The Frank Berry U.S. Championship field (May 15-23) has been finalized. The 36-player field includes 2700+ favorites Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Onischuk, three female players and current Samford scholars David Pruess and Josh Friedel.

Start planning your seven-player fantasy chess team. There will be an average rating maximum, so no fair picking the top seven! The winner will receive a 80 GB video Ipod. Details to follow next week.

U.S. Championship field

GM Hikaru Nakamura 2755
GM Alex Onischuk 2712
GM Gregory Kaidanov 2686
GM Jaan Ehlvest 2669
GM Ildar Ibragimov 2664
GM Yury Shulman 2662
GM Boris Gulko 2660
GM Alex Shabalov 2660
GM Varuzhan Akobian 2651
GM Alex Stripunsky 2647
GM Alex Ivanov 2626
GM Sergey Kudrin 2612
GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2612
GM Julio Becerra 2608
GM Dmitry Gurevich 2591
GM Alex Yermolinsky 2571
IM Enrico Sevillano 2566
GM Melikset Khachiyan 2550
IM Josh Friedel 2544
GM Walter Browne 2520
IM Irina Krush 2480
FM Joseph Bradford 2475
IM David Pruess 2461
FM Robert Hess 2448
IM Justin Sarkar 2442
IM Bryan Smith 2441
IM Michael Mulyar 2440
IM Ron Burnett 2396
IM Jay Bonin 2381
FM Ray Robson 2359
FM Michael Langer 2334
FM Movses Movsisyan 2292
Michael Aigner 2282
WFM Chouchanik Airapetian 2188
WFM Irina Zenyuk 2186
Tom Braunlich 2148