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March
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2011
March
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The deadline for registration as a USCF voting member is March 31, midnight Central time. Don't miss out and pass the link on to friends: https://secure2.uschess.org/voter-registration.php
GMs Alexander Onischuk, Alexander Shabalov and 14-year-old Kevin Cao of Saint Louis tied for first at the Pittsburgh Open March 25-27th. Full story includes thoughts from Cao and games.
Armageddon Your Pieces (IM Javad Maharramzade, Matt Helfst, Jeremy Mandelkem and Peter Dyson) prevailed at this weekend's US Amateur Team Playoffs. Read Dyson's in-depth report.
Levon Aronian won the final Amber tournament in Monaco by a full point over Carlsen, who won the Rapid competition. Nakamura finished in the middle of the pack but ended with a banging win.
See a video interview by Ice Hat Creative with IM Daniel Naroditsky, the youngest participant in the upcoming US Championship. (Saint Louis, April 14-28).
Due to the increasing popularity of the Online Viewers for Chess Life
and CL4k, effective with the April/11 issues of these
magazines the USCF will no longer offer the HTML versions.
Macauley Peterson reports on GM Hikaru Nakamura's showing at the jubilee edition of the Amber Blind and Rapid tournament in Monte Carlo.
7 players tied for 1st at the Mid-America Open in Saint Louis
with IM Angelo Young topping on tiebreaks over GM Kudrin, GM Finegold, IM Burnett, FM Holt, FM Karklins and 14-y.o Jialin Ding.
University of Texas at Dallas sophomore Julio Sadorra scored his
final GM norm at the UTD Invitational (March 12-19). He annotates his
crucial win over GM Alexander Shabalov.
The Grandmaster team defeated the University of Texas at Dallas Team at
the UTD Grandmaster Invitational (March 12-19). But UTD was
still left with much to smile about, as UTD sophomore Julio Sadorra earned his final
GM norm.
Midway through the Amber rapid and blindfold tournament in Monaco, GM Levon Aronian of Armenia is in the clear lead, a point and a half ahead of World Champion Anand. American #1 Hikaru Nakamura is tied for sixth with Gelfand.
UTB student GM Axel Bachmann won the Western Class Championship. Randy Hough's report includes games by Axel and Tatev Abrahamyan, who tied for 2nd with IM Stopa.
At the 2011 Spring SPICE Cup Invitational held from March 12-16 at Texas Tech University, Darwin Yang earned his final
IM norm. Young author and IM Daniel Naroditsky tied for first with GM Davorin Kuljasevic.
The groups are set for the 2011 US Chess Champs at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Top seeds in Group 1 are Kamsky and Shulman while Onischuk and Seirawan are the frontrunners in Group 2.
