2023 U.S. Junior & U.S. Senior Championships: Round 4

July 17, 2023 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Saint Louis Chess ClubMon, July 17, 2023 6:38pmURL:
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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.

2023.07.18
USChessChamps.com

ROUND 4 | 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
U.S. JUNIOR
Brandon Jacobson vs. Arthur Xu
Andrew Hong vs. Abhi Mishra

Jason Liang
vs. Kirk Ghazarian
Josiah Stearman vs. Balaji Daggupati
Justin Wang vs. Arthur Guo

U.S. SENIOR
Igor Novikov vs. Gregory Kaidanov
Joel Benjamin vs. Douglas Root
Dmitry Gurevich vs. Melik Khachiyan
Max Dlugy vs. Alexander Shabalov
Vladimir Akopian vs. Patrick Wolff

U.S. JUNIOR GIRLS’
Ruiyang Yan vs.
Rochelle Wu
Alice Lee vs. Zoey Tang
Rose Atwell vs. Iris Mou
Gracy Prasanna vs. Kelsey Liu
Shreya Mangalam vs. Carissa Yip

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