The 31st edition of the annual Chicago open will be held from 26-30 May in Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel.
The event features 8 tournaments being played in different rating categories: Open (for players rated 2200+ UCF), U2300, U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500, U1300 and U1000. The total prize fund of the events is 100.000$ with 10.000$ reserved for the winner of the Open event.
The 31st Chicago Open attracted more than 600 entries with around 100 players in the Open section who will compete in 9 rounds, swiss system. The top seeds are GM Vladimir Akopian, GM Awonder Liang and GM Varuzhan Akobian.
Starting rank list – 31st Chicago Open 2022, Open section:
1
Vladimir Akopian (GM)
2622
2
Awonder Liang (GM)
2613
3
Varuzhan Akobian (GM)
2600
4
Mikhail Antipov (GM)
2592
5
Mikhail Antipov (GM)
2592
6
Jianchao Zhou (GM)
2589
7
Kamil Dragun (GM)
2571
8
Nikolas Theodorou (GM)
2567
9
Timur Gareyev (GM)
2565
10
Tigran K Harutyunian (GM)
2550
11
Emilio Cordova (GM)
2549
12
Fidel Corrales Jimenez (GM) (Withdrawn)
2543
13
Aleksey Sorokin (GM)
2535
14
Giorgi Margvelashvili (GM)
2530
15
Christopher Repka (GM)
2524
16
Bartlomiej Macieja (GM)
2519
17
Viktor Matviishen (IM)
2517
18
Semen Khanin (IM)
2517
19
Arman Mikaelyan (GM)
2502
20
Robby Kevlishvili (GM)
2499
21
Joshua Sheng (GM)
2487
22
Zurab Javakhadze (IM)
2469
23
Jason Liang (IM) (Withdrawn)
2432
24
Safal Bora (IM)
2426
25
Benjamin P Finegold (GM)
2424
26
Craig Hilby (IM)
2420
27
Sam A Schmakel (IM)
2415
28
Zhaozhi Li (IM)
2409
29
Konstantin Kavutskiy (IM)
2407
30
Joshua Posthuma (FM)
2405
31
Dimitar Mardov (IM)
2402
32
Kapil Chandran (FM)
2370
33
Matyas Marek (IM)
2363
34
Tugstumur Yesuntumur (FM)
2363
35
Bach Ngo (FM)
2361
36
Alice Lee (FM) (Withdrawn)
2344
37
Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova (WGM)
2337
38
William Graif (FM)
2335
39
Luis Carlos Torres (IM)
2328
40
Rohan Talukdar (FM)
2323
41
Tanitoluwa Adewumi (FM)
2305
42
Tatev Abrahamyan (WGM)
2297
43
Christopher Yu-Shuo Shen (FM)
2295
44
Gabriela Antova (FM)
2293
45
Eduard Hakobyan
2279
46
Jason Wang (FM)
2273
47
Ryo Wenyu Chen (FM)
2265
48
Seth Homa (FM)
2261
49
Alexandre Kretchetov (FM)
2248
50
Gunnar James Andersen
2244
51
Erick Zhao (FM)
2239
52
Ryan Amburgy
2234
53
Anthony Atanasov (FM)
2229
54
James Canty (FM)
2225
55
Doug D Eckert (FM)
2180
56
Shelev Oberoi
2176
57
Arvind Jayaraman (FM)
2164
58
Matthew Puckett
2160
59
Christoph Eichinger
2122
60
Gabriel Eidelman
2122
61
Yili Wen
2122
62
Nicholas Ladan
2105
63
Nicholas Bruha
2092
64
Harshid Kunka
2088
65
Hersh Singh
2078
66
Alexander Deatrick
2077
67
Jeffrey L Quirke
2077
68
Ethan Thomas Sheehan
2075
69
Okechukwu Anele Nnej Iwu
2046
70
Stephen Adams
2035
71
Raffi David Ghazaryan
2032
72
Isaac Wiebe (Withdrawn)
2031
73
Andrew Jiang
2030
74
Mark Robledo
2026
75
Roger Zhang
2020
76
Eric Chang Liu
2019
77
Saif Shawkat
2016
78
Daniel Wiebe
2004
79
Aakaash Meduri
2000
80
Yu-Cheng Liang
1994
81
Arsal Gardezi
1978
82
Jed Sloan
1974
83
Troy Cavanah
1950
84
Rohit Guha
1945
85
Andrew Guo
1942
86
Steve Wongso
1939
87
Vignesh Anand
1936
88
Aiden Reiss
1922
89
Sho Glashausser
1906
90
Adhvaith Rajanish
1890
91
Eddie Xu
1887
92
Edward Thorpe Dean
1883
93
Frederick S Rhine
1858
94
Benson Schexnaydre
1846
95
James Altucher
1808
96
Vishva Nanugonda
1770
97
Eskandar Saraie (Withdrawn)
1749
98
Aditya Arutla
1709
99
Marcel Dembele
1645
100
Sridhar Seshadri
1555
101
Gary Scott Pratt
1549
102
Sultai Chyngyz
1391
103
Ryan Alexander Santoro
Unr