Open Tennis tournament, as Senior Director of Strategic Communications Dan Lucas tells us in his piece on the event. Schut is a certified instructor in the Method.Īnd eight players took part in a U.S. Han Schut gave a well-attended seminar on the Stappenmethode (“Steps Method”), the official teaching system of the Dutch Chess Federation, and increasingly used across Europe and here in the States. The Delegates continued their schedule of Committee meetings yesterday here at the Rosen Centre, and as this goes to press, today’s Delegates Meeting is nearing its day’s end. While chess fans will certainly be focusing on the final two rounds of the Open, there’s a lot more going on here in Orlando. You can watch all the action on the US Chess livestream with IMs Kostya Kavutskiy and Eric Rosen on our Twitch channel. Tonight’s tenative pairings (subject to change, although top boards rarely do): Nyzhnyk – Mikhalevski, Swiercz – Moradiabadi, Tiglon – Bruzon Batista, Hungaski – Gareyev, Dragun – Paul, and Shabalov – Fernandez. Perhaps Moradiabadi (who nearly lost in Round 6, saving a draw against Tiglon), Paul, and Fernandez had the most interesting battles among the games broadcast on uschess.live.ġ. Of these eleven, Swiercz, Gareyev, Moradiabadi, Hungaski, Fernandez, Tiglon and Paul are eligible to win the seat in the 2020 U.S. They are joined there by seven others: GMs Kamil Dragun, Victor Mikhalevski, Elshan Moradiabadi, and Robert Hungaski IMs Daniel Fernandez and Bryce Tiglon, and FM Justin Paul. With these two draws, the four players enter tonight’s round 8 with 6/7.

Swiercz was down to 4 seconds before making his last move.ġ. The Gareyev-Swiercz game was also drawn, although it took quite a bit longer. GM Illia Nyzhnyk was one of them, continuing his impressive run of form in the Six-Day with this demolition of IM Justin Sarkar’s defenses in Friday’s afternoon round. Heading into the Merge, four players were at 5.5/6. Here Joe explains that, contrary to this club TD’s understanding, the Merge is actually not that difficult to pull off. And that has everything to do with the hard work in the backroom, headed by Backroom Chief Joe Yun. For information junkies like me, this can feel utterly nervewracking.īut this year’s Merge was different. With the Merge, however, pairings are sometimes delayed, posted right before games start at 7pm or (if memory serves) even just on paper in the ballroom. Today’s Open player is used to seeing pairings up on well before their rounds start. All three schedules are merged for Friday night’s Round 7. Trying to accommodate as many players as possible, US Chess offers three schedules for the Open: a 9-Day (one round a day), a 6-Day (two rounds a day), and a 4-day (up to four games a day).

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