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GM Zhou Jianchao clinched Chicago Chess Open 2023!
The 32nd edition of theย Chicago Chess Open 2023ย took place from 25-29 May at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel in Chicago. The event featured a $100.000 prize fund and it was played in 8 rating categories: Open, U2300, U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500, U1300 and U1000.
Three players tied for the top of the main Open section scoring 7/9 points, each: GM Jianchao Zhou (China, 2555), GM Emilio Cordova (Peru, 2543) and GM Awonder Liang (USA, 2651). They shared the money prize of $17,500 in three equal parts, taking home $5,833.

All results and standings of all rating sections can be found here. The standings for the Open section can be seen below.
Final rankings – Chicago Chess Open 2023:
| Rk | Name | Fed | Rating | Pts |
| 1 | GM Jianchao Zhou | CHN | 2555 | 7 |
| 2 | GM Emilio Cordova | PER | 2543 | 7 |
| 3 | GM Awonder Liang | USA | 2651 | 7 |
| 4 | GM Giorgi Margvelashvili | GEO | 2530 | 6.5 |
| 5 | IM Dimitar Mardov | USA | 2461 | 6.5 |
| 6 | GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami | IRI | 2463 | 6.5 |
| 7 | IM Michael A Mulyar | USA | 2364 | 6.5 |
| 8 | IM Olivier Chiku-ratte | CAN | 2311 | 6.5 |
| 9 | GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez | USA | 2489 | 6 |
| 10 | GM Grzegorz Nasuta | POL | 2550 | 6 |
| 11 | Harshid Kunka | USA | 2347 | 6 |
| 12 | GM Oskar Wieczorek | POL | 2512 | 6 |
| 13 | IM Liordis Quesada Vera | CUB | 2322 | 6 |
| 14 | IM Jason Wang | USA | 2425 | 6 |
| 15 | GM Robby Kevlishvili | NED | 2541 | 6 |
| 16 | IM Sam A Schmakel | USA | 2420 | 6 |
| 17 | IM Jakub Kosakowski | POL | 2485 | 6 |
| 18 | Matthew Puckett | USA | 2136 | 6 |
| 19 | FM Tugstumur Yesuntumur | MGL | 2388 | 6 |
| 20 | FM Joseph Levine | USA | 2392 | 5.5 |
| 21 | Eric Chang Liu | USA | 2299 | 5.5 |
| 22 | Ethan Thomas Sheehan | USA | 2151 | 5.5 |
| 23 | FM Erick Zhao | USA | 2275 | 5.5 |
| 24 | Deepak Aaron | USA | 2248 | 5.5 |
| 25 | GM Nikola Mitkov | MKD | 2477 | 5.5 |
| 26 | Andrew Jiang | USA | 2201 | 5.5 |
| 27 | IM Robert Shlyakhtenko | USA | 2427 | 5.5 |
| 28 | IM Ryo Wenyu Chen | USA | 2406 | 5.5 |
| 29 | FM Brewington Hardaway | USA | 2363 | 5.5 |
| 30 | IM Joshua Posthuma | USA | 2457 | 5.5 |
| 31 | FM Aryan Gutla | USA | 2344 | 5.5 |
| 32 | GM Praveen Balakrishnan | USA | 2515 | 5.5 |
| 33 | IM Luis Carlos Torres | MEX | 2325 | 5 |
| 34 | Gunnar Andersen | USA | 2283 | 5 |
| 35 | Nicholas Ladan | USA | 2228 | 5 |
| 36 | IM Tianqi Wang | USA | 2362 | 5 |
| 37 | FM Dachey Lin | USA | 2299 | 5 |
| 38 | FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi | USA | 2283 | 5 |
| 39 | Andrew Lewis Titus | USA | 2140 | 5 |
| 40 | WIM Zoey Tang | USA | 2348 | 5 |
| 41 | FM Gus Huston | USA | 2347 | 5 |
| 42 | Havish Sripada | USA | 1918 | 5 |
| 43 | FM Adegboyega Joel Adebayo | NGR | 2327 | 5 |
| 44 | Nicolas De La Colina | USA | 2244 | 5 |
| 45 | FM Gabriela Antova | BUL | 2259 | 5 |
| 46 | IM Nicholas Vettese | CAN | 2283 | 5 |
| 47 | Vincent Latorre | CAN | 2070 | 5 |
| 48 | Arsal Gardezi | USA | 2093 | 5 |
| 49 | Roger Zhang | USA | 1879 | 5 |
| 50 | FM Seth Homa | USA | 2213 | 5 |
| 51 | FM Andy Lin | USA | 2312 | 4.5 |
| 52 | FM Samrug Narayanan | USA | 2297 | 4.5 |
| 53 | Raghav Venkat | USA | 2188 | 4.5 |
