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Top Standings After Round 11:

1st Place (9.5 points):

GM Gabriel Schwartzman, GM Gregory Serper

2nd Place (9.0 points):

GM Alex Wojtkiewisc, GM Alex Yermolinsky, Ron Burnett, Alex Reprintsev

3rd Place (8.5 points):

GM Alex Ivanov, GM Alex Shabalov (bye rd.12), Angelo Young, IM Jon Schroer, Emory Tate, Miles Ardaman, John Curdo, Stanislav Ritvin

4th Place (8.0 points):

IM Larry Kaufman, Gregory Shahade, James Wheat, Michael Wierzbicki, David Sherman, Denis Strenzwilk, Fred Garcia, Andrew Whatley, Vinay Bhat

Factoids:

• Ritvin is currently Top Expert.
• There are 8 masters with 8 points.
• There are 8 Class A's with 7.0 points.

Selected Games of the Day:

• GM Wojtkiewicz-GM Schwartzman
• GM Serper-GM Alexander Ivanov
• GM Yermolinsky-Shahade
• Burnett-IM Kaufman

• All of the above in a single file.

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