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With the number of talented juniors aged 18 and under, there’s always the question of who the best super-junior is. The 2023 US Cadet Championship, held June 22 through 25 in Schaumburg, IL, was meant to determine just that.
FM Ruiyang Yan defeated FM Alice Lee in a playoff to win the 20th annual Susan Polgar Foundation (SPF) Girls Invitational hosted by Webster University in St Louis, MO. Yan and Lee were the two highest rated players in the event by far, and their 5½/6 scores (drawing their encounter in round five) was not surprising, but Yan’s playoff victory was.