{"id":1267,"date":"2021-10-18T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2021-10-18T18:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:56:18","slug":"carissa-yip-is-the-2021-u-s-womens-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Carissa Yip is the 2021 U.S. Women&#8217;s Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1105\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/KCF-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/KCF-logo.png 352w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/KCF-logo-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>IM Carissa Yip clinched victory in the 2021 U.S. Women\u2019s Championship with a round to spare, after defeating IM Nazi Paikidze in today\u2019s penultimate round. With an unreachable score of 8.0\/10, Yip also made history by becoming the first woman ever to defeat four former champions in a U.S. Women\u2019s Championship. Currently tied for 2nd place are GM Irina Krush and WGM Begim Tokhirjonova, with 6.5\/10.<\/p>\n<p>IM Carissa Yip has been one of the leading students at the Young Stars project.\u00a0The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars \u2013 Team USA program for the past six years. Team USA\u2019s program has helped develop several American chess prodigies from across the country. including the likes of GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Sam Sevian. Team USA has been capped off with individualized training sessions with Kasparov\u2019s coaching staff and special training sessions with Garry Kasparov himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1246\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/grouppictureFinal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/grouppictureFinal.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/grouppictureFinal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/grouppictureFinal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/grouppictureFinal-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Carissa Yip (bottom left) at the latest Young Stars training session with Garry Kasparov<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carissa&#8217;s confident chess catapulted her to the top of the standings and is uncatchable before the last round even starts. She will finish the event against IM Katerina Nemcova.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1268\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51600978823_e956bb2b37_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51600978823_e956bb2b37_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51600978823_e956bb2b37_c-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/51600978823_e956bb2b37_c-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>IM Carissa Yip at her post-win interview with GM Maurice Ashley. Photo courtesy of the Saint Louis Chess Club<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the 2021 U.S. Women&#8217;s Championship, 18-year old Carissa Yip!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IM Carissa Yip clinched victory in the 2021 U.S. Women\u2019s Championship with a round to spare, after defeating IM Nazi Paikidze in today\u2019s penultimate round. With an unreachable score of 8.0\/10, Yip also made history by becoming the first woman ever to defeat four former champions in a U.S. Women\u2019s Championship. Currently tied for 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}