Hurricane Helene Update: The hotel is open again and the chess tournament will be held as scheduled. The area is severely damaged but access to the hotel is clear. Wilder has made contact after nearly a month without power. He survived not only the hurricane but also a tornado!
I-40 west of Asheville is expected to be open prior to the tournament. (NCDOT Press Release)
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville NC, United States"]
[Date "2024.02.04"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Bynum, Jacorey"]
[Black "Michelman, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2167"]
[BlackElo "1900"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. Bxc6 Nxc6 6. d4 cxd4 7.
Nxd4 d6 8.
Be3 Be7 9. Qe2 Bf6 10. Rd1 O-O 11. Na3 d5 12. c4 Re8 13. Rac1 Nxd4 14.
Bxd4 e5
15. Bc3 d4 16. c5 Be6 17. b4 Qd7 18. Be1 Red8 19. Rd3 a6 20. Nc4 Bxc4
21. Rxc4
Rac8 22. Rc1 Qb5 23. Rcd1 Re8 24. g3 h6 25. a3 Qc6 26. Bd2 Re6 27. Re1
Rce8 28.
Qd1 b6 29. cxb6 Qxb6 30. Qb3 Rc6 31. a4 Rec8 32. Rb1 Rc2 33. Qd5 Rd8 34.
Qb3
Rdc8 1/2-1/2
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville NC, United States"]
[Date "2024.02.04"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wang, Aaron"]
[Black "Bynum, Jacorey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1916"]
[BlackElo "2167"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 b6 7. cxd5 Nxd5
8.
Bxe7 Nxe7 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. O-O Bb7 11. Rc1 h6 12. Qe2 c5 13. Be4 Qb8 14.
Rfd1
cxd4 15. Nxd4 Nf6 16. Bxb7 Qxb7 17. Qf3 Qxf3 18. Nxf3 a6 19. h3 b5 20.
a3 Rfb8
21. b4 Rd8 22. Ne5 Rac8 23. Nd3 Rc4 24. Kf1 Ned5 1/2-1/2
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville NC, United States"]
[Date "2024.02.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Bynum, Jacorey"]
[Black "Rosario, Salvador"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2167"]
[BlackElo "2132"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. O-O a6 6. Bd3 d6 7. Nxd4
cxd4 8.
Ne2 e5 9. Ng3 Nf6 10. c3 dxc3 11. dxc3 Be7 12. Qe2 O-O 13. Rd1 Qc7 14.
h3 Be6
15. Be3 d5 16. Bg5 dxe4 17. Nxe4 Nxe4 18. Bxe7 Nxc3 19. Bxh7+ Kxh7 20.
Qc2+ Kg8
21. Bxf8 Rxf8 22. bxc3 Rc8 23. Rab1 g6 24. Qb2 b5 25. Rbc1 Qc4 26. a3 a5
27.
Qd2 Kg7 28. Re1 Rc5 29. Qd8 Qa4 30. Ra1 Rxc3 31. Rxe5 Rxa3 32. Rxa3 Qxa3
33.
Qd4 Kg8 34. Rxb5 Qc1+ 35. Kh2 Qc7+ 36. f4 Kh7 37. Rc5 Qb7 38. Rxa5 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville NC, United States"]
[Date "2024.02.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rambha, Hemachandra"]
[Black "Bereolas, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2164"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Bb5 Ne4
8. cxd4
Bb6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Be3 f6 11. Qb3 Nxc3 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. Qxc3 Bg4 14.
exf6 Bxf3
15. fxg7 Re8 16. gxf3 Qf6 17. O-O-O Re6 18. h4 Qxf3 19. h5 a5 20. h6 a4
21. a3
Ba5 22. Qc2 c5 23. Qxc5 Rb6 24. Rh4 Rf6 25. Rg1 c6 26. Kb1 Bd8 27. Rf4
Rxf4 28.
Qxc6 Qe4+ 29. Ka1 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville NC, United States"]
[Date "2024.02.03"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Abraham, John"]
[Black "Suich, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2119"]
[BlackElo "2217"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qb3 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bg4 6. Nc3 Bxf3 7. gxf3
Nbd7
8. e4 e5 9. Be3 Bd6 10. O-O-O Qe7 11. d5 O-O 12. Rg1 Rfc8 13. Kb1 Nb6
14. Qd3
cxd5 15. exd5 Bb4 16. d6 Qe6 17. Nb5 Nbd5 18. Rg3 Nxe3 19. Qxe3 Qf5+ 20.
