Category: U.S. Championship 2018

  All Images Courtesy Of Derrick Bartotto   Round 10 Images     Round 11 Images     https://uschesschamps.com/2017-us-championships/overview   Continue reading

  Photo from official site (URL below) shows Sam Shankland beating Alexander Onischuk in the 10th round with Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana looking on.   Samuel Shankland wins a clear first in the 2018 U.S. Championship.  It was a close/hard race.  Fabiano Caruana finished in clear second place a… Continue reading

    Into the final stretch – Round 10 featured five wins out of six games – Wow.  Everybody’s Hungry.   It is nip and tuck as we head into the last round – tomorrow.   # Name Pts SB 1 Shankland, Samuel L 7.5 34 2 Caruana, Fabiano 7… Continue reading

  Samuel Shankland   Samuel Shankland is having a great tournament.  He has been near the lead, tied with the lead, and is now in exclusive first place having won the single decisive game in the 9th round of the U.S. Championship 2018.  This is the 9th round and there… Continue reading

  All Images Courtesy Of Derrick Bartotto   There were two decisive games this round. One by Lenderman over Awonder and the other game was a really/really long game with Robson defeating Akobian in a game that was 144 moves long. This went right down to King/Bishop/Knight against a lone… Continue reading

  All Images Courtesy Of Derrick Bartotto   Caruana defeating Akobian   Three Victories In The 7th Round Of The U.S. Championship 2018.    As a result there is now a tie for first.  All victories were with the White pieces.   Caruana defeated Akobian; Lenderman defeated Onischuk, and Isoria defeated… Continue reading

All Images Courtesy Of Derrick Bartotto   Sam Shankland (right playing Black) defeats Varuzhan Akobian to take the lead in the 2018 U.S. Championship.   All games in the fifth round were drawn – (Images Below)   There were two decisive games in the sixth round of the U.S. Championship… Continue reading

  All Images Courtesy Of Derrick Bartotto   Ray Robson vs Sam Shankland   There were two decisive games today in the fourth round of the U.S. Championship 2018 – and they were both big wins.  Sam Shankland jumped into a three-way tie for first place by soundly defeating Ray… Continue reading

    There were three victories in the third round of the U.S. Championship for 2018 and a three way tie for first place.   # Name Pts SB 1 Caruana, Fabiano 2.5 2.5   So, Wesley 2.5 2.5   Akobian, Varuzhan 2.5 2 4 Shankland, Samuel L 2 1.5… Continue reading