Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers Stop The Webster Windmills
The Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers defeated the Webster Windmills by a score of 8.5-7.5. The matchup of the #1 and #2 teams in the Atlantic division did not disappoint! Pittsburgh not only upset the previously undefeated Webster team, but also moves into a tie for first place with Webster with a 6.5/8 score on the season! Webster’s first loss of the year may sting a bit, but both teams are locks for the playoffs.
One unusual factoid for this match was that the young GM Awonder Liang of the Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers actually played this match at Webster’s campus!
This is an epic @PROChessLeague moment! GM Awonder Liang, a @websteru SPICE Junior Team Member, is here for 3 weeks for training, is playing for @pghpawngrabbers against @WebsterWindmill at SPICE HQ in St Louis @USChess @EuropeEchecs @chessdom @FIDE_chess #FamilyRivalry 🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/y5FjxtV9Cc
— Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar) February 28, 2018
The hero of the match for Pittsburgh was not Liang or GM Shabalov, but FM Edward Song! The 4th board for the Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers put up a 3/4 performance, leading the Pawngrabbers to victory. Here is FM Edward Song’s victory over GM Tamas Banusz in a wonderfully played English Hedgehog.
2018 PRO Chess League | Week 8 | Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers vs Webster Windmills
| Pawngrabbers | Windmills | Le Quang Liem | Tamas Banusz | Aaron Grabinsky | Joshua Colas | 7.5 |
| Alexander Shabalov | 1.5 | |||||
| Awonder Liang | 2 | |||||
| Atulya Shetty | 2 | |||||
| Edward Song | 3 | |||||
| 8.5 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | ||
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