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The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
It was organized alongside the 2021 North Carolina Open. The 2021 event attracted 151 players, an event record at the time. The 2021 edition was a 9-round, 5-day super Swiss norm event with a FIDE-rated time control of game in 100 minutes with a 30 second increment. The guaranteed prize fund was $17000, including $5000 for first place.
4 May Haukur Angantýsson Icelandic IM and winner of the 1976 Icelandic Chess Championship and 1979 World Open dies at age 63. 17 June Nathan Divinsky, Canadian chess player and writer, two-time Olympian for Canada, dies at age 86. 15 July Jacqueline Piatigorsky, chess player, patron, sculptor and author, dies at age 100.
Vladimir Belous (born July 29, 1993, in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia) [1] is a chess Grandmaster from Moscow, Russia. He got International Master (IM) [2] title in 2011 and Grandmaster (GM) title in 2013. He was the winner of 25th Annual Chicago Open in 2016 [3] and U.S. Masters Chess Championship in 2017.
In May 2017, Liang earned his final two Grandmaster norms in back-to-back tournaments at the Spring Chess Classic in St. Louis (Group B) and the Chicago Open, with the latter won on May 29. He won the former tournament with a score of 7½/9 and ended up getting 6½/9 at the latter tournament to share 5th to 9th place.
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Finegold tied for first place in the 1994 (Chicago, Illinois) and 2007 (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) U.S. Open Chess Championships. He tied for first (and achieved a grandmaster norm ) in the 2002 World Open (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and also tied for first in the 2005 and 2008 National Open Chess Championships (Las Vegas, Nevada).
April 24 – May 2, 2021 New In Chess Classic: Regular May 23–31, 2021 FTX Crypto Cup: Major June 26 – July 4, 2021 Goldmoney Asian Rapid: Regular July 31 – August 8, 2021 Chessable Masters: Regular August 28 – September 5, 2021 Aimchess US Rapid: Regular September 25 – October 4, 2021 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals: Final