US Championship Update

Round 2 Pairings:

1 Gurevich, Dmitry 2594 – Kaidanov, Gregory 2697
2 Kudrin, Sergey 2588 – Ivanov, Alexander 2628
3 Yermolinsky, Alex 2568 – Gulko, Boris 2623
4 Ippolito, Dean 2512 – Onischuk, Alexander 2728
5 Shulman, Yury 2676 – Pruess, David 2497
6 Kraai, Jesse 2569 – Akobian, Varuzhan 2666
7 Becerra, Julio 2648 – Fedorowicz, John 2514
8 Perelshteyn, Eugene 2626 – Langer, Michael 2307
9 Finegold, Benjamin 2613 – Ludwig, Daniel 2429
10 Shabalov, Alexander 2709 – Kaufman, Larry 2398
11 Friedel, Josh 2539 – Shankland, Sam 2299
12 Vigorito, David 2439 – Galant, Sergey 2176

Women’s pairings:

Irina Krush vs. Esther Epstein
Chouchanik Airapetian vs. Anna Zatonskih
Iryna Zenyuk vs. Katerine Rohonyan
Tsagaan Battsetseg vs. Tatev Abrahamyan
Courtney Jamison vs. Chimi Tuvshintugs

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Round 1 games:

[White “Zatonskih, Anna”]
[Black “Zenyuk, Iryna”]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Qc7 7.Be3 b6 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.Rc1 d6 10.O-O Be7 11.f4 Nbd7 12.b4 Rc8 13.f5 e5 14.Nb3 Qb8 15.a3 h5 16.h3 h4 17.Re1 Nh5 18.Nd5 Ng3 19.Nd2 Bd8 20.Qf3 O-O 21.Qg4 Bxd5 22.cxd5 b5 23.Bh6 Bf6 24.Nf3 Qb6 25.Kh2 Rxc1 26.Rxc1 Qf2 27.Rc6 Kh7 28.Bd2 Nb8 29.Rxd6 Be7 30.f6 Nf1 31.Bxf1 Qg3 32.Qxg3 hxg3 33.Kxg3 Bxd6 34.fxg7 Rg8 35.Nh4 Rxg7 36.Kf3 Nd7 37.Nf5 Rg6 38.Be3 Bc7 39.g4 Bb6 40.Bd2 f6 41.h4 Rg8 42.Bh3 Rc8 43.g5 Rc2 44.Ke2 fxg5 45.hxg5 Bd8 46.Ne3 Rc7 47.Bf5 Kg7 48.Ng4 Kg8 49.Kd3 Nb6 50.Nxe5 Nc4 51.Nxc4 bxc4 52.Kc2 Ra7 53.Kc3 a5 54.Kxc4 axb4 55.axb4 Ra2 56.Kc3 Ra3 57.Kb2 Rg3 58.b5 Bxg5 59.Bxg5 Rxg5 60.Kc3 Rg7 61.Kd4 1-0

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[White “Abrahamyan, Tatev”]
[Black “Krush, Irina”]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6 3.Nc3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.Be3 Bb4 7.Nb3 Nf6 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 d6 10.Bd3 Qxc3 11.Nd2 O-O 12.O-O Qc7 13.f4 Nbd7 14.c4 b6 15.Qf3 Bb7 16.Rae1 Rac8 17.g4 d5 18.cxd5 exd5 19.e5 d4 20.Qh3 dxe3 21.exf6 Nxf6 22.Rxe3 g6 23.f5 Qc5 24.Nb3 Qd5 25.g5 Nh5 26.Be4 Qd7 27.Rd3 Qe7 28.Bxb7 Qxb7 29.fxg6 hxg6 30.Rd7 Rc7 31.Rd6 Re7 32.Nd4 Qe4 33.Nf5 Re5 34.Rd4 Qc6 35.Nh6 0-1

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