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The Road to Recovery

Submitted by Shankland on May 14, 2013 1:03 PM.

This is roughly how I feel right now. The US Championship concluded a couple days ago, and every now and then there are tournaments where absolutely nothing goes right. Things started off very poorly- I was playing Conrad Holt with black in round 1,...Read more »

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Member Since: Apr 9, 2009
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Homepage: samshankland.com
Birthday: Oct 1, 1991
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White	Black	Result	Moves	Date	Action
GM Shankland (1937)	powerv (1045)	1-0 (won)	29	5/16/13	View
powerv (1045)	GM Shankland (1937)	0-1 (won)	10	5/16/13	View
GM Shankland (1937)	powerv (1045)	1-0 (won)	34	5/16/13	View
GM Shankland (2207)	Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (2315)	0-1 (lost)	16	4/21/13	View
Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (2309)	GM Shankland (2213)	1-0 (lost)	35	4/21/13	View
GM Shankland (2219)	Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (2303)	0-1 (lost)	51	4/21/13	View
Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (2297)	GM Shankland (2225)	1-0 (lost)	26	4/21/13	View
kifa13 (2254)	GM Shankland (2495)	0-1 (won)	44	4/20/13	View
GM Shankland (2489)	kifa13 (2257)	1-0 (won)	50	4/20/13	View
GM Shankland (2232)	Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (2366)	0-1 (lost)	37	4/19/13	View

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