2010 U.S. Chess Championship

Round 7 Krush v. Lenderman:

Event "2010 US Championship"]

[Site "St Louis"]
[Date "2010.05.20"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Krush, Irina"]
[Black "Lenderman, Alex"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "2494"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackELO "2649"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[Source "MonRoi"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.e4 Nb6 7.Be3 O-O 8.Bb5 Bd7 9.Bxd7 Qxd7 10.Nf3 Nc4 11.Qe2 Nxe3 12.Qxe3 Nc6 13.Rd1 e6 14.O-O Rfd8 15.e5 Nb4 16.Ng5 h6 17.Nf3 Nd5 18.Qc1 Nxc3 19.Qxc3 Qd5 20.a3 Bf8 21.Rc1 c6 22.Rc2 a5 23.Rfc1 Rd7 24.Qc4 Qxc4 25.Rxc4 Rd5 26.Kf1 Ra6 27.Ne1 Rb6 28.Nd3 Rb3 29.Ke2 Be7 30.R1c2 h5 31.f4 Rd7 32.Nc1 Rb5 33.Ke3 f5 34.a4 Rb6 35.Nd3 Kf7 36.g3 Rd8 37.h4 Ra6 38.R4c3 Rd5 39.Rb3 b5 40.axb5 cxb5 41.Rbc3 Ra7 42.Rc7 Rd7 43.Rxa7 Rxa7 44.Rc6 Rd7 45.Rb6 Rd5 46.Nc1 b4 47.Nd3 Bf8 48.b3 Be7 49.Nb2 Rc5 50.Nc4 Rc7 51.Ra6 Bd8 52.Kd3 Ke7 53.Ra8 Rc6 54.Kd2 Kd7 55.Ra7 Bc7 56.Kd3 Ke8 57.Rb7 Bd8 58.Nd6 Kf8 59.Nc4 Ke8 60.Rg7 Ra6 61.Nd6 Kf8 62.Rf7 Kg8 63.Rd7 Ra8 64.Nb7 Bb6 65.Rd6 Bc7 66.Rc6 a4 67.bxa4 Ba5 68.Rxe6 b3 69.Nxa5 Rb8 70.Nxb3 Rxb3 71.Kc4 1-0

Good for Irina!  She is still in the hunt for her second GM norm.  Not sure - I thought I read somewhere (in Ben's blog?) that she needs to score 2 points in her last 3 games to get it.

Now the bifurcated championship stuff happens.  The following top four dudes go into some kind of quad thingy: Nakamura, Onischuk, Kamsky, Shulman, all with 5.0/7.  Everyone else is now fighting for 5th place over 3 final games.  Whoop de doo.

R7 Standings:

Rank Name Score M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 5.0 M 2733 2764 +0.33 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½
2 GM Kamsky, Gata 5.0 M 2702 2773 +0.67 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½
3 GM Onischuk, Alexander 5.0 M 2699 2781 +0.78 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½
4 GM Shulman, Yuri 5.0 M 2613 2755 +1.35 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½
5 GM Christiansen, Larry 4.5 M 2578 2710 +1.28 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½
6 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 4.5 M 2570 2659 +0.87 0 1 1 1 ½ 0 1
7 GM Hess, Robert L 4.0 M 2590 2607 +0.19 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
8 GM Shabalov, Alexander 4.0 M 2585 2627 +0.43 ½ 1 0 0 1 1 ½
9 GM Finegold, Benjamin 4.0 M 2539 2608 +0.67 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½
10 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 4.0 M 2528 2627 +0.99 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½
11 IM Krush, Irina 4.0 F 2455 2636 +1.74 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1
12 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 3.5 M 2599 2572 -0.25 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0
13 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 3.5 M 2591 2534 -0.55 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1
14 GM Kraai, Jesse 3.5 M 2492 2599 +1.01 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 0
15 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 3.0 M 2577 2496 -0.80 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½
16 GM Robson, Ray 3.0 M 2569 2500 -0.70 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½
17 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 3.0 M 2539 2536 -0.05 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1
18 GM Lenderman, Alex 2.5 M 2598 2427 -1.66 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0
19 GM Benjamin, Joel 2.5 M 2565 2462 -1.01 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 0
20 GM Bhat, Vinay S 2.5 M 2547 2429 -1.17 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0
21 IM Altounian, Levon 2.5 M 2454 2460 +0.03 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1
22 GM Kudrin, Sergey 2.0 M 2571 2398 -1.64 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 ½
23 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 2.0 M 2488 2396 -0.87 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½
24 IM Shankland, Samuel 1.5 M 2507 2314 -1.64 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0