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The Insider: Shankland's US Championship vs Alex Lenderman

May 27, 2014
25 min
11160 Views
GM Shankland is back after a long break to show how he stopped a runaway train at the U.S. Championship earlier this month. He'd played GM Lenderman eight times previously, all as White! Shanky lines up with Black and after a surprise in the opening, walks the tightrope between brilliant play and trapping his own queen. After that White's structure is crippled, and Black slowly munched on the helpless soldiers.