Photo from the official website After scoring 5 straight wins in the first 5 rounds, America’s youngest IM ended up winning the Miami Open by defeating GM Sadvasakov in the playoff to capture the title. Final standings: 1 IM...
Erenburg 1/2 Robson
GM Erenburg (2613) – FM Robson (2433) [B65]08.06.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 Be7 8.0–0–0 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 0–0 10.f4 Qa5 11.Bc4 Bd7 12.e5 dxe5 13.fxe5 Bc6 14.Bd2 Nd7 15.Nd5 Qd8 16.Nxe7+...
IM Robson 1/2 GM Yermolinsky
Las Vegas Chess Festival Round 4 [Event “2008 NATIONAL OPEN”][Site “Las Vegas”][Date “2008.06.07”][Round “4”][White “IM Robson, Ray”][Black “GM Yermolinsky, Alex”][Result “1/2-1/2”][WhiteELO “2433”][BlackELO “2584”][Source “MonRoi”] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4...
GM Akobian 1/2 IM Robson
[Event “2008 NATIONAL OPEN”][Site “Las Vegas”][Date “2008.06.07”][Round “3”][White “GM Akobian, Varuzhan”][Black “IM Robson, Ray”][Result “1/2-1/2”][WhiteELO “2666”][BlackELO “2433”][Source “MonRoi”] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 Bb4 8.Bd2 b6 9.O-O-O Bb7 10.Rg1 Rc8 11.Kb1...
The new young star
December 16, 2007ChessFlorida Boy, Just 13, Sprints to International Master TitleBy DYLAN LOEB McCLAINNY Times Last weekend, 1,300 children competed in the grade nationals in Houston, including more than 100 eighth graders. Four — Darwin Li, Andrew Ng, Ben...
Robson’s marathon
Final position WGM Ning (2354) – FM Robson (2368) [B52]13.12.2007 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.0–0 Nf6 6.Re1 e6 7.c4 Be7 8.Nc3 0–0 9.d4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Nc6 11.b3 a6 12.Bb2 Rfd8 13.Rc1 Nxd4 14.Qxd4 b5 15.h3...
Robson needs to win for GM norm
Standings after 8 rounds: # Name Rating Country Total 1 IM Davorin Kuljasevic 2464 CRO 6.02 GM Alejandro Ramirez 2505 CRC 5.53 FM Ray Robson 2368 USA 5.54 GM Zviad Izoria 2643 GEO 5.05 IM John Bartholomew 2435 USA...
13 year old Robson on pace for GM norm
UTD Invitational Standings after 7 rounds: 1. Ray Robson 5.5 2. Davorin Kuljasevic 5.0 3. Alejandro Ramirez 4.5 4. Zviad Izoria 4.0 5. Dmitry Schneider 3.55. Jun Zhao 3.55. Jacek Stopa 3.55. John Bartholomew 3.5 9. Chunhong Ning 3.0...
13 year old IM-elect Ray Robson
Ray Robson has made his final IM norm (a 9 game norm) with 3 rounds to spare! This just came from Mr. L. Salinas: If my calculations are correct, here is what Ray needs for a GM norm: 9...