US Championship Round 9 Resuls

It was an exciting last round. GM Nakamura defeated GM Ibragimov, and GM Stripunsky defeated GM Goldin. Therefore, it didn't matter what happened on any of the lower boards. Nakamura and Stripunsky are now tied for first place at 7 points. There will be a rapid chess playoff tomorrow to decide the titleholder.

On the next boards, Kudrin, Shulman and Serper all won (Goldin and Ibragimov only drew). Joining them at 6 points were Kaidanov, Benjamin and Onischuk, who also won their games.

As the highest women scorers at 4.5 points, Goletiani and Abrahamyan will also meet tomorrow in in rapid chess playoff to decide the U.S. women's champion.

Final standings:

• Stripunsky and Nakamura - 7
• Kudrin, Shulman, Serper, Kaidanov, Benjamin and Onischuk - 6
• Goldin, Ibragimov, Gulko, Becerra, Akobian, Kamsky, Wojtkiewicz, Fishbein and Yermolinsky - 5.5
• Gurevich, Gonzalez, Bercys, Perelshteyn, Altounian, Christiansen, Milman, Lapshun, DeFirmian, Novikov, Shabalov, Finegold, Lakdawala, Ivanov - 5
• Schneider, Lugo, Kriventsov, Burnett, Browne, Goletiani, Casella and Abrahamyan - 4.5
• Zilberstein, Martinez, Friedel, Krush, Hoekstra, Muhammad, Battsetseg and Enkhbat - 4
• Zatonskih, Adamson, Lopez, Kraai, Lein, Zenyuk and Airapetian - 3.5
• LaRota, Shahade, Ross, Vayserberg, Hahn and Levina - 3
• Kleiman, West and Epstein - 2.5
• Sagalchik - 0.5

By the way, if you visit the http://www.uschesschampionship.com/ website, you can find the complete crosstable, round by round results, photos, review articles of each round, annotated games and PGN files containing all the games. Check it out!