| US Championship (2018) |
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The 2018 US Championship took place in St. Louis, Missouri from April 18th to April 29th. Samuel Shankland won with an undefeated score of 8.5/11, one-half point clear of Fabiano Caruana, himself one and one-half points clear of Wesley So. Official site: https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-.... Crosstable: Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 GM Shankland 2671 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 8½
2 GM Caruana 2804 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 8
3 GM So 2786 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 6½
=4 GM Nakamura 2787 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 5½
=4 GM Robson 2660 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ ½ 5½
=4 GM Lenderman 2599 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5½
=7 GM Xiong 2665 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5
=7 GM Izoria 2599 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ 5
=9 GM Akobian 2647 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 4½
=9 GM Zherebukh 2640 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 4½
=9 GM Liang 2552 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 4½
12 GM Onischuk 2672 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 3
Previous edition: US Championship (2017). Next: US Championship (2019). See also US Championship (Women) (2018).
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Zherebukh vs So |
  | 0-1 | 53 | 2018 | US Championship | B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack |
| 2. Onischuk vs V Akobian |
| 0-1 | 25 | 2018 | US Championship | A84 Dutch |
| 3. Nakamura vs Robson |
| ½-½ | 33 | 2018 | US Championship | C45 Scotch Game |
| 4. A Liang vs Caruana |
| ½-½ | 52 | 2018 | US Championship | B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation |
| 5. Xiong vs Z Izoria |
| ½-½ | 62 | 2018 | US Championship | A48 King's Indian |
| 6. Lenderman vs Shankland |
| ½-½ | 41 | 2018 | US Championship | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 7. Nakamura vs Zherebukh |
| ½-½ | 33 | 2018 | US Championship | C43 Petrov, Modern Attack |
| 8. Robson vs Z Izoria |
| 1-0 | 40 | 2018 | US Championship | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 9. V Akobian vs A Liang |
| 1-0 | 35 | 2018 | US Championship | D35 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 10. Shankland vs Xiong |
| ½-½ | 30 | 2018 | US Championship | A10 English |
| 11. Caruana vs Lenderman |
| 1-0 | 23 | 2018 | US Championship | C18 French, Winawer |
| 12. So vs Onischuk |
| 1-0 | 45 | 2018 | US Championship | C78 Ruy Lopez |
| 13. Z Izoria vs Shankland |
| 0-1 | 34 | 2018 | US Championship | D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch |
| 14. A Liang vs So |
| ½-½ | 57 | 2018 | US Championship | C03 French, Tarrasch |
| 15. Onischuk vs Nakamura |
| ½-½ | 40 | 2018 | US Championship | A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) |
| 16. Lenderman vs V Akobian |
| ½-½ | 69 | 2018 | US Championship | D37 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 17. Xiong vs Caruana |
| 0-1 | 49 | 2018 | US Championship | A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3 |
| 18. Zherebukh vs Robson |
| 1-0 | 51 | 2018 | US Championship | D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation |
| 19. So vs Lenderman |
| ½-½ | 46 | 2018 | US Championship | A06 Reti Opening |
| 20. Caruana vs Z Izoria |
| 0-1 | 82 | 2018 | US Championship | C53 Giuoco Piano |
| 21. Nakamura vs A Liang |
| ½-½ | 32 | 2018 | US Championship | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 22. Robson vs Shankland |
| 0-1 | 44 | 2018 | US Championship | C83 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 23. V Akobian vs Xiong |
| ½-½ | 48 | 2018 | US Championship | D83 Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit |
| 24. Zherebukh vs Onischuk |
| ½-½ | 30 | 2018 | US Championship | E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 |
| 25. A Liang vs Zherebukh |
| ½-½ | 30 | 2018 | US Championship | C48 Four Knights |
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| Apr-30-18 | | The Boomerang: "Well, Bobby Fischer's 11/11 was a hard result to top, but i guess 8.5/11 is better (not). Don't get me wrong, 6 wins and 5 draws is a great result in this pack, but 11 wins is 11 wins. Of course he went on to snuff out the competition before Boris with unbeaten score also. But that is a historic one-ism" Well no its not...it totally depends on your level of competition. What other top 10 players were in that 1963 champs that Fischer routed? |
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| Apr-30-18 | | The Boomerang: Amazing performance from Samuel, one he will never forget, and with 3 2800 at one point players in the field! With a red hot Caruana on your tail, just amazing. Enjoy! |
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| Apr-30-18 | | parmetd: Yes Izoria was quite strange especially considering that his games with Caruana and Shankland were blunderfests. Nevertheless, had Gata Kamsky accepted his invitation then Izoria wouldn't have been here at all. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | JPi: Great performance no doubt Congrats to the new US Champion! |
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| Apr-30-18 | | SugarDom: They got shankled. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Jambow: Carauana undoubtable exceeded expectations as far as play and even results, which you must have done by definition if your rating increases. What he didn't do was exceed Sam Shankland who way over performed. No shame for Caruana but great praise for Shankland who now has stepped foot in the 2700 club. The air is thinner but the view is splendid. Frankly I was rooting for Carauana initially but threw my lot in with the underdog as Sam excelled. Bravo three world top ten players in the rear view mirror... One who just finished ahead of world champion and #1 Magnus Carlsen. Sam will be able to bask in this one for some time. Bravo Bravo... |
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| Apr-30-18 | | epistle: For Caruana to place 1.5 points ahead of So is it self a very remarkable feat considering that Caruana hd his preparations for the WCC while So had no preparations to hide as he is not playing in any important tournament anywhere. Stated in another way, had So been the challenger to Carlsen, his present result which is 1.5 points behind Caruana would have been explained away by his deluded fans by saying he was hiding his preparations for the WCC. |
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Apr-30-18
 | | plang: How do you know whether Caruana "hid" anything? |
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| Apr-30-18 | | starry2013: Although he only won by half a point I really wonder if that tells the whole story here, he seemed pretty consistent compared to others. |
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Apr-30-18
 | | OBIT: When Fischer swept the 1963-64 US Championship with an 11-0 score, his competition was six GMs, three IMs, and two untitled players. That may not sound impressive compared to this year's all GM field, but keep in mind there were less than 100 GMs worldwide in 1963, and now there are about 1600. |
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Apr-30-18
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi epistle,
You have made two assumptions. One. Caruana has prep to hide (which is taking away some of the credit from Shankland) and two, predicting what Wes's fans would post. With one notable exception, Wes's 'deluded fans' tend to stay on Wes's page and there is no delusion going on, Wes is a very good player. On the contrary three very recent posts from the Wes So page: "Congrats to GM Samuel Shankland...."
