Samuel Shankland

Samuel Shankland
Full name Samuel Shankland
Country United States
Born October 1, 1991 (1991-10-01) (age 20)
Title Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating 2560 (November 2011)
Peak rating 2560 (November 2011)

Samuel Shankland (born 1 October 1991) is an American chess Grandmaster (2011), California state champion in 2008 and 2009, and USA Junior Champion in 2010.[1]

Chess career

In the Chess World Cup 2011 he defeated Hungarian super-GM Peter Leko in the first round, but lost to Abhijeet Gupta in the second.[2] In the same year he tied for 2nd–7th with Deep Sengupta, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman, David Berczes and Maxim Turov in the ZMDI Schachfestival in Dresden.[3]

References

  1. ^ "The chess games of Samuel Shankland". ChessGames.com. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=114803. Retrieved 21 December 2011. 
  2. ^ Crowther, Mark (2011-09-21). "The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011". London Chess Center. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/fide-world-cup-khanty-mansiysk-2011. Retrieved 26 November 2011. 
  3. ^ "ZMDI Schachfestival Dresden 2011 Gruppe A". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=60884. Retrieved 21 December 2011. 

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