21st Annual Chicago Open

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May 26, 2012, 1:15 AM | 17 | Chess Event Coverage

21st Annual Chicago Open
May 24-28, 2012

The 21st Annual Chicago Open is underway at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel. The event runs from 24-28 May and the prize fund is a guaranteed $100,000.

Several Chess.com members are taking part, including David Pruess and Danny Rensch.

The event has 9 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, Under 1100 and Under 900.

The Open Section is a 9 round Swiss tournament with GM and IM norm opportunities, played over a 5-day schedule from May 24-28. The time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes to a finish with an increment of 30 seconds.

More information is available at the official website, including live game broadcasts here, and completed games for replay here.

The standings in the Open after 2 rounds, and draw for the third round:

	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Pts
1	GM Gabriel Sargissian	2679	W50	W32	~11	2.0
2	GM Ivan Ivanisevic	2655	W70	W31	~8	2.0
3	GM Robert L Hess	2635	W51	W34	~13	2.0
4	GM Varuzhan Akobian	2625	W52	W33	~9	2.0
5	GM Tamaz Gelashvili	2600	W71	W38	~14	2.0
6	GM Giorgi Kacheishvili	2598	W53	W35	~10	2.0
7	GM Alejandro Ramirez	2593	X79	W39	~15	2.0
8	GM Milos Perunovic	2577	X80	W40	~2	2.0
9	GM Yury Shulman	2571	W54	W42	~4	2.0
10	GM Alexander Shabalov	2534	X81	W45	~6	2.0
11	GM Victor Mikhalevski	2519	W55	W41	~1	2.0
12	GM Nikola Mitkov	2518	X82	W47	~—	2.0
13	GM Joshua E Friedel	2499	W83	W44	~3	2.0
14	GM Benjamin Finegold	2494	W58	W46	~5	2.0
15	IM Nikoloz Managadze	2472	W60	W48	~7	2.0
16	IM Daniel J Ludwig	2456	W61	W56	~17	2.0
17	GM Michael Adams	2728	D24	W68	~16	1.5
18	IM Conrad Holt	2515	W57	D23	~25	1.5
19	GM Mikheil Kekelidze	2494	W84	D26	~23	1.5
20	IM Darwin Yang	2476	D59	W72	~26	1.5
21	IM Michael A Mulyar	2408	D63	W73	~27	1.5
22	FM Teddy Coleman	2407	D64	W75	~24	1.5
23	FM Seth Homa	2303	W95	D18	~19	1.5
24	FM Kayden W Troff	2276	D17	W77	~22	1.5
25	Atulya Ary Shetty	2219	D28	W78	~18	1.5
26	Benjamin Coraretti	2066	W37	D19	~20	1.5
27	Dante Zuniga	unr.	H—	W69	~21	1.5
28	GM Eugene Perelshteyn	2526	D25	H—	~48	1.0
29	GM Mesgen Amanov	2518	L56	W86	~53	1.0
30	GM Dmitry Gurevich	2471	D73	D59	~50	1.0
31	IM Eric Hansen	2454	W85	L2	~51	1.0
32	IM John Bartholomew	2445	W86	L1	~52	1.0
33	IM Raja Panjwani	2416	W74	L4	~49	1.0
34	IM Justin Sarkar	2411	W87	L3	~55	1.0
35	FM Farai Mandizha	2406	W88	L6	~54	1.0
36	IM Zhanibek Amanov	2401	D65	D64	~56	1.0
37	IM Florin Felecan	2399	L26	W85	~57	1.0
38	IM Daniel M Rensch	2396	W89	L5	~58	1.0
39	IM David Pruess	2390	W90	L7	~59	1.0
