The semifinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship will be played among IMs John Bartholomew, Teddy Coleman, Alina Kashlinskaya, and Greg Shahade, who won their quarterfinal matches this week.
The semifinals are scheduled to be played in the second week of May, when the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup has ended. The two matchups will be Bartholomew vs. Shahade and Coleman vs.Kashlinskaya.
Kashlinskaya-Rosen 13-8
The match score in this first quarterfinal didn't go as the winner expected. Kashlinskaya lost the five-minute segment 2.5-4.5, was equal again after the three-minute, and then gained a big victory thanks to scoring 6.5-1.5 in the bullet.
