2025 U.S. Chess Championships: Round 11 | Caruana & Wesley Race for the Title!

October 23, 2025 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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America’s top chess players compete in the most prestigious national championship in the world! It’s the 2025 U.S. & U.S. Women’s Chess Championships, live at the newly-expanded Saint Louis Chess Club. Today is the last round in regulation (pairings below). Join GMs Yasser Seirawan & Maurice Ashley, and WGMs Katerina Nemcova & Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.

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U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 11 | 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
Levon Aronian (6) vs. Fabiano Caruana (7.5)
Wesley So (7) vs. Grigoriy Oparin (4.5)
Ray Robson (4) vs. Sam Sevian (5.5)
Sam Shankland (4) vs. Awonder Liang (4.5)
Hans Niemann (5) vs. Dariusz Swiercz (3.5)
Abhimanyu Mishra (3.5) vs. Andy Woodward (5)

U.S. WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 11 | 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
Alice Lee (6.5) vs. Anna Sargsyan (6.5)
Anna Zatonskih (6) vs. Irina Krush (6.5)
Thalia Cervantes (3) vs. Carissa Yip (7)
Nazi Paikidze (5.5) vs. Rose Atwell (5)
Tatev Abrahamyan (4.5) vs. Jennifer Yu (5.5)
Atousa Pourkashiyan (2) vs. Megan Paragua (2)

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