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   January 2008 - Su’ad Yoon

  

     Su’ad Yoon represented Tennessee at the Susan Polgar Invitational for Girls held in conjunction with the U.S. Open in Cherry Hill, New Jersey July 31 – August 4.  The “Polgar” field is comprised of the top female chess players age 19 or younger from each state. 

     With a pre-tournament rating of 1612, Su’ad, who will be a sophomore at MLK High School in Nashville this fall, was seeded 25th in the 49-player field.  Despite playing both tournament co-champions, as well as the sixth, ninth and fourteenth place finishers, Su’ad finished with a more than respectable 3½ points over six rounds for a sparkling 1798 performance rating.  Here is Su’ad’s second-round upset of the eventual tournament co-champion:

  

Su’ad Yoon (1612) vs. Eunice Rodriguez (1758)

2007 Susan Polgar Invitational for Girls

 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.e4 Nd7 5.Nc3 e5 6.d5 Ne7 7.Bd3 0–0 8.0–0 h6 9.b4 f5 10.Nd2 f4 11.f3 g5 12.c5 dxc5 13.bxc5 Nxc5 14.Bc4 Kh8 15.Ba3 Nd7 16.Nb5 Nb6 17.Rc1 Nxc4 18.Nxc4 Bd7 (see position above) 19.Nxc7! Rc8 [19…Qxc7 20.d6!] 20.Kh1 Bf6 [20...Rxc7 21.Bxe7 Qe8 (21...Qxe7 22.d6) 22.Bxf8] 21.d6 Nc6 22.Nd5 b5 23.Nd2 Rf7 24.Nb3 Bg7 25.Ne7 Nxe7 26.dxe7 Qe8 27.Rxc8 Qxc8 28.Qd5 Kg8 29.Nc5 Be8 30.Qd8 Qc6 31.Rd1 b4 32.Bxb4 Kh7 33.a4 Bf6 34.Rd6 Bxe7 35.Rxc6 Bxd8 36.Rc8 .... 1–0

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  by Alvin Harris