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Six games, six draws. All games under 40 moves, four in less than 30 moves. GM Ian Rogers reports on the World Championship match in Moscow, and quotes Kasparov and Averbakh.
The battle all chess fans waited to see at the 2012 U.S. Championship did not disappoint. GM Hikaru Nakamura beat GM Gata Kamsky for the first time ever in classical chess to take over the lead by one-half point with one game to go.
The 2012 Elementary (K-6) National Championships, the last of the spring triumvirate of scholastic nationals, ended with 18 new individual champs in four Championship sections.
Kamsky caught up with Nakamura at the US Championship with a win over Stripunsky. The US Women's will see the much-anticipated Zatonskih-Krush battle today.
GM Hikaru Nakamura maintained the lead in the US Chess Championship while IM Irina Krush grabbed the sole lead at the US Women's with a win over Tatev Abrahamyan.
