Fields for the 2008 Frank K. Berry US and US Women’s Championship set:
1 GM Alexander SHABALOV 2697 Current Champion
2 GM Alexander ONISCHUK 2728 Rating (2008 SPICE Cup)
3 GM Gregory KAIDANOV 2697 Rating (2008 SPICE Cup)
4 GM Varuzhan Akobian 2666 Rating (2008 SPICE Cup)
5 GM Yury Shulman 2664 Rating (2007 SPICE Cup Invitee)
6 GM Julio Becerra 2637 Rating (2007 SPICE Cup)
7 GM Boris GULKO 2623 U.S. Open Champion (2007 SPICE Cup)
8 GM Alexander Ivanov 2622 Rating
9 GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2615 Rating (2007 and 2008 SPICE Cup)
10 GM Sergey Kudrin 2610 Rating
11 IM Benjamin Finegold 2609 Rating (2007 SPICE Cup Invitee)
12 GM Dmitry Gurevich 2594 Rating
13 GM Alex YERMOLINSKY 2587 Qualifier
14 GM John FEDOROWICZ 2531 Qualifier
15 GM Jesse KRAAI 2569 Qualifier
16 IM Dean IPPOLITO 2499 Qualifier
17 IM David PRUESS 2497 Qualifier
18 FM Daniel LUDWIG 2429 Qualifier
19 NM Sam SHANKLAND 2296 Qualifier
20 IM Josh FRIEDEL 2511 Wild Card
21 FM Michael LANGER 2322 Wild Card
22 Sergey GALANT 2176 Wild Card
23 IM Larry Kaufman 2383 Senior Open Champion
24 IM David Vigorito 2439 WCL Tnmt of Champions winner
US Women’s Championship:
1 IM Irina KRUSH 2515 Current Champion (2007 SPICE Cup)
2 IM Anna ZATONSKIH 2490 Rating (2007 SPICE Cup Invitee)
3 WGM Katerine ROHONYAN 2318 Rating
4 WIM Batchimeg TUVSHINTUGS 2289 Rating
5 WFM Tatev ABRAHAMYAN 2280 Rating
6 WIM Tsagaan BATTSETSEG 2251 Rating
7 WFM Iryna ZENYUK 2205 Qualifier
8 WIM Esther Epstein 2194 Rating
9 WFM Chouchanik AIRAPETIAN 2143 Wild Card
10 Courtney JAMISON 2064 Wild Card
Information by Mr. Tom Braunlich for CLO.
What happened to Nakamura, Kamsky, Goletiani, and Shahade?
The same thing that happened to Benjamin, Christiansen, deFirmian, and Stripunsky.
The list of players declined invitations:
Kamsky, Nakamura, Benjamin, Christiansen, Ehlvest (from original ratings list)
Stripunsky, Ibragimov, Fishbein, Goldin (from substitute ratings list), Arnold (US Junior Champion) for men (the whole 10 players RR tournament)and
Goletiani, Baginskaite (from original ratings list) and Melekhina (from substitute players list, how can you not to give a wild card for her, but used as a substitute?) for women;
plus questionable local invitees;
By the way thank you Mr.Berry for your help, in other way probably USCF could run the championship among USCF employees in Nashville office for the prize a cup of black coffee.
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Manolo.
Wow look at those names…just checking now, we are talking the US championship!?
Cathy Melbourne Australia