GM Jeffery Xiong is the Winner of 31st Chicago Open

The 31st edition of the annual Chicago open took place from 26-30 May in Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel.

The event featured 8 tournaments being played in different rating categories: Open (for players rated 2200+ UCF), U2300, U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500, U1300 and U1000 and gathered more than 600 entries who fought for the total prize fund of 100.000$. 31st Chicago Open all information

The main, Open section tournament was played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with four players tying for the top scoring 7/9 points, each. GM Jeffery Xiong, GM Jianchao Zhou, GM Aleksey Sorokin and GM Awonder Liang were in the shared lead with tiebreaks criteria determining the final rankings. GM Xiong Jeffery repeated his success from 2015 when he had 14 years, and again clinched the Chicago Open as he had the best Bucholz. Along with the trophy and gold medal, Xiong claimed 5.000$ money prize.

GM Jianchao Zhou was second, GM Aleksey Sorokin claimed bronze and GM Awonder Liang finished on the fourth place, each winning the money prize of 4.700$. (scroll down for final rankings)
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Final rankings – 31st Chicago Open:

1	GM Jeffery Xiong	2688	7	42.5	5000
2	GM Jianchao Zhou	2589	7	42	4700
3	GM Aleksey Sorokin	2535	7	38	4700
4	GM Awonder Liang	2613	7	34.5	4700
5	GM Emilio Cordova	2549	6.5	41.5	616.67
6	GM Robby Kevlishvili	2499	6.5	41.5	616.67
7	GM Arman Mikaelyan	2502	6.5	41	616.67
8	GM Alexander Shabalov	2504	6.5	40.5	616.67
9	IM Semen Khanin	2517	6.5	38.5	616.67
10	GM Varuzhan Akobian	2600	6.5	37	616.67
11	GM Timur Gareyev	2565	6	43
12	GM Vladimir Akopian	2622	6	42
13	IM Konstantin Kavutskiy	2407	6	41.5
14	IM Sam A Schmakel	2415	6	39.5
15	IM Viktor Matviishen	2517	6	38
16	GM Christopher Repka	2524	6	37.5
17	GM Bartlomiej Macieja	2519	6	37
18	GM Joshua Sheng	2487	6	37
19	IM Craig Hilby	2420	6	36
20	GM Mikhail Antipov	2592	5.5	43
21	IM Safal Bora	2426	5.5	42.5
22	FM Kirk Vagho Ghazarian	2427	5.5	40
23	GM Tigran K Harutyunian	2550	5.5	39
24	FM Joshua Posthuma	2405	5.5	38.5
25	Shelev Oberoi	2176	5.5	38.5	750
26	GM Kamil Dragun	2571	5.5	37.5
27	FM Yoon-young Kim	2315	5.5	37	750
28	FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi	2305	5.5	36.5	750
29	GM Brandon Jacobson	2526	5.5	35
30	FM Akira Wood Nakada	2324	5.5	33	750
31	Andy Lin	2251	5	42.5
32	FM Jason Wang	2273	5	41
33	IM Mark Plotkin	2350	5	40.5
34	FM Seth Homa	2261	5	39.5
35	Caleb Sean Denby	2184	5	38.5
36	WIM Gabriela Antova	2293	5	38
37	IM Michael A Mulyar	2348	5	37.5
38	FM Rohan Talukdar	2323	5	37.5
39	FM Christopher Yu-Shuo Shen	2295	5	37
40	FM Aaron Jacobson	2275	5	37
41	Gunnar James Andersen	2244	5	37
42	IM Matyas Marek	2363	5	36.5
