2016 Chicago Open (Wheeling, IL)
Chicago Open officially starts the summer circuit of tournaments on the American chess landscape. Wheeling will host the 25th edition of the tournament and it expects top players to vie for the $100,000 guaranteed prize fund. The field will feature a strong Chinese contingent including Yu Yangyi, Jianchao Zhou and Ju Wenjun.
Last year Jeffery Xiong scored a historic victory and earned his final GM norm in the process. He had a memorable 2015 and started this year with a creditable performance in the U.S. Championship. What will be the story this year? What new star will emerge? There will be a number of young upstarts as well as a number of veterans in the field.
FM Kevin Wang – GM Yu Yangyi
GM Ju Wenjun (China)
Photos by Daaim Shabazz.
Official Site: https://chicagoopen.net/
Tournament Details: https://www.chesstour.com/chio16.htm
ooooh Nice, Daaim Chi-town! yall even got Ron Burnett practicin! LMBAO, its funny cuz for the last couple of months on chess.com as the ULTRAMODERNIST ive been practicin hes 1d6 2 Bg4 trick!!! and been gettin some fine results with his old trick ! UM wonderin if hes tryna learn my FUNNY KNIGHT TRICK at the CHi-OPEN ? hahaaha. UM hearin in Buffalo, N.Y. chess circles that the Gms get stronger with my trick when u give them 8hrs, is that true? CHESS.
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lookin good Chitown!!! lol Ya Know in Buffalo chess circles the brothas askin me now why are the chinese beatin errbodie, and ya know what i tell them? They doin the work and u not so DO SOME DAMN WORK!!! THE ULTRAMODERNIST – oh Frank Johnson of the ATL if u think some buy in russia is Ultramodern instead of me plaz send them to chess.com their traditional gms Know um there, they felt the wrath , they know UM extremely COMPETITVE. IN REAL LIFE.
Hits the nail on the head… work .. applies to all who look up the tournament hall and see who is sitting on the top boards..!!
LOl Yeah Beardown Um not at the top of ur traditional Crosstables Um actually at the Buffalo Public Library rightbut Um till Chitown! haha, Um LEARNIN CHESS ya know? Adia its quiet in Buffalo Chess Circles by the way! I just saw something Ultrafunny on chess.com , this guy from Ukraine made a blog called Ultra M beat me – Chess.com! haha Check it out its funny! Adia Um sittin here wonderin if the gms need 8hrs to play chess what u think? CHESS.
Great picture of Master Dr Oke Iwu and long time training partner ,Master Dane Mattson looking over pairings for round 1. Captures the hopes of participants as a new chess adventure begins.
Overall very fine pics
Respectable showing by IM Farai Mandizha, but he won’t be getting GM norms by losing to every GM and beating everybody else. At Millionaire Chess he faced 6 GMs and beat 3 of them (Kayden Troff, Alexander Ivanov and Artur Jakubiek) drew 2 of them and only lost to Evgeny Bereev who is near 2700. Unfortunately he only played 7 of 9 rounds. I’ve been looking forward to his results since then.
oh Interesting Patzer, didnt know! i got an Ultramodern question fo ya then, why is he beatin errbodie else and losin to the gms? UM JUST CURIOUS.