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Simultaneous Exhibition with GM Sam Shankland

Saturday, September 28, 2024

GM Sam Shankland will be visiting our Chess Club on Saturday, September 28, for a 26-board simul at our club.

This event is part of our larger celebration and Open House of the Mechanics' Institute.

List of registered players

 

About GrandMaster Sam Shankland

  • Shankland was born in Berkeley, California

  • In January 2011, Shankland earned the title of Grandmaster at the Berkeley International

  • In 2012 Shankland won the Northern California International ahead of strong GMs Georg Meier, Alejandro Ramirez, Yury Shulman, and Bartlomiej Macieja.

  • In 2013 Shankland was selected as the 27th Samford Fellow.

  • In 2014 at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway, Shankland took home gold for his performance as a reserve player.

  • In September, 2016, Shankland played as fourth board for the United States at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, where the team earned gold for the first time since 1976

  • In April 2018 Shankland took clear first in the US Chess Championship with a score of 81⁄2/11 (+6–0=5). He finished half a point, two points, and three points ahead of Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura, respectively. 

  • In 2019 Shankland finished with 6.5/13 at the Tata Steel Masters, sharing 7th place in what has been called the strongest tournament in the world. He drew his first ever game with World Champion Magnus Carlsen, and he defeated former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in the final round. Shankland reached a peak rating of 2731 and #22 in the World.

  • In 2021 Shankland won the Prague Masters with 5.5/7 and a performance rating over 2900, the best result in the tournament's history, and also he reached the quarterfinals of the 2021 FIDE World Cup, earning a spot in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix. 

  • He published two books: in 2018: Small Steps to Giant Improvement: Master Pawn Play in Chess and in 2020: Small Steps 2 Success: Mastering Passed Pawn Play

  • He has several Chessable courses on openings, calculations and various other topics. https://www.chessable.com/courses/s/shankland

 

Start Time: 3:00pm

Mechanics' Institute Chess Club is providing everything needed for the simul: boards, sets, scoresheets and pens.

We will be broadcasting 6 boards on Chess.com. Link will be coming as we get closer to the event.

Signed boards might be available for purchase at the event.

 

Entry fee:

  • $65 for MI members

  • $70 for non-MI members

https://mechanics-institute.jumbula.com/2024Tournaments/SimultaneousExhibitionwithGrandmasterSamShankland928

Standings: 

List of Registered players: as of 9/27 7pm
 

 

  First Last USCF ID Rating
1 Patrick Liu 16667410 2240
2 Suyuan Gui 16962930 2111
3 Carl Pickering 30689170 2000
4 Zee Chin 16965808 1975
5 Jenny Qi 17050786 1957
6 Roger Smith 14437543 1886
7 Advit Kulkarni 30046098 1830
8 Zelin Fang 17083043 1793
9 Caleb Martinez 31785847 1760
10 Chase Wang 15015852 1739
11 Carson Armstrong 31136758 1713
12 Andrew Ballantyne 17079795 1670
13 Roger Pan 17124442 1639
14 Zack Schuster 30179651 1488
15 Marcus Lau 15927216 1475
16 Richard Faust 12664058 1468
17 Maaher Gandhi 14806336 1402
18 Jingting Liu   1200
19 Olivia Xu 31352797 1190
20 Merlin Mackley 31277598 1132
21 Maxwell Babicz 30598390 1020
22 Adrian Levy 31607080 549
23 Neil Sharma 30897797 329
24 Tucker Fisher 32051513 0
25 Gordon Wong 12566165 0
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