The 7th Annual Philadelphia Open is being held over the Easter week from March 27-31, 2013, at the upscale, luxury Loews Philadelphia Hotel, rated Four Diamonds by AAA, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
71 players are participating in the main section of the event, including 10 GMs and 8 IMs. The participants are fighting for the 7,000 USD first prize.
Cuban GM Fidel Corrales and American IM Daniel Naroditsky are leading the event after 5 rounds. They arrived to the fifth round with perfect scores and drew their game. Chessdom commentator IM Aman Hambleton is among the players in the chasing pack, with 4/5.
Last year winner was GM Magesh Panchanathan.
Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Standings after 5 rounds:
| 1 | GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez | 2601 | CUB | 4.5 |
| 2 | IM Daniel A Naroditsky | 2472 | CA | 4.5 |
| 3 | GM Boris Kreiman | 2482 | NY | 4.0 |
| 4 | IM Aman Hambleton | 2463 | CAN | 4.0 |
| 5 | IM Bryan G Smith | 2460 | PA | 4.0 |
| 6 | FM Jeffery Xiong | 2330 | TX | 4.0 |
| 7 | GM Aleksandr Lenderman | 2601 | NY | 3.5 |
| 8 | GM Robin Van Kampen | 2592 | NED | 3.5 |
| 9 | GM Zviad Izoria | 2583 | NY | 3.5 |
| 10 | GM Magesh Panchanathan | 2579 | IND | 3.5 |
| 11 | GM Giorgi Margvelashvili | 2565 | GEO | 3.5 |
| 12 | IM Darwin Yang | 2486 | TX | 3.5 |
| 13 | FM John Daniel Bryant | 2454 | CA | 3.5 |
| 14 | IM Dean Ippolito | 2423 | NJ | 3.5 |
| 15 | IM Lorin A R D’Costa | 2416 | ENG | 3.5 |
| 16 | FM Adarsh Jayakumar | 2294 | IL | 3.5 |
| 17 | GM Alexander Shabalov | 2550 | PA | 3.0 |
| 18 | GM Alexander Fishbein | 2504 | NJ | 3.0 |
| 19 | GM Mikheil Kekelidze | 2488 | GEO | 3.0 |
| 20 | IM Milos M Pavlovic | 2482 | SRB | 3.0 |
| 21 | IM Bindi Cheng | 2409 | CAN | 3.0 |
| 22 | Robert M Perez | 2361 | FL | 3.0 |
| 23 | FM Carlos E Mena | 2323 | CUB | 3.0 |
| 24 | David Hua | 2256 | NJ | 3.0 |
| 25 | Adithya Balasubramanian | 2253 | IND | 3.0 |
| 26 | Tyrell Harriott | 2249 | NY | 3.0 |
| 27 | FM Dov Gorman | 2243 | NJ | 3.0 |
| 28 | FM Arthur Shen | 2227 | NJ | 3.0 |
| 29 | Safal Bora | 2140 | MI | 3.0 |
| 30 | IM David Vigorito | 2437 | MA | 2.5 |
| 31 | IM Michael A Mulyar | 2382 | CO | 2.5 |
| 32 | IM James A Rizzitano | 2322 | MA | 2.5 |
| 33 | FM Seth Homa | 2307 | MI | 2.5 |
| 34 | WGM Tatev Abrahamyan | 2300 | CA | 2.5 |
| 35 | WIM Lisa Schut | 2289 | NED | 2.5 |
| 36 | WGM Camilla Baginskaite | 2283 | SD | 2.5 |
| 37 | Kevin Wang | 2276 | MD | 2.5 |
| 38 | Alexander B King | 2244 | NY | 2.5 |
| 39 | Michael Song | 2189 | CAN | 2.5 |
| 40 | Benjamin Coraretti | 2123 | NM | 2.5 |
| 41 | Isaac D Leon | 2107 | ECU | 2.5 |
| 42 | FM Awonder Liang | 2005 | WI | 2.5 |
| 43 | IM Farai Mandizha | 2400 | ZIM | 2.0 |
| 44 | FM Thomas Bartell | 2381 | PA | 2.0 |
| 45 | FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy | 2379 | NY | 2.0 |
| 46 | Jared E Defibaugh | 2287 | MD | 2.0 |
| 47 | Kevin Mo | 2282 | PA | 2.0 |
| 48 | FM Akshat Chandra | 2265 | NJ | 2.0 |
| 49 | Thomas M Ulrich | 2239 | WI | 2.0 |
| 50 | Alex Barnett | 2214 | MD | 2.0 |
| 51 | FM Alisa Melekhina | 2211 | PA | 2.0 |
| 52 | Justus D Williams | 2188 | NY | 2.0 |
| 53 | Eric Most | 2167 | VA | 2.0 |
| 54 | Praveen Balakrishnan | 2075 | NJ | 2.0 |
| 55 | Nicolas De T. Checa | 2032 | NY | 2.0 |
| 56 | Yuanchen Zhang | 2018 | CAN | 2.0 |
| 57 | Iryna Zenyuk | 2263 | PA | 1.5 |
| 58 | Christopher Wu | 2244 | NJ | 1.5 |
| 59 | Sean Vibbert | 2235 | IN | 1.5 |
| 60 | Anuprita A Patil | 2079 | IND | 1.5 |
| 61 | Behrooz Ebrahim-Shirazi | 2070 | CAN | 1.5 |
| 62 | FM Aravind Kumar | 2007 | NJ | 1.5 |
| 63 | Alexander Ross Katz | 2254 | NJ | 1.0 |
| 64 | FM Nathan Resika | 2191 | NY | 1.0 |
| 65 | James Chan | 2027 | CAN | 1.0 |
| 66 | Denis F Strenzwilk | 1960 | MD | 1.0 |
| 67 | Matt D Helfst | 1933 | FL | 1.0 |
| 68 | Adream Liang | 1892 | WI | 1.0 |
| 69 | IM Nazi Paikidze | 2392 | GEO | 0.5 |
| 70 | FM Miles F Ardaman | 2283 | NC | 0.5 |
| 71 | Chris Williams | 2150 | MA | 0.0 |
