The 25th Annual Chicago Open was held on May 26-30, 2016, 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 strongest Open section with 126 participants was completed over 9 rounds of Swiss system in 5-days.
Grandmaster Vladimir Belous from Russia took a clear first place with 7,5/9 points to claim the top prize of 10,000 USD.
FIDE title norms were achieved as follows: GM norm for Luke Harmon-Vellotti, IM norms for Michael Brown, Zhaozhi Li and Matthew Larson.
Vladimir Belous (photo by RCF)
Open section final standings:
1. GM Vladimir Belous 2557 RUS – 7,5
2-4. GM Varuzhan Akobian 2612 USA, GM Vasif Durarbayli 2596 AZE and GM Wenjun Ju 2559 CHN – 7,0
5-8. GM Yangyi Yu 2737 CHN, GM Illia Nyzhnyk 2622 UKR, GM Andrey Stukopin 2595 RUS and GM Elshan Moradiabadi 2594 FID – 6,5
9-19. GM Aleksandr Shimanov 2631 RUS, GM Jianchao Zhou 2617 CHN, GM Yaroslav Zherebukh 2595 USA, GM Tigran Petrosian 2593 ARM, GM Bartlomiej Macieja 2554 POL, GM Andrey Baryshpolets 2550 UKR, IM Ruifeng Li 2517 USA, GM Ashwin Jayaram 2460 IND, IM Luke Harmon-Vellotti 2409 USA, IM Jake Kleiman 2378 USA, IM Florin Felecan 2320 USA 6,0 etc
