US Championship 2009 US Championship – Round 3
Board White Black
1. ___ GM Shulman, Yury (2.0) ___ GM Kamsky, Gata (2.0)
2. ___ GM Nakamura, Hikaru (1.5) ___ IM Hess, Robert (2.0)
3. ___ GM Onischuk, Alexander (1.5) ___ GM Ehlvest, Jaan (1.5)
4. ___ GM Benjamin, Joel (1.5) ___ GM Friedel, Joshua (1.5)
5. ___ GM Becerra, Julio (1.0) ___ Hughes, Tyler (1.0)
6. ___ GM Akobian, Varuzhan (1.0) ___ IM Robson, Ray (1.0)
7. ___ IM Shankland, Samuel (1.0) ___ GM Khachiyan, Melikset (1.0)
8. ___ IM Brooks, Michael (1.0) ___ IM Sevillano, Enrico (1.0)
9. ___ GM Ibragimov, Ildar (0.5) ___ GM Christiansen, Larry (0.5)
10. ___ GM Kaidanov, Gregory (0.5) ___ IM Zatonskih, Anna (0.5)
11. ___ IM Krush, Irina (0.5) ___ GM Gulko, Boris (0.0)
12. ___ Lawton, Charles (0.0) ___ GM Shabalov, Alexander (0.0)
Special thanks to assistant head TD Chris Bird for sending us this information.
What is your prediction? Will there be a perfect score after round 3?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
No perfect score after this round.
No! Lawton will have 0-3!;
It is a pity that guy of such caliber is here and for example Alex Lenderman – the winner of Grand Prix with 2640 USCF Rating is not invited.
I agree. Lenderman should have been invited. Didn’t he have a better score than even Robson at Foxwoods?
Lenderman had a better score that even Hess at Foxwoods (only co-winner Shulman from the this year participants was higher than him), and he is higher rated now that any from the wild cards, even Shabalov.
I even feel a little bit sad for Lenderman, he missed Samford several years in a raw (Bhat in the last year? where is he? Robson this year is great, but he could get it on any from the next years). He earned a GM norm at Foxwoods, but it is not counted because the tournament was just short on two foreign titled players (hello, organizers! New York with a bunch of foreign players just next to Foxwoods),
and even was not invited to the US Chess Championship, although he was the Overall Grand Prix winner, which is much harder than be US Open Champion (Sevilliano) or US Junior CHampion (Hughes)
Agree 100% about Lenderman. I also think he is one of the hardest working people in chess and I don’t think he is acknowledged enough for all the teaching and mentoring he does in addition to playing in so many tournaments and attending college. Does [insert name of young player fawned on by the chess establishment]teach in Chess in the Schools, and mentor young up and coming chess players? Why isn’t he getting invitations to these tournaments?