The 41st Annual World Chess Open is taking place from June 29 to July 7, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.
The event has a $250,000 prize fund based on 1180 paid entries, with $175,000 guaranteed.
The main section counts among his participants strong GMs both from the United States and abroad. The huge first prize of 20.000 US dollars attracted a lot of players to Arlington.
The tight schedule and the huge amount of players create new challenges for the players. They will have to fight for first place in different circumstances to the ones seen in Europe. However, this is nicely compensated by the juicy cash prizes.
After three rounds, Indian Parimarjan Negi, together with young Americans Ray Robson and Alexander Fishbein are the only players that kept a perfect score, leading the standings.
Standings after 3 rounds:
1 | GM Parimarjan Negi | 2634 | IND | 3.0 |
2 | GM Ray Robson | 2628 | MO | 3.0 |
3 | GM Alexander Fishbein | 2504 | NJ | 3.0 |
4 | GM Quesada Yuniesky | 2639 | CUB | 2.5 |
5 | GM Varuzhan Akobian | 2612 | KS | 2.5 |
6 | GM Giorgi Kacheishvili | 2588 | GEO | 2.5 |
7 | GM Tamaz Gelashvili | 2572 | GEO | 2.5 |
8 | GM Victo Mikhalevski | 2552 | ISR | 2.5 |
9 | IM Mackenzie S Molner | 2501 | AZ | 2.5 |
10 | Irina Krush | 2480 | NY | 2.5 |
11 | FM Aleksandr A Ostrovskiy | 2403 | NY | 2.5 |
12 | FM Arthur Shen | 2286 | NJ | 2.5 |
13 | Christopher Gu | 2264 | RI | 2.5 |
14 | GM Lazaro Bruzon | 2689 | CUB | 2.0 |
15 | GM Viktor Laznicka | 2684 | CZE | 2.0 |
16 | GM Vadim Milov | 2643 | SUI | 2.0 |
17 | GM Zviad Izoria | 2574 | NY | 2.0 |
18 | GM Yury Shulman | 2542 | IL | 2.0 |
19 | GM Marc Tyler Arnold | 2525 | NY | 2.0 |
20 | GM Joshua E Friedel | 2506 | WI | 2.0 |
21 | IM Justin Sarkar | 2451 | NY | 2.0 |
22 | IM Kayden W Troff | 2427 | UT | 2.0 |
23 | IM Keaton Kiewra | 2422 | NE | 2.0 |
24 | IM Vitaly Neimer | 2393 | MO | 2.0 |
25 | FM Michael H Bodek | 2386 | NY | 2.0 |
26 | Yian Liou | 2381 | CA | 2.0 |
27 | Robert M Perez | 2379 | FL | 2.0 |
28 | FM Luke C Harmon-vellotti | 2368 | ID | 2.0 |
29 | FM Ali Morshedi | 2223 | CA | 2.0 |
30 | GM Magesh Panchanathan | 2583 | IND | 1.5 |
31 | GM Alex Shabalov | 2553 | PA | 1.5 |
32 | GM Aleksandr Lenderman | 2548 | NY | 1.5 |
33 | GM Mikheil Kekelidze | 2494 | GEO | 1.5 |
34 | GM Mesgen Amanov | 2484 | IL | 1.5 |
35 | IM Jan Van De Mortel | 2430 | CT | 1.5 |
36 | IM Tegshsuren Enkhbat | 2428 | MD | 1.5 |
37 | FM John Danie Bryant | 2415 | CA | 1.5 |
38 | IM Bindi Cheng | 2406 | ON | 1.5 |
39 | FM Shiyam Thavandiran | 2338 | ON | 1.5 |
40 | FM Alec Getz | 2332 | NY | 1.5 |
41 | GM Lawrence Charles Kaufman | 2325 | MD | 1.5 |
42 | Kevin Wang | 2297 | MD | 1.5 |
43 | FM Robby Adamson | 2271 | AZ | 1.5 |
44 | FM Adarsh Jayakumar | 2269 | IL | 1.5 |
45 | FM Kassa Korley | 2258 | NY | 1.5 |
46 | Sean Vibbert | 2256 | IN | 1.5 |
47 | Carlos E Mena | 2252 | 1.5 | |
48 | Alex Miche Fikiet | 2238 | CT | 1.5 |
49 | GM F Corrales Jimenez | 2597 | CUB | 1.0 |
50 | IM Bogdan Vioreanu | 2404 | ROM | 1.0 |
51 | IM Dario Alzate | 2365 | – | 1.0 |
52 | WGM Tatev Abrahamyan | 2316 | CA | 1.0 |
53 | Carl Boor | 2309 | IL | 1.0 |
54 | Kazim Gulamali | 2307 | GA | 1.0 |
55 | A Balasubramanian | 2298 | VA | 1.0 |
56 | FM Michael Kleinman | 2298 | ON | 1.0 |
57 | Deepak Aaron | 2271 | NY | 1.0 |
58 | Thomas Ulrich | 2259 | WI | 1.0 |
59 | Joshua Colas | 2225 | NY | 1.0 |
60 | Kevin Y Cao | 2223 | MO | 1.0 |
61 | Justus Wiliams | 2199 | NY | 1.0 |
62 | Janak Awatramani | 2193 | AB | 1.0 |
63 | Michael Chiang | 2183 | NY | 1.0 |
64 | Jonathan Chiang | 2131 | TX | 1.0 |
65 | WFM Ramya Krishna Inapuri | 2104 | IL | 1.0 |
66 | Sarah Chiang | 2084 | TX | 1.0 |
67 | James Chan | 2009 | CAN | 1.0 |
68 | Taher Al Khateeb | 1984 | KUW | 1.0 |
69 | Guillermo L Nieto | 1796 | 1.0 | |
70 | WIM Prathiba Yuvarajan | 2193 | TA | 0.5 |
71 | FM Steven D Greanias | 2140 | VA | 0.5 |
72 | GM Nikola Mitkov | 2508 | IL | 0.0 |
73 | FM Leif A Pressman | 2191 | NY | 0.0 |
74 | Ian Schoch | 2188 | MD | 0.0 |
75 | WIM Viktorija Ni | 2173 | IL | 0.0 |
76 | WFM Alena Kats | 2127 | NY | 0.0 |
77 | Nicholas A Ryba | 2124 | NY | 0.0 |
78 | Leif K Karell | 1963 | MD | 0.0 |
79 | Sam Sloan | 1881 | NY | 0.0 |
80 | Trevor Jung | unr. | WA | 0.0 |
