The Weekly Show: Awonder Liang vs Ray Robson

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10/27/2020 – In his weekly show IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the U.S. Championship, and focues on the game between Awonder Liang and Ray Robson, an entertaining, theoretically and tactically interesting encounter. | Lawrence’s show is available at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 14:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Awonder Liang vs Ray Robson

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year, the U.S. Championships are played online, as a 12-player round-robin rapid tournament. The shortened time-control led to a number of entertaining, fascinating games, e.g. the encounter between Awonder Liang and Ray Robson.

 
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1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Qe2 Nxe4 6.Qxe4 Nd7 7.Bc4 Nf6 8.Ne5 e6 9.Qe2 b5 10.Bd3 Qc7 11.a4 Bd6 12.Nxc6 b4 13.Nd4 a6 14.Nf5 Bb7 15.Nxg7+ Kf8 16.Nh5 Nxh5 17.Qxh5 Rg8 18.Bxh7 Rxg2 19.d4 Bf4 20.Qh4 Bxc1 21.Rxc1 f5 22.Kd2 Rg4 23.Qf6+ Qf7 24.Qh8+ Ke7 25.Qe5 Rxd4+ 26.Qxd4 Rd8 27.Qxd8+ Kxd8 28.Rhd1 Qxh7 29.c3 Qxh2 30.Ke2+ Ke7 31.cxb4 Qe5+ 32.Kf1 Bf3 0–1
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Liang,A2592Robson,R26730–12020B11USA-ch 20202.3

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