| 54 | FM Ryan Amburgy | USA | 2246 | 4.5 |
| 55 | Kevin Velazquez | USA | 1988 | 4.5 |
| 56 | Niko Pompe | SLO | 2007 | 4.5 |
| 57 | WGM Oleiny Linares Napoles | CUB | 2236 | 4.5 |
| 58 | Vaseegaran Nandhakumar | USA | 2008 | 4.5 |
| 59 | CM Prateek Mishra | USA | 2175 | 4.5 |
| 60 | Ronak Hiwale | USA | 1992 | 4.5 |
| 61 | Rishi T Narayanan | USA | 1876 | 4.5 |
| 62 | Jesse Ren | USA | 2005 | 4.5 |
| 63 | Matthew Wofford | USA | 1999 | 4.5 |
| 64 | Nicholas Bruha | USA | 1977 | 4.5 |
| 65 | Elijah Samuel Platnick | USA | 1953 | 4.5 |
| 66 | Michael John Takahashi | USA | 2051 | 4.5 |
| 67 | Joseph Cheng-yue Wan | USA | 2167 | 4.5 |
| 68 | Aadit Bhatia | IND | 1926 | 4 |
| 69 | Jashith Karthi | USA | 1876 | 4 |
| 70 | CM Dhruv Khosla | IND | 1937 | 4 |
| 71 | IM Yuanchen Zhang | CAN | 2306 | 4 |
| 72 | WFM Yassamin Ehsani | USA | 2037 | 4 |
| 73 | Rose Atwell | USA | 2108 | 4 |
| 74 | Jeffrey L Quirke | USA | 2007 | 4 |
| 75 | Isaac Wiebe | CAN | 2006 | 4 |
| 76 | FM Kapil Chandran | USA | 2351 | 4 |
| 77 | Avi Harrison Kaplan | USA | 2146 | 4 |
| 78 | Adhvaith Rajanish | USA | 1930 | 4 |
| 79 | IM Jason Liang | USA | 2530 | 4 |
| 80 | FM Ryan Harper | TTO | 2255 | 4 |
| 81 | WFM Michalina Rudzinska | POL | 2297 | 4 |
| 82 | IM Kevin Wang | USA | 2410 | 4 |
| 83 | CM Jed Sloan | USA | 2006 | 4 |
| 84 | Daniel Yedidia | USA | 2041 | 3.5 |
| 85 | Eduard Danilyan | USA | 1849 | 3.5 |
| 86 | Linxi Zhu | USA | 1779 | 3.5 |
| 87 | Mauro Alberto Lopez | MEX | 2045 | 3.5 |
| 88 | Anshul P Shetty | USA | 1993 | 3.5 |
| 89 | Ryan Daniel Clayton | USA | 2157 | 3.5 |
| 90 | Jack Heller | USA | 1842 | 3.5 |
| 91 | Okechukwu Anele Nnej Iwu | USA | 2049 | 3.5 |
| 92 | Derek Chen | USA | 1848 | 3.5 |
| 93 | WCM Natalie Wisniowski | USA | 1960 | 3.5 |
| 94 | Yusuf Mansurov | USA | 1731 | 3.5 |
| 95 | IM Artiom Samsonkin | CAN | 2420 | 3.5 |
| 96 | Advait Nair | USA | 1812 | 3.5 |
| 97 | James L Nguyen | USA | 2088 | 3.5 |
| 98 | Sreekar Gangavarapu | USA | 2022 | 3.5 |
| 99 | Rohit Guha | USA | 1970 | 3.5 |
| 100 | Max Chang | USA | 1990 | 3.5 |
| 101 | Avinash Shashikala Rajendra | USA | 1996 | 3.5 |
| 102 | Stephen Adams | USA | 2097 | 3 |
| 103 | Dane Mattson | USA | 2031 | 3 |
| 104 | Sullivan Mac Mcconnell | USA | 2037 | 3 |
| 105 | Carter Frank Peatman | USA | 1998 | 3 |
| 106 | Eric Starkman | USA | 1866 | 3 |
| 107 | GM Alexander Shabalov | USA | 2480 | 3 |
| 108 | Isaiah Gadson | USA | 2063 | 3 |
| 109 | Shelev Oberoi | USA | 2229 | 3 |
| 110 | William Wu | USA | 1991 | 3 |
| 111 | Ajitesh Nair | USA | 1822 | 2.5 |
| 112 | Evan Sammons | USA | 1984 | 2.5 |
| 113 | WFM Nastassja A Matus | USA | 1981 | 2.5 |
| 114 | Griffin Thomas Mcconnell | USA | 1995 | 2.5 |
| 115 | Edward Thorpe Dean | USA | 1870 | 2.5 |
| 116 | Matthew Kent Pikus | USA | 1588 | 2.5 |
| 117 | Chloe Gaw | USA | 1911 | 2.5 |
| 118 | FM Alexandre Kretchetov | RUS | 2195 | 2.5 |
| 119 | GM Dmitry Gurevich | USA | 2393 | 2.5 |
| 120 | Kyriakos Kypriotakis | GRE | 1258 | 2.5 |
| 121 | James Altucher | USA | 1812 | 2 |
| 122 | Paul Fricano | USA | 1849 | 2 |
| 123 | Ankush Moolky | USA | 1990 | 2 |
| 124 | Rohit Bhatta | USA | 1741 | 1.5 |
| 125 | Eskandar Saraie | USA | 1646 | 1 |
| 126 | FM Eugene Yanayt | USA | 2004 | 1 |
| 127 | Alexander Deatrick | USA | 2111 | 0.5 |
| 128 | Daniel G Pomerantz | CAN | 1997 | 0 |