2010 U.S. Chess Championship

Ah HA!  Krush comes back with a vengence and kicks butt in her Round 5 game against Robert Hess.  The lady is tired.  She wants to get to bed and get a good night's sleep tonight after two in a row head-banger games with Akobian and the USA's youngest GM Ray Robson on May 16th and May 17th. 

[Event "2010 US Championship"]

[Site "St Louis"]
[Date "2010.05.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Krush, Irina"]
[Black "Hess, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "2494"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackELO "2641"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.a3 Bxc3 7.bxc3 e5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.Ne2 b6 10.O-O Ba6 11.f4 Nd7 12.f5 f6 13.Rf3 Na5 14.g4 Qe7 15.Rg3 Bxc4 16.g5 Bxd3 17.Qxd3 fxg5 18.Bxg5 Nf6 19.Kh1 Kh8 20.Rag1 Rae8 21.d5 Nb7 22.Qf3 Qf7 23.Be3 Rg8 24.Rg5 Nc5 25.Bxc5 bxc5 26.Ng3 c6 27.dxc6 d5 28.exd5 e4 29.Qg2 h6 30.Rg6 Qxd5 31.Ne2 Re7 32.c4 Qe5 33.Nf4 Qxf5 34.Nd5 Qe5 35.Nxf6 1-0
Game from Monroi

Standings after Round 5:

Rank Name Score M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 2 3 4 5

1 GM Kamsky, Gata 4.0 M 2702 2844 +0.83 1 1 ½ ½ 1
2 GM Onischuk, Alexander 4.0 M 2699 2849 +0.90 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
3 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 3.5 M 2733 2784 +0.34 1 1 ½ ½ ½
4 GM Shulman, Yuri 3.5 M 2613 2731 +0.79 ½ ½ 1 1 ½
5 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 3.5 M 2570 2708 +0.92 0 1 1 1 ½
6 GM Kraai, Jesse 3.5 M 2492 2726 +1.60 ½ 0 1 1 1
7 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 3.0 M 2599 2649 +0.36 ½ 1 1 ½ 0
8 GM Christiansen, Larry 3.0 M 2578 2685 +0.74 1 ½ ½ 1 0
9 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 3.0 M 2528 2652 +0.87 0 1 ½ 1 ½
10 IM Krush, Irina 3.0 F 2455 2657 +1.38 1 ½ 0 ½ 1
11 GM Shabalov, Alexander 2.5 M 2585 2552 -0.22 ½ 1 0 0 1
12 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2.5 M 2577 2534 -0.30 0 ½ ½ ½ 1
13 GM Benjamin, Joel 2.5 M 2565 2575 +0.07 0 ½ 1 0 1
14 GM Finegold, Benjamin 2.5 M 2539 2563 +0.15 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1
15 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 2.0 M 2591 2453 -0.96 1 ½ ½ 0 0
16 GM Hess, Robert L 2.0 M 2590 2497 -0.64 1 0 1 0 0
17 GM Robson, Ray 2.0 M 2569 2464 -0.74 0 0 1 ½ ½
18 GM Lenderman, Alex 1.5 M 2598 2387 -1.43 0 ½ ½ ½ 0
19 GM Kudrin, Sergey 1.5 M 2571 2412 -1.07 ½ 1 0 0 0
20 GM Bhat, Vinay S 1.5 M 2547 2375 -1.17 ½ 0 0 ½ ½
21 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 1.5 M 2539 2461 -0.52 1 0 0 ½ 0
22 IM Shankland, Samuel 1.5 M 2507 2413 -0.63 0 ½ 0 ½ ½
23 IM Altounian, Levon 1.5 M 2454 2419 -0.22 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0
24 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 1.0 M 2488 2314 -1.05 0 0 0 ½ ½  

Krush has black against Christiansen in Round 6.