Shabalov wins US Championships

GM Alexander Shabalov defeated Sergey Kudrin in the final round to win a clear first in the Frank K Berry 2007 US Championships.

"In the last round game Sergey surprised me with 2...Nc6!, which totally killed all my preparation versus Dragon or 2...g6. But I couldn't remember a single game of his after 3.Bb5. Does it matter that I'm not playing it? No! So the resulting position was very much in the spirit of pet variation 1.e4 c5 2. Na3 and I did the grinding!"

Alexander Shabalov (born September 12, 1967) . He is of Latvian origin, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness. Currently, Alexander Shabalov regularly lectures chess players of all ages at the store that he runs in a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania mall.
He is the multiple winner of the US Championships.
winner in the following years 2007,2004,2003,2000(with Joel Benjamin/Yasser Seirawan) and 1993 (with Alex Yermolinsky)

You can view Games of US Champonship 07 here