"Congrats to Shankland, he deserves it."
"GM Shankland goes over 2700 for the first time in his career. Kudos to Sam!" Again no sign of a delusion there. They are actually congratulating the player who took away the title Wes won last year. I also think you are wrong with Fabiano hiding prep. He burned a good TN here Robson vs Caruana, 2018 |
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| Apr-30-18 | | JPi: Yes <OBIT> at Fischer's time lot of IM would be GM as well GM would be super GMs in ours. There is another record of Fischer which is debating: GM at 15 years old... yes but he has got this title being one of world best 6! |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Bobwhoosta: We can also consider the fact that- after studying the advances in chess made by Fischer himself, all the way through the computer age- it might very well be close to impossible to top a field in the way Fischer did. After all, when all of the world's best approach the asymptotic barrier of human achievement in the game, how much further can you jump ahead of the competition? One could argue "but computers show there is so much more to learn". Yeah, that's true. Maybe someday( soon?) a mind will come who can absorb all they have to teach. Especially since we have AI such as Leela who are playing in a style that resembles human chess to a much higher degree than any computer ever has. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Howard: As utterly impressive as Fischer's 11-0 shut out was, it was definitely in a weaker field than modern U.S. championships. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | ajile: I'm really glad they don't put up the money winnings here. It's SO uncouth and vulgar and WHO would want to see the MONEY anyways? Seriously WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE THE MONEY? Not ME NO! |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Hey you guys!
Today the GOOGLE page is dedicated to Johan (Hansi!) Carl Friedrich Gauss. How much more you can aggregate to Gauss' life? Well, my opinion: "The problem it is not to have the Mathematic, the problem is to have the Idea!". |
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| Apr-30-18 | | diceman: <OBIT: When Fischer swept the 1963-64 US Championship with an 11-0 score, his competition was six GMs, three IMs, and two untitled players. That may not sound impressive compared to this year's all GM field, but keep in mind there were less than 100 GMs worldwide in 1963, and now there are about 1600.> <JPi: Yes <OBIT> at Fischer's time lot of IM would be GM as well GM would be super GMs in ours. There is another record of Fischer which is debating: GM at 15 years old... yes but he has got this title being one of world best 6!> <Howard: As utterly impressive as Fischer's 11-0 shut out was, it was definitely in a weaker field than modern U.S. championships.> While 11-0 is "impressive."
To put these guys in full Fischer
mode, they would also need to be
clear first in every championship they entered. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Let's recall you guys the extraordinarily unpredictable that Caruana is. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | morfishine: <Pedro Fernandez> Gauss made significant contributions to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, magnetic fields, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics So much for specializing
They don't make'm like that anymore
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| Apr-30-18 | | ajile: I'm sorry I was a sarcastic bitch in my last post. But seriously please can you post the money. If they can do it in poker you can do it here. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Thanks by your opinion my great <Morphy>, but I believe in our evolution. We are going to have a lot of "Gausses" (this sounds horrible!) in the future! |
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Apr-30-18
 | | Dionysius1: In the introduction above someone has written that Sam Shankland's score of +6 was "solid". No it wasn't - it was more than that: + 4 has been sufficient to win in the past: this is closer to extraordinary, maybe highly creditable. Brrrr! |
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Apr-30-18
 | | eternaloptimist: Congrats to GM Shankland for winning the US Chess Championship!! It's really impressive that he's 2700+ now, in the top 50 in the world & won this tournament w/ 3 of the top 10 chess players in the world in it!! I'm also impressed w/ the play of Liang. He's only 15 but got a draw vs all 3 of those top 10 players!! I watched the latter part of his game vs Izoria. Izoria just had too much ground to cover vs Liang's ♙s in that endgame. I've really enjoyed being in St Louis & having a chance to ck out the US Chess Championship this year! I've also enjoyed meeting & talking to a bunch of the chess masters here. I'm going to watch the Women's Playoff today! I've also enjoyed sitting in the room w/ GM Robert Hess (tied for 2nd place in the US Championship back in '09) & GM Eric Hansen & watching & listening to their analysis of the games & discussing the games in this Championship w/ them. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Count Wedgemore: I'm with <Dionysius>. Shankland's score was nothing short of extraordinary. And his +6 was achieved in arguably the strongest US Chamoionship ever, where three of the world's Top Ten ranked players participated. |
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| Apr-30-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: As Alekhine and Fischer, Caruana does possess a murderous instinct? Yes! Is it trivial? Yes! But it is better to be crystal. And Carlsen should take care about this fact. |
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