The 24th Annual Chicago Open was held May 21-25, 2015, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois.
The event had 8 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300 and Under 1000.
The Open section with 113 participants was played over 9 rounds of Swiss system (May 21-25) with the time control 40/2, SD/30 d10.
14-year old IM Jeffery Xiong, student of GM Babakuli Annakov and GM Evgeny Pigusov, won the Open Section finishing with 7,0/9 points to claim a $10,300 prize and his 3rd GM norm.
FIDE title norms earned during the event:
GM – Jeffery Xiong, Ashwin Jayaram
IM – Eric Rosen, Atulya Shetty, Sean Vibbert, Gauri Shankar, Kyron Griffith, Qibiao Wang
WIM – Rachel Ulrich, Akshita Gorti
Open section final standings:
1. IM Jeffery Xiong 2497 TX – 7,0
2-9. GM Gata Kamsky 2673 NY, GM Illya Nyzhnyk 2622 UKR, GM Daniel Naroditsky 2622 CA, GM Sergei Azarov 2619 BLR, GM Samuel Sevian 2565 MA, GM Vladimir Georgiev 2550 MKD, GM Vladimir Dobrov 2490 RUS and FM Eric Rosen 2372 IL – 6,5
10-15. GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista 2684 CUB, GM Boris Avrukh 2609 ISR, GM Ioan Chirila 2542 ROU, GM Joshua Friedel 2505 WI, IM Ashwin Jayaram 2466 IND and FM Atulya Shetty 2331 MI – 6,0 etc
