Lenderman (USA) v Tari (NOR) in round two of the World Cup, Photo Cathy Rogers
The
GM Aleksander Lenderman is the lowest rated of the nine US Chess players who headed to Tbilisi for the World Cup (Sept 3-28.) Despite that, he is the first American through to round three. Lenderman drew the first game in his match against 18-year-old Aryan Tari, and won the second. Our remaining five contenders- Onischuk, Caruana, So, Nakamura and Sevian all playoff tomorrow for their spot in the round of 32 players. Follow along starting at 7 AM EST
on chess24, the
official site and the
chessbrah stream with GMs Yasser Seirawan and Eric Hansen. Look for GM Rogers' dispatch from Tbilisi tomorrow, and
find his first report here.
[pgn] [Event "Tbilisi FIDE World Cup"]
[Site "chess24.com"]
[Date "2017.09.07"]
[White "Lenderman, Aleksandr"]
[Black "Tari, Aryan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2565"]
[BlackElo "2588"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[WhiteTeam "United States"]
[BlackTeam "Norway"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "USA"]
[BlackTeamCountry "NOR"]
[WhiteClock "0:36:05"]
[BlackClock "0:01:58"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Qxd1+ 7. Kxd1 Nc6
8. e4 b6 9. Kc2 Bb7 10. Be3 e6 11. Nd2 Bd6 12. a4 Ke7 13. f3 Ne5 14. a5 h6 15.
h4 Bc6 16. h5 Nd7 17. Nc4 Bc7 18. Na3 bxa5 19. Bb5 Bxb5 20. Nxb5 Bb6 21. Bf4 e5
22. Bd2 Nb8 23. Na3 Nc6 24. Nc4 Ke6 25. Be3 Rac8 26. Kb3 Rhd8 27. Rhd1 Rb8 28.
Ka4 a6 29. Rxd8 Bxd8 30. Bxc5 Bc7 31. Rd1 g6 32. hxg6 fxg6 33. Rd2 Rb5 34. Bd6
Bd8 35. Bf8 Be7 36. Bxe7 Kxe7 37. Rd5 Na7 38. Rxe5+ Kf6 39. Rd5 1-0[/pgn]
Lenderman (USA) v Tari (NOR) in round two of the World Cup, Photo Cathy Rogers
