USA September 2009 FIDE rating list

United States of America (All players)

#	Name	Title	Fed	Rating	G	B-Year
1	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2735	17	1987
2	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2699	0	1975
3	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2692	32	1974
4	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	2646	0	1960
5	Shulman, Yuri	g	USA	2638	9	1975
6	Akobian, Varuzhan	g	USA	2636	9	1983
7-8	Ehlvest, Jaan	g	USA	2607	28	1962
7-8	Shabalov, Alexander	g	USA	2607	26	1967
9	Gurevich, Ilya	g	USA	2586	0	1972
10	Kaidanov, Gregory S	g	USA	2583	0	1959
11	Christiansen, Larry M	g	USA	2578	0	1956
12-13	Ibragimov, Ildar	g	USA	2577	6	1967
12-13	Polgar, Zsuzsa (Susan)	g	USA	2577	0	1969
14	Kudrin, Sergey	g	USA	2573	38	1959
15	Hess, Robert L	g	USA	2572	27	1991
16	Benjamin, Joel	g	USA	2566	17	1964
17	Wolff, Patrick G	g	USA	2564	0	1968
18	Novikov, Igor A	g	USA	2560	0	1962
19	Goldin, Alexander	g	USA	2557	0	1965
20	Friedel, Joshua E	g	USA	2555	19	1986
21-22	Stripunsky, Alexander	g	USA	2553	16	1970
21-22	De Firmian, Nick E	g	USA	2553	10	1957
23-24	Alburt, Lev O	g	USA	2550	0	1945
23-24	Dzindzichashvili, Roman	g	USA	2550	0	1944
25	Ivanov, Alexander	g	USA	2549	29	1956
26	Gulko, Boris F	g	USA	2546	0	1947
27-28	Lenderman, Alex	m	USA	2542	39	1989
27-28	Perelshteyn, Eugene	g	USA	2542	17	1980
29	Wilder, Michael	g	USA	2540	0	1962
30-31	Becerra Rivero, Julio	g	USA	2533	17	1973
30-31	Schwartzman, Gabriel	g	USA	2533	0	1976
32-33	Khachiyan, Melikset	g	USA	2528	11	1970
32-33	Yermolinsky, Alex	g	USA	2528	8	1958
34-35	Robson, Ray	m	USA	2527	25	1994
34-35	Kavalek, Lubomir	g	USA	2527	0	1943
36	Kraai, Jesse	g	USA	2526	36	1972
37	Tarjan, James E	g	USA	2525	0	1952
38	Serper, Grigory	g	USA	2522	0	1969
39	Fishbein, Alexander	g	USA	2520	0	1968
40	Dlugy, Maxim	g	USA	2518	0	1966
41	Finegold, Benjamin	m	USA	2515	8	1969
42	Sevillano, Enrico	m	USA	2512	18	1968
43	Sokolin, Leonid M	m	USA	2508	0	1966
44	Gurevich, Dmitry	g	USA	2506	22	1956
45	Rogoff, Kenneth S	g	USA	2505	0	1953
46	Sherzer, Alex	g	USA	2504	0	1971
47	Guerrero, Gilbert		USA	2500	0
48	Dozorets, Anatoly	f	USA	2495	0	1957
49	Addison, Wiliam G	m	USA	2490	0	1933
50	Gonzalez, Renier	g	USA	2485	0	1972

