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2009 Games of the Week, in order of Game of the Year Ranking:

1st Place: Week 5: GM Giorgi Kacheishvili (NY) vs GM Josh Friedel (SF) 1-0         Game of the Week Article Game of the Year Article
2nd Place: Wildcard #4: NM Matt Herman (NY) vs FM Daniel Naroditsky (SF) 1-0                                   Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
3rd Place: Wildcard #5: SM Marc Esserman (BOS) vs FM Ron Simpson (CAR) 1-0                                    Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
4th Place: Semifinals: GM Pascal Charbonneau (NY) vs IM Dean Ippolito (NJ) 1/2-1/2                               Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
5th Place: Week 8: IM John Bartholomew (DAL) vs GM Julio Becerra (MIA) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
6th Place: Week 6: GM Alejandro Ramirez (ARZ) vs GM Joel Benjamin (NJ) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
7th Place: Week 7: IM Daniel Fernandez (DAL) vs FM Oleg Zaikov (CAR) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
8th Place: Week 1: IM Dean Ippolito (NJ) vs GM Pascal Charbonneau (NY) 1-0         Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
9th Place: Week 9: IM John Bartholomew (DAL) vs IM Jan van de Mortel (CHC) 0-1                         Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
10th Place: Quarterfinals: GM Giorgi Kacheishvili (NY) vs GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) 1-0                       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
11th Place: Wildcard #7: GM Julio Becerra (MIA) vs GM Josh Friedel (SF) 1-0                                       Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
12th Place: Week 3: GM Boris Gulko (NJ) vs FM Oleg Zaikov (CAR) 1-0        Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
13th Place: Championship: GM Julio Becerra (MIA) vs GM Giorgi Kacheishvili (NY) 0-1                           Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
14th Place: Wildcard #6: GM Jaan Ehlvest (TEN) vs GM Alejandro Ramirez (ARZ) 1-0                           Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
15th Place: Wildcard #1: FM Victor Shen (NJ) vs IM Marc Esserman (BOS) 1-0                                         Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
16th Place: Wildcard #3: IM Jan van de Mortel (CHC) vs GM Jaan Ehlvest (TEN) 1-0                             Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
17th Place: Week 10: GM Gregory Serper (SEA) vs IM Jan van de Mortel (CHC) 1-0                                 Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
18th Place: Wildcard #2: FM Andrei Zaremba (QNS) vs SM Marc Esserman (BOS) 1-0                            Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
19th Place: Week 4: SM Marc Esserman (BOS) vs FM Tom Bartell (PHI) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
20th Place: Week 2: GM Josh Friedel (SF) vs IM Marko Zivanic (DAL) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article

2008 Games of the Week, in order of Game of the Year Ranking:

1st Place: Championship: GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) vs IM Marko Zivanic (DAL) 1-0           Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
2nd Place: Week 8: GM Sergey Erenburg (BAL) vs SM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (BOS) 1-0          Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
3rd Place: Week 5: SM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (BOS) vs IM David Pruess (SF) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
4th Place: Quarterfinals: IM Davorin Kuljasevic (DAL) vs GM Vinay Bhat (SF) 1-0          Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
5th Place: Wildcard #2: GM Joel Benjamin (NJ) vs GM Sergey Erenburg (BAL) 0-1       Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
6th Place: Week 10: GM Jaan Ehlvest (TEN) vs GM Sergey Erenburg (BAL) 1/2-1/2      Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
7th Place: Week 7: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs IM Dean Ippolito (NJ) 1-0             Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
8th Place: Week 2: IM Vinay Bhat (SF) vs IM Emory Tate (CHC) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
9th Place: Week 1: GM Alex Shabalov (NY) vs SM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (BOS) 0-1    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
10th Place: Week 6: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs FM Oleg Zaikov (CAR) 1-0             Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
11th Place: Week 4: IM Lev Milman (CAR) vs GM Alex Shabalov (NY) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
12th Place: Week 9: GM Sergey Kudrin (PHI) vs GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) 1/2-1/2       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
13th Place: Wildcard #1: IM Alex Lenderman (MAN) vs IM Emory Tate (CHC) 1-0         Wildcard Selection Article      Game of the Year Article
14th Place: Week 3: GM Pascal Charbonneau (NY) vs GM Sergey Kudrin (PHI) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
15th Place: Wildcard #6: FM Bruci Lopez (MIA) vs GM Gregory Serper (SEA) 1-0      Wildcard Selection Article    Game of the Year Article
16th Place: Wildcard #7: IM Davorin Kuljasevic (DAL) vs GM Julio Becerra (MIA) 1-0       Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
17th Place: Wildcard #3: GM Patrick Wolff (SF) vs IM Marko Zivanic (DAL) 1/2-1/2      Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
18th Place: Wildcard #4: IM Dmitry Schneider (QNS) vs GM Eugene Perelshteyn (BOS) 1-0               Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
19th Place: Semifinals: FM Oleg Zaikov (CAR) vs SM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (BOS) 1/2-1/2         Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
20th Place: Wildcard #5: GM Jaan Ehlvest (TEN) vs IM Rogelio Barcenilla (ARZ) 1-0          Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article

