US Championship round 7 results:
| 1 | GM Shulman, Yuri | 4.5 | 2613 | GM Onischuk, Alexander | 4.5 | 2699 | ½-½ |
| 2 | GM Christiansen, Larry | 4.0 | 2578 | GM Nakamura, Hikaru | 4.5 | 2733 | ½-½ |
| 3 | GM Kamsky, Gata | 4.5 | 2702 | GM Shabalov, Alexander | 3.5 | 2585 | ½-½ |
| 4 | GM Kraai, Jesse | 3.5 | 2492 | GM Stripunsky, Alexander | 3.5 | 2570 | 0-1 |
| 5 | GM Yermolinsky, Alex | 3.5 | 2528 | GM Finegold, Benjamin | 3.5 | 2539 | ½-½ |
| 6 | GM Hess, Robert L | 3.0 | 2590 | GM Akobian, Varuzhan | 3.5 | 2599 | 1-0 |
| 7 | IM Krush, Irina | 3.0 | 2455 | GM Lenderman, Alex | 2.5 | 2598 | 1-0 |
| 8 | GM Ehlvest, Jaan | 2.5 | 2591 | GM Bhat, Vinay S | 2.5 | 2547 | 1-0 |
| 9 | GM Kaidanov, Gregory | 2.5 | 2577 | GM Robson, Ray | 2.5 | 2569 | ½-½ |
| 10 | GM Khachiyan, Melikset | 2.0 | 2539 | GM Benjamin, Joel | 2.5 | 2565 | 1-0 |
| 11 | GM Kudrin, Sergey | 1.5 | 2571 | GM Gurevich, Dmitry | 1.5 | 2488 | ½-½ |
| 12 | IM Shankland, Samuel | 1.5 | 2507 | IM Altounian, Levon | 1.5 | 2454 | 0-1 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
hope Nakamura wins so he can afford to get the long overdue haircut he needs
Great to see Larry C doing so well!
So lets see if I understand this correctly. My understanding is that the 4 people with 5.0 points will now play each other. That will require 3 games. The leaders after the 3 games go into tiebreaks.
Also everyone else keeps playing 3 more games of swiss tournament except the 4 top guys are sort of missing from that other group.
I like seeing the tournament leaders go head to head to determine the champion – much more exciting than in previous years.
In previous years, by the last rounds the leaders had usually already played each other and were paired against the also-rans – much less exciting.