San Jose Hackers Draw The Las Vegas Desert Rats
The San Jose Hackers held off a pack of Las Vegas Desert Rats and finished the match tied at 8-8. Despite going into the final round down 5-7, San Jose pulled out two extra points to hold onto fifth place just a half point out of the top four in the Pacific Division with 2.5-2.5. Las Vegas fails to get their first win dropping to 1-4.
The young NM Christopher Yoo played a brilliant game in the final round against GM Jacek Stopa. He had been 0-3 in the previous rounds but came through when his team needed him the most. Below, he puts on a clinic in creating counter play.
2018 PRO Chess League | Week 4 | Las Vegas Desert Rats vs San Jose Hackers
| Desert Rats | Hackers | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | Daniel Naroditsky | Konstantin Kavutskiy | Christopher Woojin Yoo | 8 |
| Melikset Khachiyan | 2 | |||||
| Zbigniew Pakleza | 2 | |||||
| Andrey Ostrovskiy | 3 | |||||
| Jacek Stopa | 1 | |||||
| 8 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1 | 1 | ||
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Written by Dylan Quercia. Follow him on twitter at coachqchess