United States of America (All players) Only Women

#	Name	Title	Fed	Rating	G	B-Year
1	Polgar, Zsuzsa (Susan)	g	USA	2577	0	1969
2	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2462	9	1978
3	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2458	16	1983
4	Levitina, Irina S	wg	USA	2405	0	1954
5	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2391	0	1980
6	Donaldson-A., Elena	wg	USA	2375	0	1957
7	Rohonyan, Katerina	wg	USA	2329	0	1984
8	Shahade, Jennifer	wg	USA	2322	0	1980
9	Foisor, Sabina-Francesca	wg	USA	2320	27	1989
10	Baginskaite, Camilla	wg	USA	2317	0	1967
11	Akhsharumova, Anna M	wg	USA	2310	0	1957
12	Belakovskaia, Anjelina	wg	USA	2288	0	1969
13	Zenyuk, Iryna	c	USA	2285	7	1986
14-15	Abrahamyan, Tatev	wf	USA	2275	6	1988
14-15	Gershnik, Anna	wg	USA	2275	0	1975
16	Grinfeld, Alla B	wg	USA	2259	0	1953
17	Battsetseg, Tsagaan	wm	USA	2258	0	1972
18	Savereide, Diane	wm	USA	2250	0	1954
19	Hahn, Anna	wm	USA	2235	0	1976
20-21	Melekhina, Alisa	wm	USA	2220	39	1991
20-21	Levitan, Yuliya	wm	USA	2220	0	1973
22	Eynullaeva, Roza	wf	USA	2198	0	1987
23	Tverskaya, Julia	wm	USA	2195	0	1959
24	Epstein, Esther	wm	USA	2194	0	1954
25	Tsodikova, Natalia		USA	2190	0
26	Shiber, Julia	wf	USA	2182	0	1974
27	Koren, Inna	wm	USA	2180	0	1964
28-29	Marshall, Abby	wf	USA	2179	6	1991
28-29	Marinello, Beatriz M.	wm	USA	2179	0	1964
30	Herstein, Ruth		USA	2170	0

Source: FIDE - September 2009

August 2009 USCF rating lists

Top 50 Overall
August 2009 USCF Rating List:

1	Kamsky, Gata (12528459)	NY	USA	2799
2	Onischuk, Alexander (12625186)	VA	USA	2764
3	Nakamura, Hikaru (12641216)	NY	USA	2759
4	Shulman, Yury (12741541)	IL	USA	2712
5	Ehlvest, Jaan (12514557)	NY	USA	2697
6	Akobian, Varuzhan (12740522)	CA	USA	2695
7	Seirawan, Yasser (10509459)	WA	USA	2693
8	Hess, Robert L (12749774)	NY	USA	2677
9	Christiansen, Larry M (10460921)	MA	USA	2662
10	Kaidanov, Gregory (12543746)	KY	USA	2643
11	Benjamin, Joel (10102511)	NJ	USA	2641
12	Lenderman, Alex (12787646)	NY	USA	2638
13	Stripunsky, Alexander (12715435)	NJ	USA	2628
14	Ibragimov, Ildar (12576446)	CT	USA	2626
15	Shabalov, Alexander (12544264)	PA	USA	2624
16	Becerra, Julio J (12778049)	FL	USA	2616
17	Friedel, Joshua Edward (12593986)	NH	USA	2612
18	Gulko, Boris (12473035)	NJ	USA	2609
19	Finegold, Benjamin P (11264417)	MI	USA	2603
20	Kudrin, Sergey, (11257585)	CT	USA	2602
21	Polgar, Susan Zsuzsa (12452240)	TX	USA	2598
22	Fishbein, Alexander (12077910)	NJ	USA	2597
23	Khachiyan, Melikset (12827326)	CA	USA	2596
24	De Firmian, Nick E (10469007)	*FOR*	USA	2595
25	Moran, Augusto (12563207)	NY	USA	2591
26	Perelshteyn, Eugene (12627196)	MA	USA	2588
27	Yermolinsky, Alex (12534917)	SD	USA	2584
28	Goldin, Alexander (12556822)	KY	USA	2574
29	Sevillano, Enrico Manalili (12650696)	CA	USA	2569
30	Ivanov, Alexander (12513936)	MA	USA	2566
31	Root, Douglas D (10452881)	TX	USA	2565
32	Shankland, Samuel L (12852765)	CA	USA	2564
33	Duque, Raymond D (12470979)	TX	USA	2559
34	Robson, Ray (12847250)	FL	USA	2553
35	Kraai, Jesse (12442362)	CA	USA	2552
36	Gonzalez, Renier (12843801)	FL	USA	2550
37	Fedorowicz, John P (10604737)	NY	USA	2544
38	Ludwig, Daniel (12717400)	FL	USA	2543
39	Altounian, Levon (12625289)	AZ	USA	2538
40	Ippolito, Dean J (12445752)	NJ	USA	2535
41	Rohde, Michael A (10047871)	NY	USA	2530
42	Smith, Bryan G (12602587)	PA	USA	2528
43	Gurevich, Dmitry (12212800)	IL	USA	2523
44	Ashley, Maurice A (12357030)	NY	USA	2515
45	Lakdawala, Cyrus F (11486738)	CA	USA	2513
	Sagalchik, Gennady (12565070)	NY	USA	2513
47	Schneider, Dmitry (12577462)	NY	USA	2510
	Milman, Lev (21012681)	NY	USA	2510
49	Lapshun, Yury (12548533)	NY	USA	2504
	Bhat, Vinay S (12551720)	CA	USA	2504

