19-year-old Awonder Liang crushed Levon Aronian in the fifth round of the US Chess Championship. Awonder successfully surprised Aronian by playing the Scotch gambit and achieved the completely winning position after only 16 moves of play. “I feel ecstatic, it’s not something I ever expected, just a lot of things kind of went my way“, said the 15-year-old in the post-game interview.
Awonder revealed that he got inspired to play the Scotch gambit by his University Professor who is an avid amateur chess player. “I was having dinner with the professor of UofC [University of Chicago] and he just started chess maybe a year or two years ago and he is super into it. But the one thing he loves the most is all these crazy gambits. And he was telling me Awonder you gotta play this gambit! It wasn’t this particular gambit (…) but I never would have imagined I’d play the Scotch gambit if it wasn’t for him.
The US Chess Championship is a 14-player Round-robin tournament, held from October 4th to 20th in Saint Louis, United States of America.
Time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an 30-second increment beginning from move one.
The overall prize fund is $250,000.
PGN:
[Event “U.S. Chess Championship 2022”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2022.10.09”]
[Round “05”]
[White “Liang, Awonder”]
[Black “Aronian, Levon”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “2608”]
[BlackElo “2755”]
[TimeControl “5400+30”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. Ng5 Nh6 6. Nxf7 Nxf7 7. Bxf7+ Kxf7
8. Qh5+ g6 9. Qxc5 d5 10. c3 dxe4 11. O-O Re8 12. cxd4 Qxd4 13. Qg5 Nb4 14. Bd2
Qd6 15. Nc3 c6 16. Rad1 Bf5 17. g4 h6 18. Qh4 Bc8 19. Bxh6 Nd3 20. Bg5 Qe5 21.
f3 Rh8 22. fxe4+ Kg8 23. Bh6 Qd4+ 24. Kh1 Be6 25. Qg5 Bf7 26. Rxf7 Rxh6 27. Rxd3
Qxd3 28. Qf6 Rxh2+ 29. Kxh2 Qd2+ 30. Kg1 Qc1+ 31. Kf2 Qh6 32. g5 1-0
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