2023 U.S. Junior & U.S. Senior Championships: Round 3

July 16, 2023 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, 30 of the best junior, senior, and girl chess players (pairings below) compete in three concurrent round robin national championships for a total $150,000 prize fund. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Cristian Chirila, and WGM Katerina Nemcova for the move-by-move.

2023.07.17
USChessChamps.com

ROUND 3 | 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
U.S. JUNIOR
Abhi Mishra vs. Brandon Jacobson
Jason Liang vs. Justin Wang
Kirk Ghazarian
vs. Andrew Hong
Arthur Xu vs. Josiah Stearman
Balaji Daggupati

vs. Arthur Guo

U.S. SENIOR
Melik Khachiyan
vs. Joel Benjamin
Gregory Kaidanov vs. Vladimir Akopian
Patrick Wolff

vs. Alexander Shabalov
Douglas Root
vs. Igor Novikov
Dmitry Gurevich vs. Max Dlugy

U.S. JUNIOR GIRLS’
Kelsey Liu vs. Shreya Mangalam
Carissa Yip

vs. Iris Mou
Alice Lee vs. Rose Atwell
Rochelle Wu vs. Gracy Prasanna
Zoey Tang vs. Ruiyang Yan

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