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  uschess.org | IM Irina Krush
Krush also has high standards of sportsmanship, and is disappointed when her chess peers don't adhere to them.
Irina was the team MVP, working tirelessly on her analysis and permanently changing theory with her novelty for the fl side of the Bb5+ Sicilian.
Irina moved to New York from Odessa, Ukraine when she was five years old.
beta.uschess.org /frontend/player_55_23.php   (466 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Irina Krush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina's endgame analysis pushed back the frontiers of KQP vs KQP endgame knowledge, and her opening novelty has forced grandmasters to abandon Kasparov's opening line in favor of a different move order.
Irina Krush (December 24, 1983-) is an American (A game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king) chess player.
Irina's (The final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board) endgame analysis pushed back the frontiers of KQP vs KQP endgame knowledge, and her opening novelty has forced grandmasters to abandon Kasparov's opening line in favor of a different move order.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Irina-Krush   (1195 words)

  
 Irina Krush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Krush gained a measure of fame both inside and outside chess circles during the well-publicized "Kasparov versus The World" chess competition in 1999.
Unfortunately, on the 58th move, her recommendation was inexplicably delayed from appearing on the MSN website, and the team voters chose an objectively weaker move.
Krush won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship at the age of 14, but has not participated in the event since for various reasons.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/i/ir/irina_krush.html   (458 words)

  
 Irina Krush: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina Krush (December 24, EHandler: no quick summary.
Krush won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] at the age of 14.
Krush gained a measure of fame both inside and outside chess circles during the well-publicized "Kasparov versus The World[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link]" chess competition in 1999.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/irina_krush.htm   (1078 words)

  
 village voice > news > Not Your Average Board Teen by Candace Rondeaux
Krush's only visible pretense is her refusal to wear her extra-strength wire-rimmed glasses to a match.
Irina spoke no English when she was a shy little girl arriving in Brooklyn in the dead of winter and spent her first days here playing chess at her father's side.
Krush still speaks with a subtle Slavic lilt and lives with her parents, who work as certified public accountants from their home near the Little Odessa section of Brooklyn.
www.villagevoice.com /news/0201,rondeaux,31203,3.html   (1492 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Athletes_Chess: Krush Irina
Irina considers her best chess achievements so far, gaining the men's International Master title, and she is confident that her best achievements in chess are yet to come...
WGM irina krush irina was born 24 December 1983 in Odessa, Ukraine.
Irina is probably most well known on the world scene for her recent participation as part of the "World Team" who played against GM Garry Kasparov under the auspices of Microsoft.
www.geometry.net /athletes_chess/krush_irina.html   (3056 words)

  
 Irina Krush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina Krush (December 24 1983 -) is an American chess player.
Krush gained a measure of fame both and outside chess circles during the well-publicized versus The World" chess competition in 1999.
Irina's endgame analysis pushed back the frontiers of vs KQP endgame knowledge and her opening has forced grandmasters to abandon Kasparov's opening in favor of a different move order.
www.freeglossary.com /Irina_Krush   (545 words)

  
 Irina Krush - TheBestLinks.com - Chess, December 24, International Grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, ...
Irina Krush - TheBestLinks.com - Chess, December 24, International Grandmaster, Garry Kasparov,...
Irina Krush, Chess, December 24, International Grandmaster, Garry Kasparov...
As of July 2004, Krush had a FIDE Rating of 2459, 19th best among active female players.
www.thebestlinks.com /Irina_Krush.html   (515 words)

  
 NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: MIDWOOD; Chess Is This Teen-Ager's Life (Except for a Certain Boy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina is not yet able to enter top tournaments with men because of her rating, but soon hopes to qualify.
Irina's father, Boris, taught her to play chess when she was five.
As Irina was winning her title last weekend, the Murrow team, which has been city champions for 8 of the last 11 years, was taking second place behind Stuyvesant High School.
www.kmacklin.com /nytimes_com1999-01-17.htm   (482 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Athletes_Chess: Krush Irina
Irina was the Gold Medalist in the 1998 Pan-American Youth Championships in Brazil with a perfect score of 7-0.
Extractions: Biographies IM Irina Krush (USA) Irina Krush became the youngest US Women's Champion in history in 1998 at the age of 14 and is widely recognized as the USA's top female chess-player.
Krush won the US Women's Chess Championship at the age of 14, but has not participated in the event since for various reasons.
www4.geometry.net /athletes_chess/krush_irina.html   (1771 words)

