Chicagoland’s longest continuously run chess tournament organized by the same organizer, Tim Just’s Winter Open/Reserve, was held on 3-4th January at the Embassy Suites Chicago North Shore in Deerfield, Illinois, USA.
The tournament format was 5-round Swiss with $4,175 in prizes.
The Open section had 73 participants and is FIDE rated thanks to ChessIQ. GM Vladimir Georgiev and IM Ashwin Jayaram shared the first place with 4,5/5 points to win $500 each.
The Reserve U1800 section had 70 participants. Sergey Antipov (1582) took the top prize of $700 with the perfect score 5,0/5 points.
Open section final standings:
1-2. GM Vladimir Georgiev 2567 and IM Ashwin Jayaram 2514 – 4,5
3-8. GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez 2578, Eric Rosen 2410, Alexander Velikanov 2387, Tansel Turgut 2377, Zach Kasiurak 2287 and Aakaash Meduri 2098 – 4,0
9-15. Sam Schmakel 2424, Petros Karagianis 2290, David Tianji Peng 2264, Akshay Indusekar 2223, Zhaozhi Li 2206, Avinash Rajendra 2088 and Tinglin Shi 2012 – 3,5 etc
Ashwin Jayaram
