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May-23-07
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| May-23-07 | | Pulse: To me it looks like Shabalov is winning, as even if Kudrin grabs the b3 pawn, white is still up material and can trade down to an endgame with a passed h-pawn. |
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| May-23-07 | | chesstoplay: Shabalov WON |
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| May-23-07 | | Temugin73: Shabalov have two passed-pawn.. easily win, imho, if make attention to perpetual check danger.. |
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| May-23-07 | | Pulse: Congratulations to Shabalov. |
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| May-23-07 | | Max of Tat: 42. ... Qxb3 43. Qxh5 Qg3 44. Re4
Shabalov is now listed a 1-0. |
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| May-23-07 | | PhilFeeley: So Shabalov won his last game. Does that mean he wins the tournament? |
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| May-23-07 | | unsound: Yes, Shabalov is US champ (again). |
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| May-23-07 | | Pulse: 43...Qg3 was a blunder, but black can't do much anyway. For example, if 43...Rxe6 then 44. Qg4 should lead to a winning pawn endgame. |
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May-23-07
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| May-23-07 | | geraldo8187: Nakamura has now finished a horrible +1 in the US championships, in which he was the highest rated player. I think this is the best thing in the world that could have happened to him. From what I've gathered, he doesn't like being mediocre, so this type of wake up call will either encourage him to step up his game to 2700+ or he will quit entirely. I hope the former is what ends up happening. It would be nice to have another American besides gata in international play. |
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| May-23-07 | | Wild Bill: Congratulations to Shaba!!
US Champion, 2007
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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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