Frank K. Berry 2007 U.S. Championship
May 15-23, 2007
Stillwater, Oklahoma
9-round swiss with at least 34 players 31 qualifiers 3 sponsor’s exemptions
Time control = G/150 with 30 seconds/move increment starting on move 1
Prizes: $12000, 8000, 5000, 4000, 3500, 3000 down to 500 for last place
If a tie for 1st, money is split evenly and the top two on tiebreaks play two G/10 for the title. Five players qualify for FIDE World Cup with ties broken by computer tiebreaks. All players are required to use the MonRoi electronic scoresheet.
List of players qualified in order of April 2007 USCF rating:
GM Hikaru Nakamura, 2755
GM Gata Kamsky, 2752 (will not play due to schedule conflict)
GM Alexander Onischuk, 2712
GM Gregory Kaidanov, 2686
GM Jaan Ehlvest, 2675
GM Ildar Ibragimov, 2675
GM Yury Shulman, 2662 GM
Alexander Shabalov, 2656
GM Varuzhan Akobian, 2652
GM Joel Benjamin, 2650
GM Alexander Ivanov, 2646
GM Alexander Stripunsky, 2638
GM Sergey Kudrin, 2609
GM Eugene Perelshteyn, 2609
GM Julio Becerra, 2600
GM Susan Polgar, 2597 (I will not play due to schedule conflict)
GM Dmitry Gurevich, 2591
GM Nick DeFirmian, 2585
IM Enrico Sevillano, 2562
GM Melikset Khachiyan, 2542
IM Anna Zatonskih, 2491
IM Irina Krush, 2480
FM Joseph Bradford, 2475
IM David Pruess, 2461
FM Robert Hess, 2447
IM Bryan Smith, 2440
IM Michael Mulyar, 2440
IM Justin Sarkar, 2438
IM Ron Burnett, 2393
FM Ray Robson, 2332
NM Michael Aigner, 2282
The Local Wild Cards are:
1. Movses Movsisyan 2288
2. Tom Braunlich 2156
3. Michael Langer 2354
This was reported by NM Michael Aigner in the USCF Forum.
Top male and female can’t play. That’s too bad.
How will alternates be picked? From rating list?
you seem to be confused. top male is playing.
Nakamura is the top player on the April USCF list (barely). However, Kamsky is the top FIDE rated American. Plus, I believe they use the December USCF list for this tournament, which again makes Kamsky the top rated.
It would be nice to have Gata and Susan but we have a reasonably good group. I will be here watching the games.
Good luck to everyone who will play.
I am disappointed that, if someone has enough money, they can buy their way into playing in this tournament.
To be sure, it is a way to increase the prize fund (that IS what the extra money is going for, right?). But each player worked hard to get into this championship, and I think it is disgusting to sell places in it to $50,000 donors.
That aside, I am rooting, as always, for my chess teacher, IM Irina!