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The 2008 FKB US Chess Championship, Tulsa, OK, May 13-21

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Yury Shulman wins U.S. Championship!
2. Alex Onischuk 3. Sergey Kudrin

4-6 J. Friedel, E. Perelshteyn, V. Akobian

GM Yury Shulman is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and an MBA specializing in Finance.

Anna Zatonskih wins US Women's Championship
2. Irina Krush 3-4 K. Rohonyan & Tatev Abrahamyan

IM Anna Zatonskih has a one year old daughter, Sofia and is married to Latvian-born German Chess Champion GM Daniel Fridman.

IM Anna Zatonskih lives in New York, has a one year old daughter Sofia and is married for Latvian-born German Chess Champion GM Daniel Fridman

Chess Quotes

And for the chess-player the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named "combination."

-Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941)