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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

US Chess Championships: Surprise commentary guest chess great Garry Kasparov

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Hi everyone,


The US Chess Championships are down to the finals. In the men's section we have Gata Kamsky taking on Yury Shulman. In the women's section we have Anna Zatonskih taking on Tatev Abrahamyan. Here is how they qualified via the semifinals:



US Championship Semifinal 1
Name
Rtg
G1
G2
Rpd1
Rpd2
Armg
Tot.
Gata Kamsky
2733
½.
1
-
-
-
1.5
Sam Shankland
2512
½.
0
-
-
-
0.5


US Championship Semifinal 2
Name
Rtg
G1
G2
Rpd1
Rpd2
Armg
Tot.
Robert Hess
2565
½.
½.
½.
0
-
1.5
Yury Shulman
2622
½.
½.
½.
1
-
2.5


US Women's Championship Semifinal 1
Name
Rtg
G1
G2
Rpd1
Rpd2
Armg
Tot.
Anna Zatonskih
2499
1.
0
0
1
1
3.0
Irina Krush
2472
0
1
1
0
0
2.0


 US Women's Championship Semifinal 2
Name
Rtg
G1
G2
Rpd1
Rpd2
Armg
Tot.
Tatev Abrahamyan
2326
0.
1
1
1
-
3.0
Camilla Baginskaite
2342
1
0
0
0
-
1.0

Here are all the men's section semifinal games.


Here are all the women's section semifinal games.


Now guess who joined the live commentary team via skype?


You can access the official website here. And, another nice video with a surprise good news. Double congratulations to Yury Shulman. 


The awards ceremony will be Thursday night.US$166,000 total divided as 1st $40,000, 2nd $30,000, 3rd $20,000, 4th $15,000. The runners-up of the round robin tourneys: 3rd $8,000, 4th $6,000, 5th $5,000, 6th $4,000, 7th $3,000, 8th $2,500. $2,000 to the winner of each round robin tourney. Additionally, $5,000 will be set aside to award Best Game Prizes throughout both the U.S. Championship and the U.S. Women's Championship.

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1 comment:

  1. Amazing Kasparov and more amazing Korchnoi. I like the bit where he says Korchnoi draws power from the pieces on the board and becomes younger. Wow.

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