – Abrahamyan, Tatev
      C01 French, Exchange

      1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 O-O 7.cxd5 Nbd7 8.Be2 Nb6 9.Bg5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Qb3 Bg4 12.Rd1 a5 13.O-O a4 14.Qb5 Bd7 15.Qd3 Ra5 16.Ne5 Nxd5 17.Bf3 Be6 18.Ne4 c6 19.a3 Nb6 20.Qc3 Rb5 21.Nc5 Qe7 22.Nxe6 Qxe6 23.Nd3 Rb3 24.Qd2 Be7 25.Rfe1 Qf6 26.Qc1 g6 27.Nc5 Bxc5 28.dxc5 Nd5 29.Bxd5 cxd5 30.Rd2 Rd8 31.h3 d4 32.Qc4 d3 33.Qxa4 Rxb2 34.Red1 Rxd2 35.Rxd2 Qa1+ 36.Rd1 Qa2 37.Qa5 Rd7 38.Rd2 Qa1+ 39.Kh2 Qe5+ 40.g3 Qe1 41.Qb4 Re7 42.Rb2 Qf1 43.c6 Re2 44.Qd4 Rxb2 45.Qxb2 bxc6 46.Qb8+ Kg7 47.Qe5+ Kf8 48.Qd6+ Ke8 49.Qxc6+ Ke7 50.Qc7+ Ke6 51.Qc4+ Ke5 52.f4+ Kd6 53.Qd4+ Kc6 54.Qc4+ 1/2-1/2

      Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
      Yip, Carissa – Feng, Maggie
      C03 French, Tarrasch

      1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Be7 4.Ngf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bd3 c5 7.c3 b6 8.O-O Ba6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Qe2 Nc7 11.Ne1 O-O 12.f4 f5 13.exf6 Nxf6 14.Nef3 Bd6 15.Ne5 b5 16.Kh1 Qe8 17.Rf3 b4 18.dxc5 Bxc5 19.Nd3 Qb5 20.Qe5 Bb6 21.cxb4 Ng4 22.Qe1 e5 23.a4 Qa6 24.Nxe5 Rae8 25.h3 Bd4 26.Qf1 Nxe5 27.fxe5 Rxf3 28.Qxa6 Rxh3+ 29.gxh3 Nxa6 30.Nf3 Bxe5 31.Nxe5 Rxe5 32.Bd2 Re4 33.Re1 Rh4 34.Re8+ Kf7 35.Ra8 Nxb4 36.Rxa7+ Ke6 37.Rb7 Nc6 38.b4 Rxh3+ 39.Kg2 Ra3 40.Kf2 Rxa4 41.Rxg7 Nxb4 42.Rxh7 Nd3+ 43.Ke2 Ne5 44.Rh6+ Kd7 1/2-1/2

      Round 11, Apr. 9, 2017
      Nguyen, Emily – Nemcova, Katerina
      C01 French, Exchange

      1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.Bd3 Nf6 6.O-O O-O 7.Bg5 Bg4 8.Nbd2 Nbd7 9.c3 c6 10.Re1 Qc7 11.h3 Bh5 12.Qc2 Rfe8 13.Rxe8+ Rxe8 14.Re1 Qb8 15.Qb1 Bg6 16.Bxg6 hxg6 17.Rxe8+ Qxe8 18.Qe1 Kf8 19.Kf1 b5 20.Qxe8+ Kxe8 21.Nb3 Nb6 22.Ne1 Nc4 23.Nd3 a5 24.f3 a4 25.Nd2 Nh7 26.Nxc4 bxc4 27.Bf4 Bxf4 28.Nxf4 Kd7 29.Kf2 Nf8 30.h4 Kd6 31.Ke3 1/2-1/2

      Final Standing

      1 Foisor 8.0
      2 Paikidze 7.0
      3 Krush 6.5
      4-7 Feng, Sharevich, Zatonskih, Yu 6.0
      8-9 Nemcova, Abrahamyan 5.5
      10 Virkud 4.5
      11 Yip 4.0
      12 Nguyen 1.0

      Comment


      • #33
        Re: U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

        U.S. Championships

        April 10, 2017

        Playoff

        (from chess24.com) - The format of the playoff is for Wesley So and Alexander Onischuk to play two 25 minutes games with a 5-second delay i.e. the clock doesn’t start ticking down until 5 seconds after you make a move, but you don’t get an increment and so can’t build up extra time on your clock. If those two games are drawn the players will go straight to an Armageddon game, where the player with White will have more time but a draw in the game will make the player with Black the 2017 US Champion.

        https://chess24.com/en/read/news/us-...phs-so-gambles
        ___________

        The broadcast today, as usual, starts at 2 p.m. Toronto/Montreal time.

        Comment


        • #34
          Re: U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

          U.S. Championships

          April 10, 2017

          Playoff

          Francisco Guadalupe, the Chief Arbiter, does the drawing of the colours. Wesley So picks the hand with the white piece and so he will have white pieces in the first game.

          25 minutes for each player. The first game starts as an English, following So-Nakamura from Leuven blitz, 2016. (So won that game)

          http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1825262

          White goes up two pawns but the engine gives an equal evaluation at move 17. However, Alex is five minutes down on the clock.

          20…Rb4 was a blunder 22…Nf4 is bad too.

