Photo by Dr. Alexey Root and she also blogs about it here:
http://monroi.com/chess-blog/chess-experts/dr-alexey-root/124-dr-alexey-root/895-final-four-results.html
UTD was about to wrap up the championship when GM Ramirez hung his Rook in a pawn up endgame against GM Kritz. All UTD needed was a draw to clinch it the title. With this win, UMBC caught up with UTD and won on tie-breaks.
According to ICC, White (Ramirez) played 73.Bc3 Nxc4 0-1
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1 |
UMBC |
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-BALTIMORE COUNTY (2567.8) |
7.5 |
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GM TIMUR GAREEV (2625) 3.0 |
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IM SASHA KAPLAN (2517) 2.0 |
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GM SERGEY ERENBURG (2625) 1.5 |
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GM LEONID KRITZ (2668) 1.0 |
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WGM SABINA FOISOR (2404) 0.0 |
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2 |
UTD |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-DALLAS (2545.7) |
7.5 |
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IM DAVORIC KULJASEVIC (2560) 2.0 |
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IM MARKO ZIVANIC (2547) 2.0 |
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GM ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ (2619) 1.0 |
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IM JOHN BARTHOLOMEW (2498) 1.0 |
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IM PUCHEN WANG (2493) 1.0 |
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IM JACEK STOPA (2557) 0.5 |
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3 |
UTB |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-BROWNSVILLE (2347.4) |
6.5 |
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IM MAURICIO FLORES (2487) 3.0 |
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IM DANIEL FERNANDEZ (2401) 2.0 |
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FM MAX CORNEJO (2414) 1.0 |
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WIM NADYA KAROLINA ORTIZ (2227) 0.5 |
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BRADLEY J SAWYER (2208) 0.0 |
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4 |
STAN |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (2251.0) |
2.5 |
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FM ELLIOTT LIU (2398) 1.0 |
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DANIEL SCHWARZ (2317) 0.5 |
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VAISHNAV ARADHYULA (2225) 0.5 |
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CHRISTOPHER DE SA (2161) 0.5 |
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MATTHEW HO (2281) 0.0 |
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SARKIS AGAIAN (2124) 0.0 |
That’s unbelievable!
The talk of the FINAL FOUR has to be about the performance of IM Mauricio “EL FREGON” Flores. He is a young Chilean that I am sure is about to leave a big mark in american chess. He just arrived from Chile this January on scholarship. He defeated two GM’s with a 300 point difference from his rating.
Susan, also a big applause for putting comment moderation in your blog.
I was shocked when I saw that move on ICC…Even the best blunder!