US Championships 2003

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Hikaru Nakamura, Alex Yermolinsky, Gregory Kaidanov, Alexander Shabalov, Joel Benjamin, Yasser Seirawan, Boris Gulko, Nick DeFirmian, Varuzhan Akobian, Alexander Ivanov, John Fedorowicz, Alexander Goldin, Grigory Serper, Benjamin Finegold, Sergey Kudrin, Gennadi Zaitshik, Alexander Stripunsky, Walter Shawn Browne, Larry Christiansen, Eugene Perelshteyn, Dimitri Gurevich, Maurice Ashley, Boris Kreiman, Anatoly Lein, Alexander Fishbein, Jesse Kraai, Michael Mulyar, John William Donaldson, Ronald Burnett, Irina Krush, Igor Foygel, Dean Ippolito, Enkhbat Tegshsuren, Gregory Shahade, Aaron Pixton, Marc Esserman, Yurij Lapshun, Justin Sarkar, Stanislav G Kriventsov, David Pruess, Larry Kaufman, Bill Paschall, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Stephen Muhammad, Camilla Baginskaite, John L Watson, Jennifer Shahade, Anna Hahn, Gregory Markzon, Tsagaan Battsetseg, Allan Bennett, Cindy Tsai, Esther Epstein, Julia Shiber, Laura Ross, Elina Groberman, Olga Sagalchik, Anna V Levina

page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 214  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. J Shiber vs G Shahade 1-0 36 2003 US Championships 2003 B26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3 2. J Sarkar vs Kudrin   ½-½ 57 2003 US Championships 2003 D97 Grunfeld, Russian 3. Serper vs J L Watson   ½-½ 16 2003 US Championships 2003 E00 Queen's Pawn Game 4. Akobian vs I Krush   1-0 68 2003 US Championships 2003 D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 5. Yermolinsky vs E Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya   1-0 34 2003 US Championships 2003 D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 6. Stripunsky vs A Lein   ½-½ 28 2003 US Championships 2003 B01 Scandinavian 7. R Burnett vs DeFirmian   0-1 41 2003 US Championships 2003 A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3 8. Shabalov vs D Ippolito   1-0 43 2003 US Championships 2003 E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 9. S Kriventsov vs J Benjamin   ½-½ 41 2003 US Championships 2003 C75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 10. D Pruess vs Fedorowicz   ½-½ 45 2003 US Championships 2003 B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 11. G Zaitshik vs G Markzon   1-0 50 2003 US Championships 2003 B07 Pirc 12. A Levina vs Mulyar   0-1 36 2003 US Championships 2003 C78 Ruy Lopez 13. E Perelshteyn vs L Ross   1-0 36 2003 US Championships 2003 B27 Sicilian 14. I Foygel vs C Tsai   1-0 40 2003 US Championships 2003 B53 Sicilian 15. E Epstein vs D Gurevich   0-1 50 2003 US Championships 2003 B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 16. Browne vs A Hahn   1-0 43 2003 US Championships 2003 D87 Grunfeld, Exchange 17. T Battsetseg vs Lapshun   0-1 39 2003 US Championships 2003 B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 18. Fishbein vs M Esserman   1-0 67 2003 US Championships 2003 C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 19. A Bennett vs B Kreiman ½-½ 37 2003 US Championships 2003 B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 20. O Sagalchik vs Ashley   0-1 38 2003 US Championships 2003 E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 21. Seirawan vs J Donaldson ½-½ 79 2003 US Championships 2003 D94 Grunfeld 22. C Baginskaite vs B Finegold   0-1 54 2003 US Championships 2003 E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line 23. J Kraai vs E Groberman   1-0 40 2003 US Championships 2003 E97 King's Indian 24. Kaufman vs Christiansen   0-1 43 2003 US Championships 2003 E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation 25. Nakamura vs J Shahade   ½-½ 29 2003 US Championships 2003 A18 English, Mikenas-Carls  page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 214    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Oct-01-03    Phoenix: Toooo many quick draws. Quite sickening.

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