The 52nd Annual World Chess Open took place from 3-7th July at the Sheraton Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The event had 6 sections with the total prize fund of $208,000.
The main Open section featured 244 participants. Grandmaster Awonder Liang stormed through the tournament to convincingly win the first place with 8,0/9 points, a full point ahead of the chasing pack. Liang earned USD 20,500 for the effort.
The second place is shared by GM Mikhail Antipov, GM Viktor Matviishen, 18-years old GM Arthur Guo from Atlanta and the untitled surprise Joseph Zeltsan. They were awarded USD 5625 each.
Open section final standings:
1 GM Awonder Liang 2648 USA – 8.0
2-5. GM Mikhail Antipov 2602 FID, GM Viktor Matviishen 2555 UKR, GM Arthur Guo 2529 USA and Joseph Zeltsan 2401 USA – 7.0
6-20. GM Luke Mcshane 2617 ENG, GM Christopher Woojin Yoo 2607 USA, GM John Michael Burke 2591 USA, GM Illia Nyzhnyk 2578 UKR, GM Andrew Hong 2570 USA, GM Tuan Minh Le 2568 VIE, GM Arman Mikaelyan 2524 ARM, GM Brian Escalante 2485 PER, GM Harshit Raja 2483 IND, GM Balaji Daggupati 2480 USA, IM Arystanbek Urazayev 2476 KAZ, GM Srivatshav Peddi Rahul 2473 IND, IM Joshua Posthuma 2414 USA, FM Sharvesh R Deviprasath 2407 USA and Ryan Harada Peterson 2022 USA – 6.5
21-37. GM Jianchao Zhou 2581 CHN, GM David Brodsky 2518 USA, GM Victor Mikhalevski 2499 ISR, IM Brewington Hardaway 2459 USA, GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami 2456 IRI, IM Sam A Schmakel 2442 USA, IM Mykola Bortnyk 2433 UKR, GM Bryan G Smith 2395 USA, IM Matias Gomaz Perez 2390 CHI, IM Alice Lee 2371 USA, FM Tugstumur Yesuntumur 2363 MGL, IM Luis Carlos Torres 2280 MEX, FM Aryan Gutla 2275 USA, Raghav Venkat 2226 USA, Ansh Milinkumar Shah 2181 IND, Jesse Ren 2179 USA and Kaustubh Kodihalli 1968 USA – 6.0 etc (244 players)