Top 50 Women
August 2009 USCF rating list:

1	Polgar, Susan Zsuzsa (12452240)	TX	USA	2598
2	Zatonskih, Anna (12873912)	NY	USA	2496
3	Krush, Irina (12543137)	NY	USA	2478
4	Goletiani, Rusudan (12807449)	NY	USA	2437
5	Foisor, Sabina-Francesca (14012260)	MD	USA	2390
6	Baginskaite, Camilla (12716466)	CA	USA	2356
7	Abrahamyan, Tatev (12851435)	CA	USA	2334
8	Rohonyan, Katerine (12973020)	WA	USA	2331
9	Melekhina, Alisa (12726115)	PA	USA	2301
	Shahade, Jennifer (20058274)	PA	USA	2301
11	Zenyuk, Iryna (12846035)	NY	USA	2281
12	Battsetseg, Tsagaan (12719650)	MD	USA	2265
13	Epstein, Esther (12515912)	MA	USA	2209
14	Fan, Yun (14024290)	IN	USA	2201
15	Marinello, Beatriz (12537449)	NY	USA	2200
16	Marshall, Abby (12784803)	VA	USA	2181
17	Airapetian, Chouchanik (12629918)	WA	USA	2144
18	Eynullayeva, Roza (12817693)	MA	USA	2109
19	Sagalchik, Olga (12565069)	NY	USA	2107
20	Vicary, Elizabeth (12477355)	NY	USA	2106
21	Itkis, Hana (12667543)	NJ	USA	2061
	Dai, Yang (12897613)	VA	USA	2061
23	West, Vanessa A (12744619)	CA	USA	2056
24	Levina, Anna (12660143)	NY	USA	2052
25	Kats, Alena (12980885)	NY	USA	2032
26	Liu, Jennie S (12830124)	NJ	USA	2029
27	Chiang, Sarah (13091081)	TX	USA	2022
28	Teasley, Dorothy (10074258)	NY	USA	2014
	Mcvay, Karsten A (12744370)	NJ	USA	2014
30	Parrilla, Medina (12782436)	NY	USA	2004
31	Matlin, Anna R (12876169)	NJ	USA	2003
32	Root, Alexey Wilhelmina (10374651)	TX	USA	2000
	Jamison, Courtney (12746751)	TX	USA	2000
34	Mateer, Amanda Rae (12752032)	AZ	USA	1986
35	Livschitz, Louiza (12680221)	CA	USA	1981
36	Robinson, Darrian (12925651)	NY	USA	1980
37	Datta, Anjali (12783131)	TX	USA	1966
38	Kerr, Julia K (12696374)	TX	USA	1965
39	Litvak, Eve V (12799901)	NJ	USA	1963
40	Weiss, Annie (12590952)	NY	USA	1962
41	Lee, Megan (12902833)	WA	USA	1961
42	Skidmore, Jennifer M (12457851)	MI	USA	1958
43	Sobel, Simone (12607573)	CA	USA	1957
44	Yang, Sylvia Siyuan (12909161)	TX	USA	1951
45	Acon, Jennifer C (13313093)	CA	USA	1935
46	Ginzburg, Anna (12758604)	NY	USA	1909
47	Rodriguez, Eunice (12691412)	FL	USA	1908
48	Dimitrijevic, Vesna (12436451)	MA	USA	1907
49	Maffeo, Nicole (12808137)	NY	USA	1903
50	Zhu, Caroline (12888833)	TX	USA	1901

