San Diego Surfers Ride A Wave Of Wins Over Australia Kangaroos
The San Diego Surfers match with the Australia Kangaroos was very close coming down to the final round with an 8.5 - 7.5 win. This win clinches San Diego's playoff birth while Australia barely hung onto the fourth spot with a San Jose loss.
GM Alexey Dreev and GM Samuel Sevian led San Diego with both scoring an undefeated 3/4. In the final round, GM Anton Smirnov faced Sevian with both players getting down to 8 seconds each. Watch IM David Pruess call out how one player would blunder. In the end, that was Smirnov who dropped a piece.
2018 PRO Chess League | Week 8 | Team vs Team
| Kangaroos | Surfers | Alexey Dreev | Samuel Sevian | John Daniel Bryant | Siddharth Banik | 8.5 |
| Tan Zhongyi | 2 | |||||
| Anton Smirnov | 1 | |||||
| Moulthun Ly | 2.5 | |||||
| Temur Kuybokarov | 2 | |||||
| 7.5 | 3 | 3 | 1.5 | 1 | ||
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