2007 Games of the Week, in order of Game of the Year Ranking (Download them all in pgn format):

1st place: Championship: SM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (BOS) vs IM Davorin Kuljasevic (DAL) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
2nd place: Semifinals: GM Julio Becerra (MIA) vs IM Drasko Boskovic (DAL) 0-1    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
3rd place: Wildcard Round: FM Marcel Martinez (MIA) vs IM Dmitry Zilberstein (SF) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
4th place: Week 6: GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) vs GM Patrick Wolff (SF) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
5th place: Week 3: IM Vinay Bhat (SF) vs GM Hikaru Nakamura (NY) 1-0 Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
6th place: Week 4: GM Eugene Perelshteyn (BOS) vs GM Pascal Charbonneau (NY) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
7th place: Wildcard #2: GM Julio Becerra (MIA) vs GM Alex Stripunsky (QNS) 1-0               Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
8th place: Week 7: IM Lev Milman (CAR) vs IM Ron Burnett (TEN) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
9th place: Wildcard #3: IM Josh Friedel (SF) vs GM Gregory Serper (SEA) 1-0    Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
10th place: Wildcard #7: IM Bryan Smith (PHI) vs GM Eugene Perelshteyn (BOS) 1-0      Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
11th place: Week 9: NM Mackenzie Molner (NJ) vs IM Larry Kaufman (BAL) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
12th place: Wildcard #1: IM Dmitry Zilberstein (SF) vs IM John Bartholomew (DAL) 1-0       Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
13th place: Wildcard #6: NM Mackenzie Molner (NJ) vs FM Marc Arnold (NY) 1-0       Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
14th place: Wildcard #5: IM Eric Tangborn (SEA) vs IM Davorin Kuljasevic (DAL) 0-1      Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article
15th place: Week 2: IM Vinay Bhat (SF) vs IM John Bartholomew (DAL) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
16th place: Week 8: GM Julio Becerra (MIA) vs IM Ron Burnett (TEN) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
17th place: Week 10: IM Jay Bonin (NY) vs NM Mackenzie Molner (NJ) 1-0       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
18th place: Week 5: FM Slava Mikhailuk (SEA) vs IM Jonathan Schroer (CAR) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
19th place: Week 1: IM Josh Friedel (SF) vs IM Lev Milman (CAR) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
20th place: Wildcard #4: IM Jay Bonin (NY) vs NM Denys Shmelov (BOS) 1-0    Wildcard Selection Article     Game of the Year Article

2006 Games of the Week, in order of Game of the Year Ranking:

1st place: Week 2: GM Pawel Blehm (BAL) vs GM Pascal Charbonneau (NY) 1/2-1/2    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
2nd place: Week 4: GM Julio Becerra (MIA) vs GM Pawel Blehm (BAL) 1-0 Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
3rd place: Week 5: IM Lev Milman (CAR) vs GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
4th place: Semifinals: IM Josh Friedel (SF) vs GM Gregory Serper (SEA) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
5th place: Week 7: IM Josh Friedel (SF) vs GM Gregory Serper (SEA) 1-0   Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
6th place: Championship: IM Josh Friedel (SF) vs GM Pascal Charbonneau (NY) 1/2-1/2    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
7th place: Week 8: GM Pawel Blehm (BAL) vs GM Magesh Panchanathan (DAL) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
8th place: Week 9: IM Vinay Bhat (SF) vs IM Georgi Orlov (SEA) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
9th place: Week 10: FM William Kelleher (BOS) vs FM Tegshsuren Enkhbat (BAL) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
10th place: Week 6: Jose Cabrera (MIA) vs Michael Lee (SEA) 0-1       Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
11th place: Wildcard Round: FM Slava Mikhailuk (SEA) vs IM Davorin Kuljasevic (DAL) 1-0    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
12th place: Week 3: FM Boris Privman (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1 (annotated by NM Krasik)    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article
13th place: Week 1: NM Keaton Kiewra (DAL) vs NM Mark Pinto (SF) 0-1 (annotated by NM Sharma)    Game of the Week Article     Game of the Year Article

2005 Games of the Week, in order of Game of the Year Ranking:

1st place: Week 2: GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) vs IM Pascal Charbonneau (BAL) 0-1 (annotated by IM Charbonneau)                      Game of the Year Article
2nd place: Week 3: IM-elect Lev Milman (CAR) vs GM Larry Christiansen (BOS) 0-1 (annotated by GM Christiansen)      Game of the Year Article
3rd place: Semifinals: FM David Pruess (SF) vs IM Blas Lugo (MIA) 1-0                                                                                                   Game of the Year Article
4th place: Week 7: IM Pascal Charbonneau (BAL) vs FM Norman Rogers (PHI) 0-1 (annotated by FM Rogers)    Game of the Year Article
5th place: Week 9: NM John Rouleau (BAL) vs FM Lewis Eisen (NY) 1-0     Game of the Year Article
6th place: Week 8: FM David Pruess (SF) vs NM Elvin Wilson (PHI) 1-0 (annotated by FM Pruess)       Game of the Year Article
7th place: Week 2: IM John Donaldson (SF) vs GM Alejandro Ramirez (DAL) 1/2-1/2 (annotated by both players)    Game of the Year Article
8th place: Week 5: FM Matthew Hoekstra (CAR) vs WGM-elect Jennifer Shahade (NY) 0-1 (annotated by WGM Shahade)      Game of the Year Article
9th place: Week 6: IM Vince McCambridge (SF) vs IM Pascal Charbonneau (BAL) 0-1     Game of the Year Article
10th place: Week 1: IM Eugene Perelshteyn (BOS) vs GM Alex Stripunsky (NY) 1-0 (annotated by IM Perelshteyn)        Game of the Year Article
11th place: Championship: IM Larry Kaufman (BAL) vs IM Blas Lugo (MIA) 1-0        Game of the Year Article
12th place: Week 10: IM Dmitry Schneider (DAL) vs IM-elect Lev Milman (CAR) 1-0      Game of the Year Article

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