Last year, Josh Friedel defeated Hikaru Nakamura in the first round of the US Championship. This year, they face each other again and Nakamura got his revenge.
[White “Friedel, Joshua”]
[Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteELO “2542”]
[WhiteTitle “IM”]
[BlackELO “2738”]
[BlackTitle “GM”]
[Source “MonRoi”]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 a6 7.Be3 Qb6 8.Na4 Qa5 9.c3 cxd4 10.b4 Qc7 11.Qxd4 a5 12.b5 b6 13.Qd2 Nc5 14.Nxc5 Bxc5 15.Bd4 Nd7 16.Bd3 g6 17.a4 Bb7 18.h4 h5 19.O-O Be7 20.Qe3 Nc5 21.g3 Rc8 22.Nd2 Nxd3 23.Qxd3 Bc5 24.Rfc1 Bxd4 25.Qxd4 O-O 26.Nf1 Qd8 27.Ne3 Rc5 28.Kf2 Qe7 29.Ke2 Rfc8 30.Kd2 Qc7 31.Rc2 Kf8 32.Ra3 Qd8 33.Kc1 Rc4 34.Nxc4 Rxc4 35.Qe3 Re4 36.Qf2 d4 37.cxd4 Qe7 38.Rac3 Qb4 39.d5 Bxd5 40.Qxb6 Kg7 41.Qd8 Re1 42.Kd2 Rg1 43.Qf6 Kg8 44.Qd8 Kh7 45.Qb6 Qb1 46.Rc1 Qb2 47.R1c2 Rg2 48.Kd3 Rxg3 49.Kd4 Qb4 50.Rc4 Bxc4 51.Rxc4 Qa3 0-1
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The turd is back!
Great
Go Nakamura
He should have played the winner of the tournament in a Match Championship. It is rediculous to put a champion into a tournament.
Nice to see Irina Krush get a draw against a much stronger opponent, Kaidanov. Although I like Kaidanov also.
Nice to see Bacerra win also. He qualified over the internet. He is a nice strong player.
ICC only followed 5 games. 4 were decisive. What about all the other games. I am disappointed in ICC.
I like Nakamura. I do not understand all these negative people who get down on Naka. Shame on them. Naka is one of the best. He is fun to watch play fast chess on the internet.
ICC has an agreement with MonRoi not to transmit more than 5 games since ICC has a direct feed into the MonRoi website to scrape the games. This makes people go to the MonRoi site then.