The U.S. Championship and the Women's Championship began this afternoon: the only game in progress involves the #1 player in Illinois, GM Yury Shulman. FM John Bryant is up the Exchange, but Yury seems to have a (tricky) tablebase draw in hand...
After 112...Kc5!, White has no time to take: 113.Rxg4 hxg4 114.Kxg4 (otherwise the pawn queens) 114...Kd6 is a dead draw.
The game continues, so I hope this post is not a jinx. (Update: drawn in 130 moves.)
Our other local representative, WIM Viktorija Ni, drew comfortably against WGM Camilla Baginskaite
After 112...Kc5!, White has no time to take: 113.Rxg4 hxg4 114.Kxg4 (otherwise the pawn queens) 114...Kd6 is a dead draw.
The game continues, so I hope this post is not a jinx. (Update: drawn in 130 moves.)
Our other local representative, WIM Viktorija Ni, drew comfortably against WGM Camilla Baginskaite
