The Gang’s All Here: Day 5 in Orlando

With today’s start of the 4-Day schedule, all Open players are now in the competition. The 4-Day schedule sees four games of G/60 action today, followed by two G/60 games tomorrow, after which all schedules merge Friday night. The 4-Day schedule is also stacked, as we see in these photos taken before Round 1. The first rounds of the 4-Day is ongoing as this goes to press, but you can always keep up with results and pairings at our U.S. Open information site. Meanwhile, the Six-Day is also playing its fourth round at this hour. Seven perfect scores remain after yesterday’s Rounds 2 and 3: GM Illia Nyzhnyk, GM Elshan Moradiabadi, IM Bryce Tiglon, Chao Zhang, FM Justin Paul, Emily Nguyen, and Dex Webster. Nyzhnyk plays White against Zhang in Round 4, while Moradiabadi has Black against Paul. Nyzhnyk has breezed through the first three rounds, with no game going longer than 32 moves. Moradiabadi had to conjure some magic to stay perfect in Round 2, where he managed to win a drawn ending again Pranav Prem.

[pgn]

[Event "2019 US Open"]
[Date "2019.08.07"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Prem, Pranav"]
[Black "Moradiabadi, Elshan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A77"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 a6 7. a4 g6 8. Nd2
Bg7 9. e4 O-O 10. Be2 Nbd7 11. O-O Re8 12. f3 Ne5 13. Nc4 Nxc4 14. Bxc4 Nd7 15.
Be3 f5 16. Qd2 Ne5 17. Be2 Bd7 18. Kh1 Rb8 19. a5 Nf7 20. Bd3 b5 21. axb6 Qxb6
22. Ra2 a5 23. exf5 gxf5 24. f4 Qb3 25. Rxa5 Qxb2 26. Qxb2 Rxb2 27. Nd1 Rb3 28.
Bc2 Rb7 29. h3 Kf8 30. Re1 Rb4 31. Rf1 Nh6 32. Rf2 Reb8 33. Ra6 R4b6 34. Ra7
Be8 35. Bd2 Bf7 36. Ba5 R6b7 37. Bc7 Rxa7 38. Bxd6+ Kg8 39. Bxb8 Rb7 40. Bd6
Bd4 41. Re2 Bxd5 42. Be5 Bc4 43. Rd2 Bxe5 44. fxe5 Re7 45. Ne3 Bf7 46. Rd8+ Kg7
47. Nxf5+ Nxf5 48. Bxf5 Rxe5 49. Bg4 Kf6 50. Kh2 c4 51. Rc8 Re3 52. Kg1 Ra3 53.
Kf2 c3 54. Ke1 Bg6 55. Bd1 Ke5 56. Rc7 Kf4 57. Rc4+ Kg3 58. Rg4+ Kh2 59. Bf3
Ra1+ 60. Ke2 c2 0-1

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IM David Vigorito pulled off an even more spectacular feat in Round 2, drawing a position against Daniel Reilly that the engine gives as +13.

[pgn]

[Event "2019 US Open"]
[Date "2019.08.07"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Reilly, Daniel"]
[Black "Vigorito, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A04"]
[PlyCount "139"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d3 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O e5 7. c3 Nge7 8. Bd2
O-O 9. Na3 h6 10. Nc2 d5 11. c4 d4 12. b4 b6 13. Nfe1 Be6 14. b5 Nb8 15. f4 Nd7
16. Nf3 Qc7 17. Nce1 Rae8 18. a4 f5 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. fxe5 g5 21. Qe2 Ng6 22.
exf5 Bxf5 23. Bd5+ Kh7 24. Qh5 Ne7 25. Bf7 Rxf7 26. Qxf7 Bg6 27. Qf3 Rf8 28.
Qe2 Rxf1+ 29. Kxf1 Bxe5 30. a5 Bf5 31. axb6 axb6 32. Bxg5 hxg5 33. Qh5+ Kg7 34.
Qxg5+ Kf7 35. Qh5+ Bg6 36. Qf3+ Kg7 37. Ng2 Nf5 38. Re1 Bd6 39. Kf2 Nh6 40. Re6
Be5 41. Nh4 Bh7 42. Qh5 Nf7 43. Nf5+ Bxf5 44. Qxf5 Kf8 45. Rc6 Qe7 46. Rxb6 Bd6
47. Ra6 Qe3+ 48. Kg2 Qd2+ 49. Kf3 Kg7 50. Ra7 Qe3+ 51. Kg2 Be7 52. Qf3 Qe6 53.
b6 Ng5 54. Qh5 Qe3 55. Ra2 Qxd3 56. Re2 Bf6 57. h4 Nf7 58. b7 Qb1 59. Qg4+ Kh6
60. Qc8 Be5 61. Rxe5 Nxe5 62. Qf8+ Kg6 63. b8=Q Qe4+ 64. Kf1 Qh1+ 65. Ke2 d3+
66. Ke3 Qg1+ 67. Kd2 Qg2+ 68. Ke3 Qg1+ 69. Kd2 Qg2+ 70. Ke3 1/2-1/2

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The 9-Day continues to chug along, and tonight will mark its sixth round of play. Three players are at 4.5/5: GMs Kamil Dragun and Victor Mikhalevski, who played a quintessential “Grandmaster Draw” in last night’s fifth round, and Martin Hansen. Hansen defeated Andrew Miller to claim his share of first place.

[pgn]

[Event "2019 US Open"]
[Date "2019.08.07"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Miller, Andrew J"]
[Black "Hansen, Martin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "1983"]
[BlackElo "2225"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 c5 5. b3 Be7 6. Bb2 O-O 7. Nbd2 b6 8. Qe2
Bb7 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Ne5 Ne4 11. Nxd7 Qxd7 12. Bxe4 dxe4 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. Qg4
f5 15. Qe2 Qc6 16. a3 a5 17. Rad1 Rf7 18. g3 Re8 19. c3 e5 20. b4 Bf8 21. b5
Qe6 22. c4 f4 23. Rfe1 Qg6 24. Nb3 a4 25. Na1 h5 26. Nc2 h4 27. g4 f3 28. Qf1
Qxg4+ 29. Kh1 g5 30. h3 Qe6 31. Nb4 Rg7 32. Nd5 Bc5 33. Kh2 Bc8 34. Qh1 Qxh3+
35. Kg1 Qf5 36. Kf1 g4 37. Rc1 g3 38. fxg3 hxg3 39. Qh4 Qh3+ 40. Qxh3 Bxh3+ 41.
Kg1 f2+ 42. Kh1 fxe1=Q+ 43. Rxe1 Kf7 0-1

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Behind them are 11 players at 4/5, including GM Jim Tarjan and FM Macon Shilbut. Tarjan is scheduled to play Black tonight against Dragun, while Shilbut gets Mikhalevski with White. Side Events J. Timothy Sage won the 2019 U.S. G/15 Championship with a perfect 5/5. Two players - Dalton Perrine and Daniel Cheng - tied for 2nd place with 4/5. Winners in the Wednesday Quads were, by section: P: Daniel Brashaw; Q: James Weisz; R: Varshini Venkat. Delegates Meetings The Delegates Meetings continue today, with the Executive Board meeting in Open Session this morning https://twitter.com/USChess/status/1159477571261816834 Other meetings included the Rules Committee, the Governance Task Force, and the Accessibility & Special Circumstances Committee. Flying on a jetplane... Finally, IM Kostya Kavutskiy’s Game of the Day series will not appear today, as he is travelling to Orlando to co-host the U.S. Open livestream with IM Eric Rosen beginning tomorrow night. He will present a ‘two-fer’ in tomorrow’s edition.

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