[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: The 2008 US Chess Championships start today

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
The 2008 US Chess Championships start today
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   The [1]2008 U.S. Chess Championships, sponsored and directed by one
   Frank K. Berry, start today in Tulsa, OK (at 3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m.
   Tulsa time) and continue for nine rounds, one a day with no rest days,
   through May 21. There are separate men's and women's championships;
   the men have a 24-player Swiss System tournament while the women are
   in a 10-player single round-robin. Go figure.
   As for who is and isn't playing, the top seeds on the men's side are
   Onischuk, Shabalov and Kaidanov; Kamsky and Nakamura are absent. (In
   Kamsky's case this is understandable - he's probably tired from the
   FIDE Grand Prix in Baku and might be preparing for the world
   championship semi-final match with Topalov. As for Nakamura, I have no
   idea why he isn't playing, and there doesn't seem to be any info on
   [2]his blog explaining his absence. On the women's side, the US's (by
   far) two highest-rated women, Krush and Zatonskih, are both playing.
   Here are the men's pairings for round 1:
   1 Onischuk, Alexander 2728 - Kraai, Jesse 2569
   2 Yermolinsky, Alex 2568 - Shabalov, Alexander 2709
   3 Kaidanov, Gregory 2697- Friedel, Josh 2539
   4 Fedorowicz, John 2514 - Shulman, Yury 2676
   5 Akobian, Varuzhan 2666 - Ippolito, Dean 2512
   6 Pruess, David 2497 - Becerra, Julio 2648
   7 Ivanov, Alexander 2628 - Vigorito, David 2439
   8 Ludwig, Daniel 2429 - Perelshteyn, Eugene 2626
   9 Gulko, Boris 2623 - Kaufman, Larry 2384
   10 Langer, Michael 2307 - Finegold, Benjamin 2613
   11 Gurevich, Dmitry 2594 - Shankland, Sam 2299
   12 Galant, Sergey 2176 - Kudrin, Sergey 2588

References

   1. http://www.monroi.com/the-2008-fkb-us-chess-championship-home.html
   2. http://www.hikarunakamura.com/main/Blog/tabid/57/Default.aspx