43	IM Luis Carlos Torres	2328	5	36
44	WGM Tatev Abrahamyan	2297	5	36
45	FM Sandeep Sethuraman	2330	5	35.5
46	Eduard Hakobyan	2279	5	35
47	GM Benjamin P Finegold	2424	5	34.5
48	FM Tugstumur Yesuntumur	2363	5	34.5
49	FM Bach Ngo	2361	5	34.5
50	FM Ryo Wenyu Chen	2265	5	32.5
51	Ryan Amburgy	2234	5	32.5
52	Stephen Adams	2035	5	32.5
53	FM Anthony Atanasov	2229	5	32
54	Okechukwu Anele Nnej Iwu	2046	5	29.5
55	FM Kapil Chandran	2370	4.5	25.5
56	Ethan Thomas Sheehan	2075	4.5	24
57	FM Erick Zhao	2239	4.5	23.5
58	FM Samrug Narayanan	2348	4.5	23
59	Yu-Cheng Liang	1994	4.5	23
60	FM William Graif	2335	4.5	21.5
61	Rohit Guha	1945	4.5	21.5
62	Matthew Puckett	2160	4.5	21
63	Nicholas Ladan	2105	4.5	20.5
64	Ankush Moolky	1974	4.5	20.5
65	Gabriel Eidelman	2122	4.5	17
66	IM Justin Joseph Sarkar	2325	4.5	15.5
67	Harshid Kunka	2088	4	32.5
68	FM Dalton Perrine	2280	4	31.5
69	Deepak Aaron	2230	4	30.5
70	Jed Sloan	1974	4	30.5
71	Nicolas De La Colina	2091	4	29.5
72	IM Kevin Wang	2380	4	27.5
73	Jonathan Sterling Kogen	2233	4	27.5
74	IM Edward Song	2390	4	27
75	FM James Canty	2225	4	26.5
76	Sho Glashausser	1906	4	26.5
77	Aiden Reiss	1922	4	24.5
78	Eddie Xu	1887	4	24
79	Aditya Gupta	2047	4	23
80	Alexander Deatrick	2077	4	22.5
81	IM Dimitar Mardov	2402	4	22
82	FM Arvind Jayaraman	2164	4	18.5
83	Christoph Eichinger	2122	4	17
84	Daniel Wiebe	2004	3.5	27
85	Arsal Gardezi	1978	3.5	27
86	Jeffrey L Quirke	2077	3.5	26
87	Jesse Ren	1884	3.5	26
88	Pedro Espinosa	2019	3.5	25
89	Adhvaith Rajanish	1890	3.5	24.5
90	James Altucher	1808	3.5	23.5
91	Yili Wen	2122	3.5	23
92	Donald Johnson	2102	3.5	22.5
93	Saif Shawkat	2016	3.5	22.5
94	Mark Robledo	2026	3.5	20.5
95	Andrew Guo	1942	3.5	20
96	Edward Thorpe Dean	1883	3.5	20
97	Nicholas Bruha	2092	3.5	19.5
98	Frederick S Rhine	1858	3.5	17.5
99	Hersh Singh	2078	3.5	16.5
100	Matthew Kent Pikus	1559	3.5	16.5
101	WFM Sanjana Vittal	2015	3	25.5
102	Gabriel A Pinales	2021	3	23.5
103	Marcel Dembele	1645	3	23
104	FM Eugene Yanayt	2077	3	22.5
105	Vishva Nanugonda	1770	3	22.5
106	Steve Wongso	1939	3	22
107	Michael William Auger	2154	3	21.5
108	Raffi David Ghazaryan	2032	3	21.5
109	WFM Nastassja A Matus	1908	3	20
110	IM Justus Williams	2417	3	12.5
111	Benson Schexnaydre	1846	2.5	25.5
112	Vignesh Anand	1936	2.5	25
113	Troy Cavanah	1950	2.5	22.5
114	Sultai Chyngyz	1391	2.5	22.5
115	Deniz Alp Gulecyuz	1975	2.5	19
116	Eric Chang Liu	2019	2.5	13
117	Sridhar Seshadri	1555	2.5	12.5
118	Ryan Alexander Santoro	unr.	2	16.5
119	GM Dmitry Gurevich	2363	2	6.5
120	WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova	2337	1.5	0
121	Gary Scott Pratt	1549	1	16
122	Akshay Indusekar	2087	1	11
123	FM Doug D Eckert	2180	1	2.5
124	Harry Le	2095	0.5	0
125	Andrew Jiang	2030	0.5	0
126	Aditya Arutla	1709	0	3.5
127	Paul Fricano	1882	0	0

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