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Holland: After a great 2.5/3 start at the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam (August 12-22), Hikaru Nakamura faltered with a loss to Peter Svidler in round four. 4750 In round five, Nakamura's woes continued as he struggles at the time of writing in a tough rook endgame against World Cup Champion Boris Gelfand. Update: The game is over, and Hikaru is now on an even score. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a rest day. 4753 
Nakamura in his fifth round battle against Gelfand, Photo Cathy Rogers
Hungary: Ray Robson finished with 3/10 in the strong double round robin, the Gyorgy Marx Memorial (August 5-16, Paks, Hungary). A bright spot of his difficult tournament was his fascinating tactical struggle against legendary Dutch GM Jan Timman. 4749 
Parker Zhao, Photo Suzy Gorman for CCSCSL
4746 4747 4748 Poland Marc Arnold finished the World Junior (Chotowa, Poland, August 2-17) with 7.5/13 while Alisa Melekhina scored 8.5/13 in the Girls Under 20. See final standings in the World Junior and the Girls Section. Alisa's attacking style helped her rack up points, like the following slashing win over Anya Corke of England. 4751 Also play through Marc Arnold's important Najdorf win over Brazilian GM Andre Diamant. 4752 The champions were Dmitry Andreikin of Russia for the World Junior and Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia in the Girls Under 20. Greece GMs Josh Friedel and Robert Hess both have 4/5 in the Negroponte tournament in Greece. You can download bulletins and watch live games on the official site. Montreal They do say that Montreal is the closest you can get to Europe in North America! Our North American Youth squad travels to Montreal, Canada (August 16-19).See a list of participants on the official site. Here are the players representing the USA: Under 8 Praveen Balakrishnan Grant Giovannetti Aravind Kumar Marcus Miyasaka David Zhurbinsky Under 8 Girls Akshita Gorti Grace Sowa Under 10 Daniel Kubrynski Albert Lu Daniel Matlin Michael Matlin Matthew Miyasaka Kadhir Pillai Zachary Chen Tanenbaum Jeffrey Xiong Frederick Zhao Under 10 Girls Runjie (Jennifer) Liu Samritha Palakollu Shayna Provine Under 12 Jacob Burman Michael Chen Peter Chen Joshua Colas Simon Kubrynski Matthew Lim Michael Kim Edward Song Justus Williams Under 12 Girls Kimberly Ding Rachel Gita Gologorsky Jennifer Lu Apurva Virkud Under 14 Andrew Ding Brian Li Jay Regam Arthur Shen Under 14 Girls Jessica Regam Eve Zhurbinskiy Under 16 Michael Chiang Alex Fikiet Stuary Finney William Fisher Miles Gamble Hinson Andrew Ng Under 16 Girls Fiona Lam Anna Matlin Darrian Robinson Under 18 Victor Shen Under 18 Girls Yang Dai Dianna Hu Watch live games on Monroi.com and see an interview with Jeffrey Xiong on chesscampeona.com. |