          - onischuk will resign shortly, 1 minute and terrible position

          - Two pieces hanging, black is lost

          - this is lost

          US Championship Playoff
          (25 min) Rapid
          Round 1, Apr. 10, 2017
          So, Wesley – Onischuk, Alex
          English, Mikenas-Carls variation

          1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e5 Ne4 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.Be2 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Qb3 Nc6 10.Nxd5 Bc5 11.Ne3 Bg6 12.Qxb7 Nd4 13.Nxd4 Bxd4 14.d3 Nc5 15.Qb5 Rb8 16.Qc4 Ne6 17.f4 Bxb2 18.Rb1 Qd4 19.Rxb2 Rxb2 20.Bg4 Rb4 21.Qxd4 Rxd4 22.f5 Nf4 23.Nc2 Ra4 24.Bxf4 h5 25.Bd1 Bh7 26.Ne3 Rxa2 27.e6 fxe6 28.Bb3 Re2 29.fxe6 Re8 30.e7+ Kh8 31.Bg5 1-0

          Wesley wins the first game. The next game starts in 10 minutes.
          Last edited by Wayne Komer; Monday, 10th April, 2017, 02:59 PM.

          Comment


          • #35
            Re: U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

            U.S. Championships

            April 10, 2017

            Playoff

            The players change colours. Alex in a must-win situation. Alex is in a white shirt with tie and Wesley is in a maroon sweater.

            The commentators all questioning So’s 18….Qc5 although it doesn’t look that bad. Alex visibly relaxing now. The times are almost equal at 15 minutes each.

            Time is starting to run out for Alex – he does a two-minute think. Yasser and Maurice describe him as “going into the tank”. This is not the usual meaning rather it indicates that one is failing or deliberately losing in a match! An old boxing term.

            At move 40, Wesley is two minutes down on the clock and no initiative. He has been playing for a draw but now it looks like Onischuk may win and the match would go to Armageddon.

            Maurice is shouting because Alex has missed the best line but then Wesley has made a mistake in time pressure. We are at move 50 now.

            Alex’s advantage degrades. He is under 30 seconds. There is no increment, just delay. The game is drawn by perpetual.

            Wesley So is now the U.S. Champion.

            And what a performance by Alex Onischuk.

            US Championship Playoff
            (25 min) Rapid
            Round 2, Apr. 10, 2017
            Onischuk, Alex – So, Wesley
            A07 Reti, King’s Indian Attack, Yugoslav variation

            1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c6 3.Bg2 Bg4 4.O-O Nd7 5.d3 Ngf6 6.h3 Bh5 7.Nbd2 e5 8.e4 Be7 9.Qe1 O-O 10.Nh4 Re8 11.Ndf3 dxe4 12.dxe4 Nc5 13.g4 Bg6 14.Nxg6 hxg6 15.Nxe5 Bd6 16.Nc4 Ncxe4 17.Nxd6 Qxd6 18.Qd1 Qc5 19.Be3 Qa5 20.c4 Rad8 21.Qc2 Nc5 22.Rfd1 Ne6 23.Qc3 Qc7 24.Qa3 b6 25.b4 g5 26.Qa4 c5 27.bxc5 Nxc5 28.Qc2 Ne6 29.a4 Nf4 30.Bf1 Rxd1 31.Rxd1 Ne4 32.a5 Nc5 33.axb6 axb6 34.Qf5 f6 35.h4 Re5 36.Bxf4 gxf4 37.Qxf4 Qe7 38.Bg2 Re1+ 39.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 40.Kh2 Qe7 41.Qb8+ Kh7 42.Qxb6 Qe5+ 43.Kg1 Qd4 44.Qb1+ Nd3 45.Qc2 Kh8 46.Qe2 Ne5 47.Bd5 g5 48.h5 Kg7 49.Kg2 Kh6 50.Kg3 Qf4+ 51.Kh3 Qd4 52.Kg3 Qf4+ 53.Kg2 Qd4 54.Be6 Nd3 55.Kg1 Nf4 56.Qc2 Qa1+ 57.Kh2 Qe5 58.Bg8 Nxh5+ 59.Kg2 Nf4+ 60.Kf3 Ng6 61.Qe4 Nh4+ 62.Ke3 Ng2+ 63.Kf3 Ne1+ 64.Ke3 Nc2+ 1/2-1/2
            Last edited by Wayne Komer; Monday, 10th April, 2017, 04:05 PM.

            Comment


            • #36
              Re: U.S. Championships, St. Louis 2017

              U.S. Championships

              April 10, 2017

              Final Standings

              1 Wesley So - $50,000 – 8.5
              2 Alexander Onischuk - $35,000 – 7.5
              3-5 Varuzhan Akobian - $20,000 – 6.5
              3-5 Fabiano Caruana - $20,000 – 6.5
              3-5 Hikaru Nakamura - $20,000 – 6.5
              6 Yaroslav Zherebukh - $10,000 – 5.5
              7-9 Daniel Naroditsky - $8,000 – 5.0
              7-9 Gata Kamsky - $8,000 – 5.0
              7-9 Sam Shankland - $8,000 – 5.0
              10 Ray Robson - $6,000 – 4.5
              11 Jeffery Xiong - $5,000 – 4.0
              12 Alexander Shabalov - $4,000 – 3.5

              Maurice talks to Alex, who is in awe of Wesley’s play. The position in the first game was so complicated and Wesley was faster in finding his moves.

              Alex was optimistic in the second game. He was very close to winning but he allowed Wesley to block and the game was drawn. Alex is a fine sportsman. He thanks everyone who was rooting for him – especially those at Texas Tech.

              Wesley also joins Maurice. He says that it wasn't easy today. He looks very happy after being expressionless during play. It was also a tough tournament. He had to win five games and draw six just not to lose rating points!

              He congratulates Alex.

              He is glad to be champion at third try.
              Last edited by Wayne Komer; Monday, 10th April, 2017, 04:29 PM.

              Comment

              Working...
              X