Round 2 Pairings: 1 Gurevich, Dmitry 2594 – Kaidanov, Gregory 26972 Kudrin, Sergey 2588 – Ivanov, Alexander 26283 Yermolinsky, Alex 2568 – Gulko, Boris 26234 Ippolito, Dean 2512 – Onischuk, Alexander 27285 Shulman, Yury 2676 – Pruess, David 24976...
Pick the winners!
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 Champion2 GM Alexander ONISCHUK 2728 Rating3 GM...
Frank K. Berry US Championship matchups
Pairings for the first round of the U.S. Championship are up! Colors will be announced at the player’s meeting on the evening of May 12. Check CLO for an update on the player’s meeting/opening dinner. Also be sure to...
The power of fpawn
I just found this game from the database of Mr. Frank K. Berry, sponsor and organizer of the 2007 and 2008 Frank K. Berry US Championship in Oklahoma. White is Courtney, one of the up and coming young talented...
Field set for US and US Women’s Championship
Confirmed Roster for the 2008 US Women’s Championship 1 IM Irina KRUSH 2515 Current Champion2 IM Anna ZATONSKIH 2490 Rating3 WGM Rusudan GOLETIANI 2384 Rating4 WGM Katerine ROHONYAN 2318 Rating5 WIM Batchimeg TUVSHINTUGS 2289 Rating6 WFM Tatev ABRAHAMYAN 2280...
7 qualified for the US Championship
Dr. Alexey Root just reported on CLO that GMs Julio Beccera, Alex Yermolinsky, Jesse Kraai, John Fedorowicz, and IM Dean Ippolito have tied for first at the US Championship Qualifier in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since GM Beccera already qualified for...
Breaking News: Top players said no to 2008 US Championship
Breaking News The ten players seeded by rating for the Frank K. Berry U.S. Chess Championship (Tulsa, May 15-21) were to have replied by March 25th to their invitations. Early on, GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Joel Benjamin, and Marc...
US Championship Qualifier Report by NM Aigner
Here are the tentative pairings for round 3. There are 19 players with a perfect score, including all 8 Grandmasters. The big surprises so far have been Conrad Holt (2053), who has 2-0 after beating NM Carl Boor and...
OK kids compete for titles
Youthful chess championsMichael KinneyThe Norman TranscriptThe 12th Annual Oklahoma Scholastic Championship was held March at Cheyenne Middle School in Edmond. More than 264 players from 67 schools or homeschool associations participated in the competition. But it was Norman’s Kit...
Learning finance through chess
Children learn game of financeBy Paula BurkesBusiness Writer Gina Lowry, a sixth-grade math teacher at Heritage Hall, recently walked into the school’s locker room and found several football coaches tackling a mathematical brainteaser, with which they’d been wrestling for...