Friday, May 23, 2008

Yury Shulman wins U.S. Championship 2008!

GM Yury Shulman won the 2008 Frank K. Berry U.S. Championship and IM Anna Zatonskih won the 2008 FKB U.S. Women’s Championship — in just about as opposite a fashion as is possible. Yury had it short and sweet, while Anna’s road was long and exhausting. Eight moves for Yury today — and about 248 moves for Anna!

The game Friedel – Shulman was a quick draw since a peaceful result was very agreeable to both. Yury iced the title and Josh earned his 3rd and final GM norm with a draw. Apparently Josh gets the title as soon as his rating surpasses 2500, which everyone believes will happen soon.


Frank Berry U.S. Championship
Final Standings
1. Yury Shulman-7
2. Alexander Onischuk-6.5
3. Sergey Kudrin-6
4-6. Josh Friedel, Eugene Perelshteyn and Varuzhan Akobian-5.5
7-10. Alexander Ivanov, Benjamin Finegold, Boris Gulko and Julio Becerra-5.0
11-14. John Fedorowicz, Dmitry Gurevich, Gregory Kaidanov and Alexander Shabalov-4.5
15-18. Daniel Ludwig, David Pruess, Jesse Kraai and Alexander Yermolinsky-4.0
19-22. Larry Kaufman, Michael Langer, Dean Ippolito and David Vigorito-3.5
22-23. Sam Shankland-2.5
24. Sergey Galant -1.5

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