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Chess Life Online 2011 May Shen Leads U.S. Cadet Chess Championships
Chess Life Online 2011 May Shen Leads U.S. Cadet Chess Championships | Shen Leads U.S. Cadet Chess Championships |
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| By Alan Kantor | |
| July 13, 2011 | |
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There is no doubt
about it. For the third year in a row,
the theme for the U.S. Cadet Championship (Crossville, July 12-15) is fighting chess. For the first two rounds of the Cadets, every
game ended decisively. The missiles are
out and they came to Crossville armed and ready. Arthur Shen leads the pack with a perfect 3/3
score. Two years ago, Arthur's brother Victor was number one seed in the 2009
U.S. Cadet Championship but Andrew Ng took first place. Victor is in attendance at the event. Check out the standings and games below to see for yourself. You can also follow all the games on www.monroi.com as they happen or review them later. Standings after round 3: Shen - 3; Bodek - 2½; Cao - 2; Ostrovskiy - 1½; Brown, Mo, Shetty - 1; Wang - 0 ROUND 1 Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation (B90) 5670 Slav Defense, Exchange Variation (D13) 5671 Sicilian Defense, Scheveningen Variation (B87) 5672 Sicilian Defense, Richter-Rauzer Variation (B66) 5674 ROUND 2 Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation (Yugoslav Attack) (B79) 5676 Closed Ruy Lopez (C90) 5678 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense (C65) 5677 Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation (B90) 5673 Round 3 Caro-Kann Defense (B10) 5679 Closed Ruy Lopez, Chigorin Defense (C97) 5680 Sicilian Defense, Velimirovic Attack (B89) 5681 Sicilian Defense (B53) 5682 |