  
 The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Comment on Pics 06 - Media Krush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina was born in the Ukraine but she came to the US at around 5 and she learned chess in this country.
In the case of Irina, Hikaru, Yasser, etc., pointing out that they were not born in the US for the purpose of discrediting US chess is just foolishness, though.
He didn't mind Irina taking the credit for this "novelty", as his game and analysis were unpublished, waiting for new "victims".
www.chessninja.com /cgi-bin/mt-commentator.cgi?entry_id=1037   (640 words)

  
 New York Masters
Irina Krush, despite her new hairstyle, had the same result as she did the last time she played… a draw with Furdzik.
D’Arruda was very aggressive against Jay Bonin, sacking a pawn in the opening, however Bonin weathered the storm and then got a tremendous amount of counterplay, giving him the win and a chance for 3-1 for the third week in a row.
Krush, Irina m 2427 =11 +18 - 4 = 8 2.0 8.
www.newyorkmasters.com /xtables/playbyplay10.html   (936 words)

  
 uschess.org | Chess Life Online
IM Irina Krush had a disappointing result, finishing with minus one.
Irina started the women's grand prix with two draws, while Gata has joint lead in the Empresa with 3/4.
Round 4's "battle of the Titans" between Irina Krush and Anna Zatonskih, was a quick draw.
beta.uschess.org /frontend/section_7.php   (2396 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Krush takes the Accoona trophy
America's Irina Krush defeated Almira Skripchenko of France in their rapid match held in the Russian Samovar restaurant in New York City.
Krush moves on to face 2001 FIDE women's world champion Zhu Chen in a December 7 match with the same format and also in New York.
Krush was down to a few minutes and she turned to arbiter John Fernandez (who was performing admirable double-duty helping Mig Greengard relay the moves online).
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1911   (913 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - It's Almira vs Irina in New York
Irina Krush, Accoona American Champion, and Almira Skripchenko, Accoona French Champion, will compete at the Russian Samovar, 256 W 52nd Street, NYC, (212) 757-0168 on Thursday, September 16, 2004.
Irina Krush, in 1998 was the youngest woman to win the American Championship and is currently the active Top-Rated Woman Player in the USA.
Irina is nominally six points stronger than Almira, but the French girl has more international titles and championship wins to her name.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1859   (1371 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Athletes_Chess: Krush Irina
Irina became the youngest women ever to compete in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship, at age 11.
A Master at age 12, Irina is now the #1 ranked Woman in the U.S. Her accomplishments also include scoring a perfect 7-0 at the 1998 Pan American Youth Championships in Brazil.
IM Irina Krush (USA) Irina Krush became the youngest US Women's Champion in history in 1998 at the age of 14 and is widely recognized as the USA's top female chess-player.
www4.geometry.net /detail/athletes_chess/krush_irina.html   (2220 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Athletes_Chess: Krush Irina
Irina Krush, the reigning U.S. Women's Champion, continued her string of tournament successes with a medal-winning performance at the 1998 FIDE World Junior Championship, held November 17 through December 1 in Calicut, India.
IM Irina Krush, Chess Goddess Introduction: At sixteen, Irina is the highest ranking female player in the United States.
Irina Krush However, on arrival at Oakham, I quickly spotted her new trainer - a blast from the past, none other than GM Nikolai Krogius, the legendary Soviet chess psychologist.
www.geometry.net /detail/athletes_chess/krush_irina.html   (3223 words)

  
 Krush, Irina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Controversy of Krush's lost move in Kasparov v.
Irina Krush Biography - Biography of leading Kasparov v.
the world commentator Irina Krush (her move recommendations were played 53 of 57 times).
www.topiasearch.com /Games/BoardGames/Abstract/BattleGames/Chess/People/Krush,Irina   (110 words)

  
 Irina - The new season kicks off early with the summer Goodwill Games in   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina's World is an on-line monthly fashion, beauty, entertainment and lifestyle magazine produced by Irina Kovalenko.
Irina Tweedie was a British women who went to live and study in northwest India with a Naqshbandi Sufi teacher.
Irina is already comfirmed to skate at the Games and will likely debute her new programs for this Olympic season.
portalexplore.com /?q=irina   (367 words)

