Happy 30th birthday, Hikaru Nakamura!

December 8, 2017

Bill Brock

Tournaments, Plus-Score, Rated Beginners' Open

Nakamura failed to covert a piece-up ending against Magnus Carlsen today. (These endings are surprisingly tough: Kramnik failed to convert a similar piece-up ending in his World Championship match with Kasparov.) Doubtless, Hikaru would have had no problem converting this ending had it been played on Saturday, when he will be thirty years old and therefore infinitely wiser.

Celebrate Hikaru's birthday (or, more likely, the weekend) by playing chess!

FM Alexander Velikanov leads the list of entries for tomorrow's Plus-Score 15. Still time to register here!

Reminder: if you are a GM, IM, WGM, WIM, or rated 2400+, you can enter any of our Plus-Score events for just $1! (Pay the full EF online, and we refund all but $1 via PayPal.)

And we've got 22 players so far in the Rated Beginners' Open. Why not register here?

October 30, 2017

Bill Brock

Tournaments, City of Chicago Class

City of Chicago Class....final results

October 30, 2017

Bill Brock

Tournaments, City of Chicago Class

...or should I say "sort of final results"? We had several international players in this event, which is great, and which creates some minor issues posting results to MSA. Maret has the files done & ready to submit....which will probably be done by early tomorrow.afternoon.

UPDATE Saturday, November 4: As promised, Maret had both the FIDE event and the other class sections US Chess rated. Here they are:

Open: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201710292482

U2100-U1900-U1700-U1500: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201710292472

In the Open Section, IM Eric Rosen and NM Aakaash Meduri tied for first and split the $1,000 first prize and the $500 second prize. GM Dmitry Gurevich and FM Mauro Ampie (Nicaragua's #1 player!) each won $250 for sharing third and fourth.

IM Angelo Young and Anupama Rajendra shared the Under 2300 prize ($400 first, $250 second), winning $325 each.

Maret gave me the full Open crosstable: who knows what I did with that.

Here's a link (pdf) to the full crosstables and the prizewinners of the various sections.

Thanks for making this a fun and successful event!

October 28, 2017

Bill Brock

Tournaments

Rated Beginners' Open #10 results

October 28, 2017

Bill Brock

Tournaments

Congratulations to clock winners Matthew Tibudan, who went 5-0 in the Under 1200, and Stefan Trif, who scored a perfect 4½-½ (Round 1 was a bye) in the Under 800 section!

Crosstables are here: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201710281192.0