After a great 2.5/3 start at the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam (August 12-22), Hikaru Nakamura faltered with a loss to Peter Svidler in round four.
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In round five, Nakamura's woes continued as he struggles at the time of writing in a tough rook endgame against World Cup Champion Boris Gelfand. Update: The game is over, and Hikaru is now on an even score. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a rest day.
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Nakamura in his fifth round battle against Gelfand, Photo Cathy Rogers
Hungary:
Ray Robson finished with 3/10 in the strong double round robin, the Gyorgy Marx Memorial (August 5-16, Paks, Hungary). A bright spot of his difficult tournament was his fascinating tactical struggle against legendary Dutch GM Jan Timman.
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Parker Zhao, Photo Suzy Gorman for CCSCSL
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Poland
Marc Arnold finished the World Junior (Chotowa, Poland, August 2-17) with 7.5/13 while Alisa Melekhina scored 8.5/13 in the Girls Under 20. See final standings in the World Junior and the Girls Section.
Alisa's attacking style helped her rack up points, like the following slashing win over Anya Corke of England.
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Also play through Marc Arnold's important Najdorf win over Brazilian GM Andre Diamant.
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The champions were Dmitry Andreikin of Russia for the World Junior and Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia in the Girls Under 20.
Greece
GMs Josh Friedel and Robert Hess both have 4/5 in the Negroponte tournament in Greece. You can download bulletins and watch live games on the official site.
Montreal
They do say that Montreal is the closest you can get to Europe in North America! Our North American Youth squad travels to Montreal, Canada (August 16-19).See a list of participants on the official site. Here are the players representing the USA:
Under 8
Praveen Balakrishnan
Grant Giovannetti
Aravind Kumar
Marcus Miyasaka
David Zhurbinsky
Under 8 Girls
Akshita Gorti
Grace Sowa
Under 10
Daniel Kubrynski
Albert Lu
Daniel Matlin
Michael Matlin
Matthew Miyasaka
Kadhir Pillai
Zachary Chen Tanenbaum
Jeffrey Xiong
Frederick Zhao
Under 10 Girls
Runjie (Jennifer) Liu
Samritha Palakollu
Shayna Provine
Under 12
Jacob Burman
Michael Chen
Peter Chen
Joshua Colas
Simon Kubrynski
Matthew Lim
Michael Kim
Edward Song
Justus Williams
Under 12 Girls
Kimberly Ding
Rachel Gita Gologorsky
Jennifer Lu
Apurva Virkud
Under 14
Andrew Ding
Brian Li
Jay Regam
Arthur Shen
Under 14 Girls
Jessica Regam
Eve Zhurbinskiy
Under 16
Michael Chiang
Alex Fikiet
Stuary Finney
William Fisher
Miles Gamble Hinson
Andrew Ng
Under 16 Girls
Fiona Lam
Anna Matlin
Darrian Robinson
Under 18
Victor Shen
Under 18 Girls
Yang Dai
Dianna Hu
Watch live games on Monroi.com and see an interview with Jeffrey Xiong on chesscampeona.com.