Round 2 – Saturday, May 9, 2:00 pm
Board | White | Rating | Result | Black | Rating |
1. | GM Gata Kamsky (1) | 2798 | – | GM Varuzhan Akobian (1) | 2664 |
2. | GM Jaan Ehlvest (1) | 2649 | – | GM Hikaru Nakamura (1) | 2757 |
3. | GM Melikset Khachiyan (1) | 2632 | – | GM Yury Shulman (1) | 2697 |
4. | IM Robert Hess (1) | 2545 | – | GM Julio Becerra (1) | 2672 |
5. | Tyler Hughes (1) | 2293 | – | GM Alexander Onischuk (½) | 2736 |
6. | GM Joshua Friedel (½) | 2568 | – | GM Gregory Kaidanov (½) | 2662 |
7. | GM Joel Benjamin (½) | 2650 | – | IM Irina Krush (½) | 2496 |
8. | GM Larry Christiansen (0) | 2681 | – | IM Samuel Shankland (½) | 2464 |
9. | IM Ray Robson (0) | 2542 | – | GM Boris Gulko (0) | 2631 |
10. | IM Anna Zatonskih (0) | 2503 | – | GM Ildar Ibragimov (0) | 2628 |
11. | GM Alexander Shabalov (0) | 2620 | – | IM Michael Brooks (0) | 2419 |
12. | IM Enrico Sevillano (0) | 2549 | – | Charles Lawton (0) | 2350 |
Official website: http://saintlouischessclub.org/US-Championship-2009
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Go Akobian!
Why go? I hope he will be staying there!
Wow. Anna Z. and Irina K. aren’t doing so well!
Such is a tragedy of women’s chess in America.
Where are the real chess coaches in the USA?
Oh yes, the USCF got rid of them.
Silly me.