Bd3
Qf4 21. Rg5 Qxe3 22. fxe3 a6 23. Nc7 Rab8 24. Bf5 Rd8 25. d7 Be7 26. Rg2
Kf8
27. Rc2 g6 28. Bh3 e4 29. f4 h5 30. Rd4 Ng4 31. Bxg4 hxg4 32. Rcd2 Bc5
33. Rxe4
Bb6 34. Rc4 Bxe3 35. Re2 b5 36. Rc6 Rb6 37. Rxb6 1-0 [Event "Land of the
Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville, NC"]
[Date "2024.02.04"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Hogue, Dalton"]
[Black "Kore, Anvika"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bb4+ 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O d6 7. Qb3
Qe7 8.
Nxc3 Nf6 9. Nd5 Qxe4 10. Nxb4 Qg6 11. Re1+ Kf8 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Ng5 d5
14. Bd3
Qh5 15. Qb4+ Kg8 16. Qe7 Be6 17. Nxe6 Re8 18. Qxc7 fxe6 19. Bf4 Qf7 20.
Qxc6 Nh5
21. Bg3 g6 22. Re3 Nxg3 23. Rxg3 Rf8 24. Rf3 Qe7 25. Rxf8+ Kxf8 26. Re1
Kf7 27.
Re3 Re8 28. Rh3 Kg7 29. Rg3 Rf8 30. Qc2 Rf6 31. h4 Kg8 32. h5 e5 33.
hxg6 e4 34.
Qc8+ Rf8 35. gxh7+ Kh8 36. Rg8+ Kxh7 37. Rxf8 exd3 38. Qh3+ Kg7 39. Qh8+
Kg6 40.
Rg8+ Kf5 41. Qh5+ Kf6 42. Qg6+ Ke5 43. Re8 Qxe8 44. Qxe8+ Kd4 45. Qe3+
Kc4 46.
b3+ Kc3 47. Qe5+ Kd2 48. Qxd5 Ke2 49. g4 Kd2 50. g5 Ke2 51. f4 d2 52. f5
d1=Q+
53. Qxd1+ Kxd1 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXVI"]
[Site "Asheville, NC"]
[Date "2024.02.04"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Mashali, Farzin"]
[Black "Montague, Kyle"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C54"]
[Annotator "Farzin"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 a5 6. a4 h6 7. Nbd2 d6 8.
Bb3 O-O 9. Qe2 Bg4 10. h3 Be6 11. Bc2 d5 12. g4 Nh7 13. exd5 Bxd5 14.
Ne4 Be7 15. h4 f5 16. gxf5 Rxf5 17. Be3 Nf6 18. Rg1 Kh8 19. Nfg5 $3 Qf8
20. Ng3 Rf4 21. Bxf4 exf4 22. N3e4 $1 hxg5 23. hxg5 Nxe4 (23... Nd7 24.
Rh1+ Kg8 25. Qh5 Qe8 26. Qh8+ Kf7 27. g6+ Ke6 28. Qh3+ Ke5 29. d4+ Nxd4
30. cxd4+ Kxd4 31. Qc3#) (23... f3 24. Qxf3 Nxe4 25. Qh5+ Kg8 26. dxe4
Be6 27. e5 Qf7 28. Qh2 $18) 24. dxe4 (24. Qh5+ Kg8 25. dxe4 Be6 26. g6
Qf6 {White can sac the Queen!} 27. Rh1 Kf8 28. Qh8+ Bg8 29. Qxg8+ Kxg8
30. Bb3+ Qe6 31. Bxe6+ Kf8 32. Rh8#) (24. Rh1+ $2 Kg8 $11) 24... f3 25.
Qd3 Be6 26. e5 Kg8 27. Qh7+ Kf7 28. Bg6# 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXV"]
[Site "Asheville NC"]
[Date "2023.02.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Baliga, Zubin M"]
[Black "Bereolas, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C96"]
[WhiteElo "2124"]
[BlackElo "2286"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6
8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Nd7 12. Nbd2 exd4 13. cxd4 Nc6 14. d5
Nce5 15.
Nxe5 Nxe5 16. f4 Ng6 17. Nf3 Bh4 18. Nxh4 Qxh4 19. f5 Ne5 20. Be3 Bd7
21. Bf2
Qe7 22. Qh5 g6 23. Qh6 f6 24. fxg6 hxg6 25. Bg3 Qg7 26. Qxg7+ Kxg7 27.
Bxe5
fxe5 28. Rf1 Rf4 29. Rxf4 exf4 30. Rf1 Rf8 31. Rf3 g5 32. Kf2 Rh8 33.