  
 Irina Krush -- Irina Krush geboren op 24 december 1983 te Odessa is een Ame...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina Krush -- Irina Krush geboren op 24 december 1983 te Odessa is een Ame...
Irina Krush geboren op 24 december 1983 te Odessa is een Amerikaanse schaakster met een Elo-rating van 2464.
Irina werd derde en Tatev Abrahamyan eindigde op de tweede plaats
irina-krush.nl.tracking24.net   (100 words)

  
 TimesSquare.com History & Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Chen and Krush played in the windowed studio at street level, making the Accoona event the most public championship in the history of chess.
In 2002 Chen finally got her revenge when she faced Krush in a four-game match between China and the United States and won three of them.
Irina Krush was born in Odessa, Ukraine, on Christmas Eve 1983.
www.timessquare.com /history/chess_story.html   (578 words)

  
 The chess games of Irina Krush
Irina Krush was born December 24, 1983 in Odessa, Ukraine.
Krush played second board for the silver-medal-winning American team at the 36th Olympiad, Women (2004).
It looks like Krush is really kicking her chess into overdrive lately; I hope she keeps it up.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=49592   (693 words)

  
 US Chess Federation: Players Gallery: Irina Krush
Irina has also represented the United States in the FIDE World Junior Championship for Girls and at the Pan American Youth Games.
Irina was the Gold Medalist in the 1998 Pan-American Youth Championships in Brazil with a perfect score of 7-0.
She has been the top US Player (boys and girls) under age 16 several times on the USCF Top 50 Lists.
www.uschess.org /news/bio/krush.html   (175 words)

  
 ARBITROS DE AJEDREZ - Chicas al Poder : IRINA KRUSH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina Krush, la sensación del Torneo de Andorra, llevando 4.5 puntos sobre 5 partidas, es su primera aparición en este Pais, y la tercera en la peninsula aunque las 2 anteriores fueron tan solo para campeonatos por edades.
Irina Krush, nació el 24 de Diciembre de 1983 en Odessa, Ucrania, a los 5 años ella y su familia emigraron a los Estados Unidos, concretamente a la Ciudad de Nueva York.Su padre la enseñó a jugar al ajedrez y desde entonces disfruta jugando, sea con chicos o con chicas.
Irina fué una de los entrenadores mundiales que MICROSOFT tenia en el match Kasparov-Resto del Mundo, asi mismo ha representado a los Estados Unidos en numerosas competiciones por equipos (a destacar la olimpiada) e individuales (Campeonatos mundiales para la juventud en Oropesa).
www.arbitrosdeajedrez.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=315   (389 words)

  
 Irina Krush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Irina’s influence on chess extends beyond the board.
Her “Krushing Attacks" chess videos are widely acclaimed, and her articles appear in Chess Life and Atlantic Chess News.
Irina trains with a Dell Pentium II 300 Notebook loaded with ChessBase, Fritz, Chess Informant, Rebel and HIARCS -- challenging herself to the limit.
www.zone.com /kasparov/playbioIrina.asp   (431 words)

  
 Rising Chess stars page with cart
With Irina Krush, Elina Groberman, Laura Ross and Shirley Ben-Dak.
No junior chessplayer will want to be without this chess video which stars Irina Krush (1998 US Women's Chess Champion!), Elina Groberman, Laura Ross, and Shirley Ben-Dak! America's Chess Princesses have made a chess video that can be enjoyed by students of all ages.
In her debut instructional chess video, the dynamic young chess talent Irina Krush analyzes some of her best games and super combinations from her young but rapidly ascending chess career.
www.chess4less.com /2-rising%20stars.htm   (262 words)

  
 Humpy stuns Irina Krush, makes her first IM Norm, Nicholas Pert champion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Koneru Humpy capped her fine home run with a stunning victory over leader Irina Krush of USA in the final round at Oakham here today.
Notably this is also her second straight win over Irina Krush, whom she'd also defeated in the World Juniors previously.
For Irina Krush it was a big slip in the end that spelt disaster.
www.chathurangam.com /abroad/oak2k1/rd09.asp   (267 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Irina Krush wins Accoona Women's Match in New York
Irina Krush wins Accoona Women's Match in New York
But all efforts to force a win were in vain and in the end she accepted a draw in a losing position.
That gave Irina Krush an overall victory and she will play against the Chinese world champion Zhu Chen in December.
www.chessbase.com /newsprint.asp?newsid=1910   (712 words)

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