IM-elect Yaacov Norowitz finished the U.S. Championship on Sunday with an even score of 4.5/9, placing him in the exact middle of the 24-man field. Quite an accomplishment for his first U.S. Championship. I have annotated his last two games of the tournament below, or you can download the PGN.
GM Gata Kamsky won his tiebreak match with GM Alejandro Ramirez to take the Men's title, and IM Irina Krush took the Women's title by accepting a draw a pawn up in her last game. There is good coverage at ChessBase with a report by FM Mike Klein, who also wrote articles at the USCF website on the Men's final and Women's final Dana Mackenzie comments on the remarkable number of young players at the tournament in "Huge youth movement at the US Championship."
GM Gata Kamsky won his tiebreak match with GM Alejandro Ramirez to take the Men's title, and IM Irina Krush took the Women's title by accepting a draw a pawn up in her last game. There is good coverage at ChessBase with a report by FM Mike Klein, who also wrote articles at the USCF website on the Men's final and Women's final Dana Mackenzie comments on the remarkable number of young players at the tournament in "Huge youth movement at the US Championship."
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