Rd3 Kf6
34. Bd1 Ke5 35. Bf3 b4 36. b3 Rc8 37. Rd2 c4 38. bxc4 a5 39. Be2 Kxe4
40. Bd3+
Ke5 41. Kf3 a4 42. Be2 b3 43. axb3 axb3 44. Rb2 Ba4 45. Rd2 Rb8 46. Kg4
Bd7+
47. Kxg5 Rg8+ 48. Kh4 Rxg2 49. Rd3 b2 0-1
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXV"]
[Site "Asheville NC"]
[Date "2023.02.05"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wu, Andrew "]
[Black "Ammasani, Smayan "]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "1811"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Na3 Bf5 7. Bc4
Qd7 8.
Bf4 e6 9. Ne5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 Qxd1+ 11. Rxd1 Nd7 12. Nb5 Kd8 13. O-O a6
14. Nd6
Bxd6 15. Rxd6 Kc7 16. Rfd1 Rad8 17. Bg5 f6 18. exf6 Nxf6 19. Bf4 Kc8 20.
Rc6+
bxc6 21. Bxa6# 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXV"]
[Site "Asheville, NC"]
[Date "2023.02.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Johnson, Roger"]
[Black "Ang, Timothy"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1904"]
[BlackElo "1683"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. d4 d5 5. e3 Bd6 6. Bd3 h6 7. h3 O-O 8.
O-O b6
9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Bb7 11. Nxd6 Qxd6 12. Be3 Na6 13. Rc1 Rfd8 14. Bb1
c5 15.
dxc5 Qxd1 16. Rfxd1 Bxf3 17. Rxd8+ Rxd8 18. cxb6 Bc6 19. bxa7 Ne4 20. a3
Nac5
21. Bxe4 Nxe4 22. b4 Nd6 23. b5 Ba8 24. a4 Nf5 25. Bb6 Rc8 26. c5 Ne7
27. a5
Nd5 28. f3 Nf4 29. Rd1 Ne2+ 30. Kf2 Nc3 31. Rd3 Nxb5 32. Ke3 Kf8 33. Rb3
Bc6
34. Kd3 Ke7 35. Rb2 Ra8 36. a6 Nxa7 37. Bxa7 Rxa7 38. Rb6 Bd5 39. Kc3
Kd7 40.
Kb4 Bc6 41. Ka5 Kc7 42. Rb4 g5 43. h4 gxh4 44. Rxh4 Bb7 45. Rxh6 Bxa6
46. Rh2
Kc6 47. Kb4 Bb5 48. Rh7 Rb7 49. Rg7 Bd3+ 50. Kc3 Bg6 51. Kd4 Rb8 52. g4
Kd7 53.
f4 Ke7 54. c6 Kf6 55. Rxg6+ fxg6 56. Kc5 e5 0-1
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXV"]
[Site "Asheville NC"]
[Date "2023.02.05"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Doan, Emily"]
[Black "Mashali, Farzin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1497"]
[BlackElo "1445"]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Nf6 4. d4 Nxd5 5. dxc5 Nc6 6. Nf3 e6 7. b4 Bd7
8. Bc4
Ndxb4 9. cxb4 Qf6 10. Qc2 Nxb4 11. Qb3 Bxc5 12. Bb2 Qg6 13. O-O Bc6 14.
a3 Nd5
15. Ne5 Qh5 16. Nxc6 bxc6 17. Qg3 Kd7 18. Re1 Rab8 19. Be5 Rbe8 20. Nc3
f6 21.
Qxg7+ Be7 22. Nxd5 exd5 23. Bxf6 Rhg8 24. Rxe7+ Kd6 25. Rd7+ Kc5 26.
Be7+ Kxc4
27. Rc1+ Kd3 28. Qc3+ Ke4 29. Re1+ Kf5 30. Re5+ Kg4 31. Rxh5 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXV"]
[Site "Asheville NC"]
[Date "2023.02.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chatta, Sathvik"]
[Black "Medida, Abhijay Srikar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C79"]
[WhiteElo "1358"]
[BlackElo "1199"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. d4 b5 7. dxe5 dxe5
8.
Qxd8+ Nxd8 9. Bb3 Bd6 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Nh4 Bb7 12. Re1 Bb4 13. Re3 Bxc3
14. Rxc3
Nxe4 15. Rxc7 Rb8 16. f3 Nd6 17. Rd7 Nc8 18. Be3 Bc6 19. Rc7 Rb7 20.
Rxc8 a5
21. Rd1 Bd7 22. Ra8 h6 23. Bd5 Rc7 24. Bb6 Rxc2 25. Rxd8 Rxd8 26. Bxd8
Kf8 27.
Bb3 Rc6 28. Rxd7 Ke8 29. Rd1 a4 30. Bd5 Rd6 31. Bb3 Rxd1+ 32. Bxd1 Kxd8
33. Nf5
Kd7 34. Bc2 Ke6 35. Nxg7+ Kf6 36. Ne8+ Ke7 37. Nc7 Kd7 38. Nxb5 Kc6 39.
