Who do you pick to win the 2008 Frank K. Berry US and US Women’s Championship?
Here are the top 10 seeds and how they qualified:
1 GM Alexander SHABALOV 2697 Current Champion
2 GM Alexander ONISCHUK 2728 Rating
3 GM Gregory KAIDANOV 2697 Rating
4 GM Varuzhan Akobian 2666 Rating
5 GM Yury Shulman 2664 Rating
6 GM Julio Becerra 2637 Rating
7 GM Boris GULKO 2623 U.S. Open Champion
8 GM Alexander Ivanov 2622 Rating
9 GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2615 Rating
10 GM Sergey Kudrin 2610 Rating
Here are the top 5 seeds in the Women’s Championship:
1 IM Irina KRUSH 2515 Current Champion
2 IM Anna ZATONSKIH 2490 Rating
3 WGM Katerine ROHONYAN 2318 Rating
4 WIM Batchimeg TUVSHINTUGS 2289 Rating
5 WFM Tatev ABRAHAMYAN 2280 Rating
The U.S. Championships both take place May 13-21 in Tulsa. For more details, see the website: http://monroi.com/the-2008-fkb-us-chess-championship-home.html
You can watch the games live online at www.monroi.com
Alexander Onischuk or Varuzhan Akobian and Irina Krush
Best Chances: Shabalov or Krush
Worst Chances: Gulko or Rohanyan
for some reason I keep always expecting something amazing from Becerra
Yury Shulman & Tatev Abrahamyan
Question: Why does USCF insist on using their own ratings when everyone else in the world goes by FIDE ratings?
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I hope it’s Boris Gulko. No one deserves it more.
And though youth will be served, age has its claims as well.
I can probably name 24 US Players better than the ones that are playing.
Alburt, Benjamin, Browne, Christiansen, deFirmian, Dlugy, Dzindzichashvili, Ehlvest, Fishbein, Goldin, Ilya Gurevich, Ibragimov, Kamsky, Kreiman, Nakamura, Novikov, Polgar, Sagalchik, Sammour-Hasbun, Seirawan, Sherzer, Stripunsky, Wilder, Wolff.
Who would win a team match
The 24 in Tulsa or these guys & girl?
Alburt, Benjamin, Browne, Christiansen, deFirmian, Dlugy, Dzindzichashvili, Ehlvest, Fishbein, Goldin, Ilya Gurevich, Ibragimov, Kamsky, Kreiman, Nakamura, Novikov, Polgar, Sagalchik, Sammour-Hasbun, Seirawan, Sherzer, Stripunsky, Wilder, Wolff.
Only Benjamin, Christiansen, Kamsky, Nakamura and Seirawin stand out on that list. The rest would be middle of the field people man.
Onischuk and Zatonskih