Hikaru Nakamura of White Plains NY is the new U.S. Chess Champion! The 16-year-old swept the playoff match against Alex Stripunsky 2-0. Rusa Goletiani, also from NY, won her playoff against Tatev Abrahamyan with the same 2-0 score to win the Women's U.S. Championship.
Distribution of Prize Money:
1st. Nakamura - 7, won playoff [$25,000]
2nd. Stripunsky - 7, lost playoff [$17,000]
3rd. Kaidanov - 6, tiebreak formula [$13,000]
4th. Kudrin - 6, tiebreak formula [$10,200]
5th. Shulman - 6, tiebreak formula [$8,100]
6th-8th. Serper, Benjamin and Onischuk - 6 [$5,200]
9th-17th. Goldin, Ibragimov, Gulko, Becerra, Akobian, Kamsky, Wojtkiewicz, Fishbein and Yermolinsky - 5.5 [$4,294.44]
18th-31st. Gurevich, Gonzalez, Bercys, Perelshteyn, Altounian, Christiansen, Milman, Lapshun, DeFirmian, Novikov, Shabalov, Finegold, Lakdawala, Ivanov - 5 [$3,250]
1st women's. Goletiani - 4.5, won playoff [$12,500]
2nd women's. Abrahamyan - 4.5, lost playoff [$9,200]
32nd-39th. Schneider, Lugo, Kriventsov, Burnett, Browne, Casella - 4.5
3rd women's. Krush - 4, tiebreak formula [$7,100]
4th women's. Battsetseg - 4, tiebreak formula [$5,500]
40th-47th. Zilberstein, Martinez, Friedel, Hoekstra, Muhammad and Enkhbat - 4 [$2,525]
48th-54th. Zatonskih, Adamson, Lopez, Kraai, Lein, Zenyuk and Airapetian - 3.5 [$2,400]
55th-60th. LaRota, Shahade, Ross, Vayserberg, Hahn and Levina - 3 [$2,200]
61st-63rd. Kleiman, West and Epstein - 2.5 [$2,200]
64th. Sagalchik - 0.5 [$2,200]
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