Sargissian Wins Chicago Open
Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia won the 21st Annual Chicago Open with a score of 7/9, half a point clear of his nearest rivals.
Top seed Michael Adams never really recovered from a poor start, including a loss in round three (see previous report) and finished in 9th place on 6/9.
Young Chess.com member FM Kayden Troff had a very creditable result, drawing with Michael Adams in round 1 (see our first report), and finishing on 5/9 which was good enough to earn a second IM norm. Congratulations Kayden!
The final standings in Chicago:
| Name | Elo | Pts | |
| 1 | GM Gabriel Sargissian | 2679 | 7.0 |
| 2 | GM Robert L Hess | 2635 | 6.5 |
| 3 | GM Tamaz Gelashvili | 2600 | 6.5 |
| 4 | GM Alejandro Ramirez | 2593 | 6.5 |
| 5 | GM Milos Perunovic | 2577 | 6.5 |
| 6 | GM Nikola Mitkov | 2518 | 6.5 |
| 7 | GM Mesgen Amanov | 2518 | 6.5 |
| 8 | IM Daniel J Ludwig | 2456 | 6.5 |
| 9 | GM Michael Adams | 2728 | 6.0 |
| 10 | GM Ivan Ivanisevic | 2655 | 6.0 |
| 11 | GM Yury Shulman | 2571 | 6.0 |
| 12 | GM Eugene Perelshteyn | 2526 | 6.0 |
| 13 | GM Victor Mikhalevski | 2519 | 6.0 |
| 14 | IM Darwin Yang | 2476 | 6.0 |
| 15 | GM Varuzhan Akobian | 2625 | 5.5 |
| 16 | GM Giorgi Kacheishvili | 2598 | 5.5 |
| 17 | IM Conrad Holt | 2515 | 5.5 |
| 18 | GM Joshua E Friedel | 2499 | 5.5 |
| 19 | GM Mikheil Kekelidze | 2494 | 5.5 |
| 20 | IM Nikoloz Managadze | 2472 | 5.5 |
| 21 | GM Dmitry Gurevich | 2471 | 5.5 |
| 22 | IM Eric Hansen | 2454 | 5.5 |
| 23 | IM John Bartholomew | 2445 | 5.5 |
| 24 | FM Teddy Coleman | 2407 | 5.5 |
| 25 | IM Daniel M Rensch | 2396 | 5.5 |
| 26 | GM Alexander Shabalov | 2534 | 5.0 |
| 27 | GM Benjamin Finegold | 2494 | 5.0 |
| 28 | IM Justin Sarkar | 2411 | 5.0 |
| 29 | IM Zhanibek Amanov | 2401 | 5.0 |
| 30 | IM David Pruess | 2390 | 5.0 |
| 31 | IM Ronald Burnett | 2360 | 5.0 |
| 32 | FM Kazim Gulamali | 2346 | 5.0 |
| 33 | FM Alexan Kretchetov | 2339 | 5.0 |
| 34 | WGM Tatev Abrahamyan | 2329 | 5.0 |
| 35 | FM Kayden W Troff | 2276 | 5.0 |
| 36 | FM Miles F Ardaman | 2252 | 5.0 |
| 37 | FM Victor Plotkin | 2243 | 5.0 |
| 38 | Atulya Ary Shetty | 2219 | 5.0 |
| 39 | Sean Vibbert | 2214 | 5.0 |
| 40 | James A Black Jr | 2201 | 5.0 |
| 41 | Justus D Williams | 2189 | 5.0 |
| 42 | Kevin Y Cao | 2151 | 5.0 |
| 43 | Kai Jie Edward Lee | 2102 | 5.0 |
| 44 | Thomas M Ulrich | 2086 | 5.0 |
| 45 | FM Kassa Korley | 2334 | 4.5 |
| 46 | FM Seth Homa | 2303 | 4.5 |
| 47 | FM Jeffery Xiong | 2180 | 4.5 |
| 48 | Okechukwu A Iwu | 2161 | 4.5 |
| 49 | Joshua Colas | 2083 | 4.5 |
| 50 | Sarah Chiang | 2033 | 4.5 |
| 51 | Benedict A Smail | 2030 | 4.5 |
| 52 | IM Raja Panjwani | 2416 | 4.0 |
| 53 | IM Vishnuvardh Arjun | 2296 | 4.0 |
| 54 | Timur Aliyev | 2258 | 4.0 |
| 55 | WIM Viktorija Ni | 2228 | 4.0 |
| 56 | FM Michael Dougherty | 2195 | 4.0 |
| 57 | Steven D Greanias | 2155 | 4.0 |
| 58 | David Itkin | 2041 | 4.0 |
| 59 | FM Tommy O He | 1948 | 4.0 |
| 60 | Dante Zuniga | unr. | 4.0 |
| 61 | FM Farai Mandizha | 2406 | 3.5 |
| 62 | IM Angelo Young | 2338 | 3.5 |
| 63 | FM Robby Adamson | 2322 | 3.5 |
| 64 | FM Gauri Shankar | 2307 | 3.5 |
| 65 | Bradley J Denton | 2267 | 3.5 |
| 66 | Konstantinos Stoumbos | 2249 | 3.5 |
| 67 | Christopher Wu | 2204 | 3.5 |
| 68 | Gopal Menon | 2180 | 3.5 |
| 69 | Sam A Schmakel | 2127 | 3.5 |
| 70 | John Michael Williams | 2111 | 3.5 |
| 71 | Derek Ri Paitrick | 2104 | 3.5 |
| 72 | WGM Melissa Greeff | 2084 | 3.5 |
| 73 | Benjamin Coraretti | 2066 | 3.5 |
| 74 | Jonathan Chiang | 1934 | 3.5 |
| 75 | FM Awonder Liang | 1890 | 3.5 |
| 76 | Adream Liang | 1851 | 3.5 |
| 77 | IM Michael A Mulyar | 2408 | 3.0 |
| 78 | IM Florin Felecan | 2399 | 3.0 |
| 79 | FM Eric S Rosen | 2353 | 3.0 |
| 80 | FM Alisa Melekhina | 2242 | 3.0 |
| 81 | Trevor S Magness | 2163 | 3.0 |
| 82 | Nolan R Hendrickson | 2141 | 3.0 |
| 83 | Daniel McGowan | 2111 | 3.0 |
| 84 | FM Aung T Zin | 2299 | 2.5 |
| 85 | FM Nikhilesh Kunche | 2250 | 2.5 |
| 86 | Mike Lucente | 2046 | 2.5 |
| 87 | Kesav Viswanadha | 2031 | 2.5 |
| 88 | Peter Hess | 1929 | 2.5 |
| 89 | Dan E Mayers | 1912 | 2.5 |
| 90 | Vasanta Wettasinha | 1827 | 2.5 |
| 91 | David R Cardenas | unr. | 1.5 |
| 92 | FM V. Kameswaran | 2190 | 1.0 |
| 93 | Jalen Wang | unr. | 0.5 |
| 94 | IM Rahul Shetty | 2242 | 0.0 |
| 95 | FM Ryan Harper | 2237 | 0.0 |
| 96 | FM Dan Wolf | 2228 | 0.0 |
| 97 | Alexander Cha Qin | 1600 | 0.0 |
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The event had 9 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, Under 1100 and Under 900.
Full details of all the results in all sections are available at the official website, and completed games can be replayed here.
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