2010 U.S. Chess Championship

Krush lost R6 game to Christiansen:

Event "2010 US Championship"]

[Site "St Louis"]
[Date "2010.05.19"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Christiansen, Larry"]
[Black "Krush, Irina"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "2556"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackELO "2494"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[Source "MonRoi"]

1.e4 c5 2.b3 d6 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Bb5 Nbd7 5.Qe2 e6 6.f4 a6 7.Bxd7 Bxd7 8.Nc3 Bc6 9.Nf3 Be7 10.O-O O-O 11.Rae1 b5 12.d3 Qc7 13.e5 Nd5 14.Nxd5 Bxd5 15.c4 Bb7 16.exd6 Bxd6 17.Ne5 f6 18.Ng4 Rae8 19.Qf2 Kh8 20.Re3 Qf7 21.Qe2 Re7 22.Rf2 Ree8 23.Rh3 Qg6 24.Rg3 Qh5 25.h3 Qf7 26.Qd2 Qc7 27.Qe3 Re7 28.h4 h5 29.Ne5 Bxe5 30.fxe5 f5 31.Qg5 Kg8 32.Rf4 Rd7 33.Qxh5 Rfd8 34.Qg6 Rxd3 35.Qxe6 Qf7 36.Qxf7 Kxf7 37.e6 Kxe6 38.Rg6 Kd7 39.Rxg7 Kc8 40.Rxf5 1-0

Standings After R6:
Rank Name Score M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 2 3 4 5 6

1 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 4.5 M 2733 2804 +0.54 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1
2 GM Kamsky, Gata 4.5 M 2702 2813 +0.83 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½
3 GM Onischuk, Alexander 4.5 M 2699 2818 +0.90 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½
4 GM Shulman, Yuri 4.5 M 2613 2773 +1.23 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1
5 GM Christiansen, Larry 4.0 M 2578 2712 +1.07 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1
6 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 3.5 M 2599 2626 +0.26 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½
7 GM Shabalov, Alexander 3.5 M 2585 2613 +0.27 ½ 1 0 0 1 1
8 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 3.5 M 2570 2625 +0.48 0 1 1 1 ½ 0
9 GM Finegold, Benjamin 3.5 M 2539 2620 +0.69 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1
10 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 3.5 M 2528 2640 +0.97 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½
11 GM Kraai, Jesse 3.5 M 2492 2660 +1.40 ½ 0 1 1 1 0
12 GM Hess, Robert L 3.0 M 2590 2550 -0.32 1 0 1 0 0 1
13 IM Krush, Irina 3.0 F 2455 2584 +1.05 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 0
14 GM Lenderman, Alex 2.5 M 2598 2485 -0.97 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1
15 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 2.5 M 2591 2475 -0.99 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½
16 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2.5 M 2577 2485 -0.79 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0
17 GM Robson, Ray 2.5 M 2569 2488 -0.71 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½
18 GM Benjamin, Joel 2.5 M 2565 2512 -0.47 0 ½ 1 0 1 0
19 GM Bhat, Vinay S 2.5 M 2547 2464 -0.73 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1
20 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 2.0 M 2539 2465 -0.59 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½
21 GM Kudrin, Sergey 1.5 M 2571 2374 -1.53 ½ 1 0 0 0 0
22 IM Shankland, Samuel 1.5 M 2507 2367 -1.07 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0
23 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 1.5 M 2488 2359 -0.98 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½
24 IM Altounian, Levon 1.5 M 2454 2379 -0.54 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0

One more game and the top four go into some kind of  "quad" championship - what?  This format sucks.  What's the point of having a "championship" if all of the invited players don't have a chance to play everyone else?  If you want to shorten the championship, invite less players, but give them a chance to play.  Geez!  If you don't want to do that, why not just divy up the money right now among Onischuk, Kamsky and Nakamura, give Shulman a pat on the head and 4th place $$$, and send everyone home.  Next year, just invite the top 3, have them shoot some craps because I don't care to see these guys play chess with each other, give them the prize money and send them home.  Boring.  I sure hope they don't screw up the Women's Championship like this.