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| May-23-07 | | Temugin73: <chesstoplay: Shabalov WON> Yeah!!
Best congratulations to him!!
It has always played in order to win in this US championship...
otherwise it would have had at least means point in more..
brave, concentrated and very prepared... and truly much strong.. |
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May-23-07
 | | whiskeyrebel: Shaba had a great tournament. Congrats. Two players from my area ( Austin Tx ) were near IM norms..Bradford and Langer. Does anybody know if there's any official word on that? |
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May-23-07
 | | chesstoplay: Monroi site reports:
"FM Michael Langer from Stillwater Oklahoma, and FM Joseph Bradford from Austin Texas earned IM norms!" |
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May-23-07
 | | Wild Bill: <"FM Michael Langer from Stillwater Oklahoma, and FM Joseph Bradford from Austin Texas earned IM norms!"> Hartiest congratulation to Langer and Bradford as well. |
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May-23-07
| | RonB52734: A quote from Shabalov after the game: "Huge thanks to all the fans! I'm so happy I was finally able to pull it out after so many misses earlier in the tournament. In the last round game Sergey surprised me with 2…Nc6!, which totally killed all my preparation versus Dragon or 2…g6. But I couldn't remember a single game of his after 3.Bb5. Does it matter that I'm not playing it? No! So the resulting position was very much in the spirit of pet variation 1.e4 c5 2. Na3 and I did the grinding!" Congrats, US Champion Shabalov! |
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May-23-07
| | RonB52734: The top multiple-time US Champions since it went to tournament style in 1936: Bobby Fischer: 8 (span of 9 years)
Samuel Reshevsky: 6 (33 years!)
Walter Browne: 6 (9 years)
Larry Evans: 4 (29 years)
Alexander Shabalov: 4 (14 years)
Larry Christiansen: 3 (22 years)
Yasser Sierawan: 3 (19 years)
Joel Benjamin: 3 (13 years)
Lev Alburt: 3 (6 years)
Nick DiFirmian: 2 (11 years)
Roman Dzindzichashvili: 2 (6 years)
Boris Gulko: 2 (5 years)
Alexander Yermolinsky: 2 (3 years)
Apologies if I miscounted.
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| May-23-07 | | Dr.Lecter: Congrats to the new U.S. champion, Alexander Shabalov! |
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| May-24-07 | | BIDMONFA: US Championships (2007) HISTORY CHAMPIONSHIP
http://www.bidmonfa.com/campionats_...
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| May-24-07 | | MrPatzer: <RonB52734> Not to quibble, but DiFirmian has won three championships. And you left off Patrick Wolff, who has won twice. I hear both of them want to have a few words with you outside in the parking lot. Random thought: If Fischer is still telling people that he's the "real" world champ, is it possible he thinks he's still the "real" U.S. champ, too? |
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May-24-07
 | | suenteus po 147: <MrPatzer: If Fischer is still telling people that he's the "real" world champ, is it possible he thinks he's still the "real" U.S. champ, too?> He wouldn't deign to claim so meager and insignificant a title. Besides, he has some views on America these days that make him want to put as much distance from us as possible. |
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| May-24-07 | | russep: WHo's in the lead in this tournament? |
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May-24-07
 | | chessmoron: It's over! Alexander Shabalov win the US crown. |
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May-24-07
| | RonB52734: <Mr. Patzer> Thanks for pointing out the errors. Let's consider them corrected by your post. My eyes got crossed trying to compile that from the table on Monroi. Tx again. |
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May-24-07
| | chessmoron: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
Chessbase is so CRUEL!!!
<You have to go sixteen places down the list to hit on the first American sounding name.> But so true. (-: |
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May-24-07
| | RonB52734: <chessbase is so CRUEL> or racist. My name is Scots-Irish. My middle name is French. Whose name is American-sounding? Sacageweia? Pocahontas? |
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May-25-07
| | Chess Classics: Hmm, according to chessbase, the first prize was $12,000. I seem to remember last year that it was $25,000. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that their sponsor withdrew? Just maybe?! Regards,
CC |
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| May-25-07 | | Pulse: <RonB52734: <chessbase is so CRUEL> or racist. My name is Scots-Irish. My middle name is French. Whose name is American-sounding? Sacageweia? Pocahontas?> Well, would you say "Smith" is American-sounding? Or "Joe?" Speaking of which, congrats to Joe Bradford for his 4th IM norm! |
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May-25-07
| | RonB52734: <Chess Classics> Absolutely. This thing was a shadow of its former self. |
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| May-25-07 | | MrPatzer: <You have to go sixteen places down the list to hit on the first American sounding name.> This will shock the brainiacs at Chessbase.com, but there are plenty of native-born Americans with names like (for example) "Alex Stripunsky" who have never set foot in any other country. |
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May-25-07
| | RonB52734: <Mr. Patzer> This is my point. We are all immigrants or the children of immigrants, or else we are the descendants of Pocahontas or the like. Throughout American history there has always been some "us vs. them" mentality based on how many generations of your family have been here. To my ear, this is merely a form of racism. I've met Alex Shabalov, Alex Yermolinsky and Gregory Kaidanov. Nothing about them struck me as non-American. |
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| May-25-07 | | Prugno: All this discussion in the last few posts is besides the point. There is nothing philosophical or ethnical in the ChessBase remark: they were merely pointing out the plain fact that 14 of the top finishers in the US Championship (the 15th is Nakamura, who learned chess in America althought born in Japan) were already very strong players when they left their home countries in the former Soviet Union (or Cuba in the case of Becerra), and therefore are not the product of US chess culture. |
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May-25-07
 | | plang: I think the only point being made was that the majority of grandmasters currently in the US were not born in the US and, in fact, were already grandmasters when they came to the US. |
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| May-25-07 | | pazzed paun: <Chess Classics> not only was a sponser lost from last year-(thanks to the gentleman who stepped up this year BTW)
leaving a lower prize fund in an obscure goegraphic place, but the previous sponsers sole reason to exist is to promote chess--how do you lose a sponser like that?? scandal--in other things you would see a revolt, or buyout of the USCF? I wonder how the players felt about this tournament? |
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| May-26-07 | | MrPatzer: It really shouldn't be hard to find a rich celebrity who's willing to put up his/her own money to sponsor the U.S. Championships. A lot of famous people like to associate themselves with "good causes," and we've all heard of celebrities who like to play chess. Plus, it would attract popular attention to the event. |
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| May-29-07 | | Dr.Lecter: Seems like Shabalov will move up to about third in rating after this. |
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