40	IM Ronald Burnett	2360	W76	L8	~60	1.0
41	FM Eric S Rosen	2353	W91	L11	~62	1.0
42	FM Kazim Gulamali	2346	W92	L9	~61	1.0
43	FM Alexan Kretchetov	2339	H—	D63	~66	1.0
44	IM Angelo Young	2338	W66	L13	~63	1.0
45	FM Kassa Korley	2334	W93	L10	~64	1.0
46	WGM Tatev Abrahamyan	2329	W94	L14	~65	1.0
47	FM Robby Adamson	2322	W67	L12	~68	1.0
48	FM Aung T Zin	2299	W96	L15	~28	1.0
49	IM Vishnuvardh Arjun	2296	D78	D65	~33	1.0
50	Bradley J Denton	2267	L1	W87	~30	1.0
51	FM Miles F Ardaman	2252	L3	W89	~31	1.0
52	Konstantinos Stoumbos	2249	L4	W88	~32	1.0
53	FM Alisa Melekhina	2242	L6	W90	~29	1.0
54	WIM Viktorija Ni	2228	L9	W92	~35	1.0
55	Sean Vibbert	2214	L11	W91	~34	1.0
56	Christopher Wu	2204	W29	L16	~36	1.0
57	James A Black Jr	2201	L18	W93	~37	1.0
58	Justus D Williams	2189	L14	W94	~38	1.0
59	FM Jeffery Xiong	2180	D20	D30	~39	1.0
60	Gopal Menon	2180	L15	W95	~40	1.0
61	Steven D Greanias	2155	L16	W96	~42	1.0
62	Kevin Y Cao	2151	H—	H—	~41	1.0
63	Kai Jie Edward Lee	2102	D21	D43	~44	1.0
64	Thomas M Ulrich	2086	D22	D36	~45	1.0
65	Joshua Colas	2083	D36	D49	~46	1.0
66	FM Tommy O He	1948	L44	W83	~43	1.0
67	Dan E Mayers	1912	L47	W84	~69	1.0
68	Vasanta Wettasinha	1827	B—	L17	~47	1.0
69	FM Gauri Shankar	2307	D77	L27	~67	0.5
70	Timur Aliyev	2258	L2	D74	~73	0.5
71	FM Victor Plotkin	2243	L5	D76	~75	0.5
72	Trevor S Magness	2163	H—	L20	~76	0.5
73	Okechukwu A Iwu	2161	D30	L21	~70	0.5
74	Daniel McGowan	2111	L33	D70	~78	0.5
75	Derek Ri Paitrick	2104	H—	L22	~71	0.5
76	Sarah Chiang	2033	L40	D71	~72	0.5
77	FM Awonder Liang	1890	D69	L24	~—	0.5
78	Jalen Wang	unr.	D49	L25	~74	0.5
79	IM Rahul Shetty	2242	F7	U—	~—	0.0
80	FM Ryan Harper	2237	F8	U—	~—	0.0
81	FM Dan Wolf	2228	F10	U—	~—	0.0
82	No Player	2211	F12	U—	~—	0.0
83	FM Michael Dougherty	2195	L13	L66	~90	0.0
84	FM Visweswaran Kameswaran	2190	L19	L67	~91	0.0
85	Nolan R Hendrickson	2141	L31	L37	~92	0.0
86	Sam A Schmakel	2127	L32	L29	~95	0.0
87	John Michael Williams	2111	L34	L50	~94	0.0
88	WGM Melissa Greeff	2084	L35	L52	~93	0.0
89	Mike Lucente	2046	L38	L51	~96	0.0
90	David Itkin	2041	L39	L53	~83	0.0
91	Kesav Viswanadha	2031	L41	L55	~84	0.0
92	Benedict A Smail	2030	L42	L54	~85	0.0
93	Jonathan Chiang	1934	L45	L57	~88	0.0
94	Peter Hess	1929	L46	L58	~87	0.0
95	Adream Liang	1851	L23	L60	~86	0.0
96	David R Cardenas	unr.	L48	L61	~89	0.0

The Under 2300 to Under 1300 sections are 7 round Swiss tournaments having 4-day, 3-day and 2-day schedules to play in from May 25-28. The Under 1100 section is a 7 round Swiss tournament having 3-day and 2-day schedules to play in from May 26-28. The Under 900 section is a 7 round Swiss tournament that will be played over a 2-day schedule, May 27-28.

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