Bxa4
Kc5 40. g4 Kc4 41. Nd6+ Kd5 42. Nxf7 e4 43. fxe4+ Kxe4 44. b4 Kd5 45.
Nxh6 Kc4
46. a3 Kd5 47. b5 Kc5 48. g5 Kd5 49. g6 Ke6 50. g7 Ke7 51. g8=Q Kd7 52.
Qd5+
Kc8 53. Qf7 Kb8 54. b6 Kc8 55. Qc7# 1-0
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXIV"] [Site "Asheville NC"] [Date
"2022.02.04"] [Round "1"] [White "Kumar, Arya"] [Black "Smith, Bryan"]
[Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2087"] [BlackElo "2540"]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5
4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Na3 cxd4 7. Nb5 O-O-O 8. cxd4 e5 9. Qa4 Bb4+ 10.
Bd2 Bxd2+ 11. Nxd2 Kb8 12. Bc4 Qxg2 13. O-O-O a6 14. Nc3 exd4 15. Rdg1
dxc3 16. Rxg2 cxd2+ 17. Kd1 Be4 18. Rhg1 Bf3+ 19. Be2 Bxg2 20. Qf4+ Ka8
21. Rxg2 Nge7 22. Rxg7 Rd4 23. Qxf7 Rc8 24. Rg4 Rd5 25. Rc4 Rg8 26. Rg4
Rgd8 27. Re4 Rc5 28. Rc4 Rf5 29. Qxh7 Rxf2 30. Re4 Nf5 31. Qc7 Rg2 32.
Qf4 Ncd4 33. Qxd2 Rg1+ 34. Bf1 Rxf1+ 0-1 [Event "Land of the Sky XXXIV"]
[Site "Asheville NC"] [Date "2022.02.05"] [Round "3"] [White "Horobetz,
Graham"] [Black "Smith, Bryan"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2347"]
[BlackElo "2540"] 1. e4 e6 2.
d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3
Bd6 9. Qe2 Qc7 10. Nf3 dxe4 11. Qxe4 Nf6 12. Qh4 c5 13. Bg5 Nd5 14. O-O
Bc6 15. Rfe1 Nf4 16. Bxf4 Bxf4 17. Ng5 O-O-O 18. Be4 Bd2 19. Re2 Bb5 20.
Bd3 0-1 [Event "Land of the Sky XXXIV"] [Site "Asheville NC"] [Date
"2022.02.06"] [Round "5"] [White "Sheehan, Ethan Thomas"] [Black "Smith,
Bryan"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2288"] [BlackElo "2540"] 1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5.
Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 Na6 7. O-O e5 8. Qc2 Nb4 9. Qd1 a5 10. a3 Nc6 11. d5 Ne7
12. Nd2 Bd7 13. b3 Nc8 14. Bb2 c5 15. Nb5 Bh6 16. Bd3 Nh5 17. Re1 Nf4
18. Bf1 Qg5 19. Kh1 f5 20. Bc3 Nh5 21. b4 b6 22. bxa5 bxa5 23. exf5 gxf5
24. Nf3 Qg6 25. Rxe5 Nf6 26. Re2 Ne4 1/2-1/2
[Event "Land of the Sky XXXIV"] [Site "Asheville NC"] [Date "2022.02.05"]
[Round "3"] [White "Hanna, John"] [Black "Sankaranarayanan, Shivkumar"]
[Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1723"] [BlackElo "1823"] [ECO "E91"]
[Opening "King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation"]
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7
7. h3 e5 8. d5 a6 9. Bg5 Qe8 10. O-O h6 11. Be3 Nh5
12. Qd2 Kh7 13. Ne1 Nhf6 14. Nd3 Ng8 15. b4 f5 16. exf5 gxf5 17. f3 f4
18. Bf2 Ndf6 19. Rfe1 Kh8 20. Rad1 Qg6 21. Kh2 Nh5 22. Ne4 Ngf6 23. Rg1
Nxe4 24. fxe4 Ng3 25. Ne1 Rg8 26. Bxg3 Qxg3+ 27. Kh1 Bxh3 28. Qd3 Qxd3
29. Rxd3 Bd7 30. g4 Bf6 31. Rh3 Kh7 32. Rg2 Rg6 33. Rgh2 Rag8 34. Rh5
Kg7 35. Ng2 Bxg4 36. Bxg4 Rxg4 37. Rxh6 Kf7 38. Rh7+ Ke8 39. Rxc7 f3 40.
Rc8+ Bd8 {0-1 White resigns.} 0-1 PGN viewer is
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