The 15th annual Philadelphia International Chess Tournament took place from 24-28 June at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown which hosted the Philadelphia Open and will be the venue of the 50th World Open starting tomorrow.
GM John Burke triumphed in the Premier group as he had better tiebreaks than GM Brandon Jacobson and IM Minh Tuan Le who had the same score of 7 points. Tiebreak criteria favored Burke who claimed gold, Jacobson came second and Tuan Le came third. (scroll down for final rankings)
The event was played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the total prize fund of 22.000$.

Final rankings – 15th Philadelphia International – Premier group:
Rk
Name
Rtg
Fed
Pts
Tb
Prize
1
GM John Michael Burke
2579
USA
7
42.5
$3,533.34*
2
GM Brandon Jacobson
2526
USA
7
40.5
$3,333.34
3
IM Minh Tuan Le
2514
VIE
7
39.5
$3,333.34
4
IM Semen Khanin
2517
RUS
6.5
$1,050.00
5
IM Viktor Matviishen
2496
UKR
6.5
$1,050.00
6
IM Nikolay Noritsyn
2488
CAN
6.5
$1,050.00
7
IM Jason Liang
2443
USA
6.5
$1,050.00
8
FM Maximillian Lu
2354
USA
6.5
$2,000.00
9
FM Liran Zhou
2350
USA
6
$1,000.00
10
GM Jianchao Zhou
2583
CHN
5.5
$133.34
11
GM Emilio Cordova
2549
PER
5.5
$133.34
12
GM Pablo Salinas Herrera
2532
CHI
5.5
$133.34
13
IM Balaji Daggupati
2494
USA
5.5
$133.34
14
GM Mark Paragua
2475
PHI
5.5
$133.34
15
GM Gabriel Battaglini Flom
2428
FRA
5.5
$133.34
16
IM Safal Bora
2426
USA
5.5
$133.34
17
IM Shiyam Thavandiran
2389
CAN
5.5
$133.34
18
IM Michael A Mulyar
2348
USA
5.5
$133.34
19
FM Vincent Tsay
2310
USA
5.5
$133.34
20
FM Aaron Jacobson
2275
USA
5.5
$133.34
21
FM Jason Wang
2273
USA
5.5
$133.34
22
Gunnar James Andersen
2238
USA
5.5
$2,000.00
23
GM Bilel Bellahcene
2513
ALG
5
24
IM Eddy Tian
2431
USA
5
25
IM Yuanchen Zhang
2370
CAN
5
26
IM Farai Mandizha
2364
ZIM
5
27
FM Rohan Talukdar
2315
CAN
5
28
WIM Alice Lee
2293
USA
5
29
Alex Kolay
2251
USA
5
30
Isaac Chiu
2245
USA
5
$333.34
31
IM J Sai Agni Jeevitesh
2235
IND
5
$333.34
32
Ansh Milinkumar Shah
2143
IND
5
$333.34
33
WGM Jennifer R Yu
2290
USA
4.5
34
FM Ruiyang Yan
2281
USA
4.5
35
WIM Rochelle Wu
2270
USA
4.5
36
FM Seth Homa
2261
USA
4.5
37
FM Marcus Ming Miyasaka
2252
USA
4.5
38
FM Samuel Malka
2223
FRA
4.5
39
Terry Luo
2168
USA
4.5
40
Matthew Puckett
2160
USA
4.5
41
CM Joshua A Altman
2095
ENG
4.5
42
Eric Chang Liu
2019
USA
4.5
43
Eshan Guha
1989
USA
4.5
44
Eddie Xu
1875
CAN
4.5
45
FM Bach Ngo
2327
USA
4
46
FM Christopher Yu-shuo Shen
2291
USA
4
47
FM Deniel Causo
2260
PHI
4
48
FM Anthony Atanasov
2229
CAN
4
49
Shelev Oberoi
2176
USA
4
50
Gnel Melikian
2159
RUS
4
51
Vladyslav Shevkunov
2145
USA
4
52
CM Davis Zong
2141
USA
4
53
FM Norman Rogers
2138
USA
4
54
WFM Zoey Tang
2098
USA
4
55
Anant Adury
2079
USA
4
56
Daniel Girsh
2076
USA
4
57
FM Arthur Xu
2073
USA
4
58
Kelsey Liu
1944
USA
4
59
Derek Jin
1935
USA
4
60
IM Mikhail Zlotnikov
2185
USA
3.5
61
Justin Lee
2115
USA
3.5
62
Harshid Kunka
2088
USA
3.5
63
Eric Cooke
2061
USA
3.5
64
Eric Li
1979
CAN
3.5
65
Victor Zheng
1790
CAN
3.5
66
Hersh Singh
2077
USA
3
67
Tommy Wen
2057
USA
3
68
CM Rohun Trakru
2056
USA
3
69
Chawit Asavasaetakul
1933
THA
3
70
Ethan Su
1843
CAN
3
71
IM Carissa Shiwen Yip
2418
USA
2.5
72
FM Nico Werner Chasin
2302
USA
2.5
73
WCM Iris Zhaoying Mou
2042
USA
2.5
74
WCM Sandhya Goli
1960
IND
2.5
75
Rafael Serrato
1702
COL
2.5
76
FM Milind Maiti
2310
USA
2
77
Rory Dontae Prescod
1267
BAR
2
78
Emar Ephraim Edwards
1708
BAR
1.5
79
Gabriel A Pinales
2021
PUR
1
80
Merric Hu
2075
USA
0.5
81
GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami
2519
IRI
0
82
Paul Obiamiwe
1908
NGR
0
