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Kyron Griffith Earns GM Norm at Marshall Chess Club Labor Day Invitational

by doubleattack
Marshall Chess Club New York

The Marshall Chess Club Labor Day Invitational 2024 was held from 29th August to 2nd September at the legendary Marshall Chess Club in New York City, USA.

The event consisted of two sections, GM A and IM B. Both sections were 10-player round robins with the classical time control.

In the GM A tournament IM Kyron Griffith emerged convincing winner with 7/9 points, a full point ahead of the nearest followers. Griffith earned his second Grandmaster norm.

FM Samrug Narayanan completing the International Master title requirements with 5.5/9 points.

Levy Rozman โ€“ GothamChess could not keep up the great form he had throughout the summer and finished second to last with 2 points.

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The IM B was very closely contested with Mykola Bortnyk UKR 2432 ending up the sole winner with 5.5/9 points.

2024 Marshall Chess Club Labor Day Invitational GM A:

1 IM Griffith Kyron USA 2382 – 7
2-3 GM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2439 and IM Shlyakhtenko Robert USA 2411 – 6
4-5 FM Narayanan Samrug USA 2389 and GM Paragua Mark PHI 2449 – 5.5
6 GM Khamrakulov Djurabek UZB 2494 – 5
7 FM Putnam Liam USA 2420 – 4
8 NM Chirilov James USA 2339 – 3
9 IM Rozman Levy USA 2370 – 2
10 NM Kovalchuk Igor UKR 2057 – 1

2024 Marshall Chess Club Labor Day Invitational IM B:

1 IM Bortnyk Mykola UKR 2432 – 5.5
2-4 FM Pressman Leif USA 2235, CM Espinosa Pedro USA 2210 and NM Lin Bryan Enming USA 2155 – 5
5-8 NM Shah Ansh IND 2250, WIM Mou Iris USA 2201, GM Yudasin Leonid ISR 2323 and FM Tanenbaum Zachary USA 2233 – 4.5
9 IM Vera Liordis Quesada CUB 2328 – 4
10 NM Ho Cooper USA 2099 – 2.5

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