Source: USCF

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Texas Tech Commencement

Here is the link to the transcript of my Texas Tech commencement speech on 5-12-07.

Here is the link to my Texas Tech commencement video which was aired on CSPAN together with former President Bill Clinton and Oprah.

New semester starts at Texas Tech

Today is the first day of the new semester at Texas Tech University. TTU President Guy Bailey greeted the National Collegiate Champion IM Gergely Antal and some members of the SPICE group.

Who says that women can’t play chess well?

Chess Notes
By Harold Dondis and GM Patrick Wolff
August 24, 2009

Turning to national news, who says that women can’t play chess well?

One has difficulty defending that position if the Denker Tournament of High School Champions is any criterion. Abby Marshall of Virginia, who registered 5 consecutive wins against her male opponents and drew her last game with Michael Yang of Minnesota, took 1st place. She is the first female to win this tournament.

In an interview on the USCF’s website, http://www.uschess.org/, she attributed her success to good tactical positions in which she was able to sacrifice pieces against her opponents’ kingside. The Denker Tournament consists of high school champions from each state. This year two females represented their states - Abby from Virginia and Erica Barkell from Idaho. The tournament was founded by the late GM Arnold Denker and is currently strongly supported by his son, Mitchell Denker, a trustee of the US Chess Trust. Abby is a product of Susan Polgar’s All Girls’ Tournaments. These are events for girls 18 and under. She won the All Girls in 2005 and 2006.

Source: Boston Globe

Best selling book "The Fire" now in paperback

Trivia question: Which of my memorable game was used in the best selling book "The Fire" by my friend Katherine Neville?

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S BOOK LAUNCH
THE FIRE: NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK!
Aug 25, 2009

Welcome everyone! This note is to let you all know that THE FIRE --the sequel to The Eight--is on sale in trade paperback (large format), beginning on August 25, 2009!

THE FIRE: The Bestseller

THE FIRE--my long-awaited sequel to The Eight--has spent more than SIX MONTHS ON BESTSELLER LISTS around the world, including The New York Times (shown below on book jacket), The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Rocky Mountain News, and The Indie List. It also spent many months on bestseller lists around Europe, with many weeks as Numero Uno in Spain! see film of Spanish Tour

THE FIRE: The Rave Reviews

THE FIRE has been honored by fantastic reviews from prestigious publications all over the world. Here is a smattering of scintillating snatches, just from the USA: Publishers Weekly ("Stellar..."); Booklist ("Entrancing..."); The Washington Post ("The perfect escapist adventure"); The Chicago Sun-Times ("Impresses as much for its literary aspects as for its action, puzzles and suspense"); The Rocky Mountain News ("It was worth the wait"); and Library Journal ("Dan Brown stands on the shoulders of a giant... Ingenious puzzles, enthralling historical ambience, and masterful plot twists abound. More please!")

To read more reviews in more detail on my website please visit the Reviews and Quotes section.

THE FIRE: Ignites at THE NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL: National Mall, Washington DC
Saturday, September 26, 2009

I am one of a select group of authors who are honored by being chosen to appear at this year's National Book Festival, on the National Mall in the heart of Washington DC. Our Honorary Co-Chairs are Michelle and Barack Obama! I will be presenting at the Fiction and Fantasy Pavilion from 11:35 a.m. to 12:05 noon (along with John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, John Irving and other luminaries!)--and then I will be signing my books at the Borders Book Pavilion from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. For upcoming details of this and future events, please visit my website.

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