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The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament usually held in Philadelphia. The inaugural event was held in New York in 1973 with 732 players, and was won by Walter Browne . The tournament is divided into different sections, with typically 100–200 players in the top section.
Magesh Chandran was born in Madurai.In 2003 he won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in Sri Lanka. [1] In 2005 he shared first place with Kamil MitoĊ in the 33rd World Open, played in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend. [2]
He earned his second grandmaster norm at the 2013 Philadelphia Open by tying for first place with Fidel Corrales Jimenez. [11] He earned his final grandmaster norm at the 2013 Benasque Open. [12] Naroditsky was officially awarded the grandmaster title at the end of 2013 at age 18. In 2014, Naroditsky was awarded the Samford Chess Fellowship. [13]
Liang crossed FIDE 2400 at the 49th World Open held in Philadelphia on July 3, 2021, and thus qualified for the IM title. He earned his first IM norm after scoring 7/9 at the Montreal Winter Chess Classic in March 2020. [18] His second IM norm was achieved at the Charlotte Chess Center Summer IM Norm Invitational held in August 2020. [19]
He played in the Chess World Cup 2009 and Chess World Cup 2011, in both cases representing the Cuban Chess Federation, being defeated by Alexander Areshchenko and Judit Polgár, respectively, in the first rounds. In 2023, Jimenez won the World Chess Open in Philadelphia.
In 2017, Barbosa took part in the 45th Annual World Open held from June 29 – July 4, 2017 in Philadelphia, where he landed in the top ten finishing in a tie for 7th place with a score of 6.5/9. It was the highest place achieved so far by a Filipino chess player in the annual Open.
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Ruifeng Li (born 2001) is an American chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title in 2017. [3] [4] [5] As of January 2021, he is ranked 32nd best player in the US. [4] Li won the Arkansas State Championship in 2011 at the age of 8. Later the same year he was the silver medalist in the World Youth Chess Championships under-10 section. [3]