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Gurevich wins Chicago Class Championship 2009

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Written by Jon Burgess Jon Burgess

Created: 03 August 2009 03 August 2009

GM Dmitry Gurevich has reason to smile he scored 4/5 to take 1st place in the Master section at the 2009 Chicago Class Championships ahead of 1 GM, 2 IM's and 1 FM who all scored 3.5/5 to tie for second place. GM Gurevich is a familiar scene in both IL Chess and events around the country. He is both a strong player and a great chess coach.

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Young Ties for First in the World Open 2009 U2400 Section

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Written by Jon Burgess Jon Burgess

Created: 02 August 2009 02 August 2009

IM Angelo Young went and conquered the U2400 section at the World Open in Philly this last weekend. Playing in a tough section Angelo scored seven points in nine rounds (5 wins, 4 draws and no losses) to end up tied for first place with four other players. Along the way Angelo defeated two other IM's including top rated IM for the section, Timothy Taylor 2399.

A big congrats to Angelo for this excellent performance.

Angelo owns and runs the Touch Move Chess Center in Chicago, always worth a visit.

Not to be outdone by Angelo's peroformance, Martin Niemczewski scored 8.5/9 in the U1200 section to take top honours. That's eight wins and one draw, an incredible performance! In addition to the well-earned prize money, his rating of 1184 will be going up.

Other notable performances from Illinois people included Stoil P. Jotev and Jordan Cohen who both scored 7.5/9 in the U2000 section. They tied for 2nd after playing each other for a draw in the final round. It's too bad when you go out of state and play people from your own state or even worse people you know.

Well done to all players from IL who competed in this year's World Open.

For more info, go to http://www.worldopen.com/. USCF Crosstable

Originally Published by Jon Burgess 6-July-2009

Eric Rosen of IL wins the 2009 US Junior Open

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Written by Jon Burgess Jon Burgess

Created: 02 August 2009 02 August 2009

On the weekend of June 10th 2009 Eric Rosen competed with 48 other players in the U21 section of the US Junior Open.

Eric, the rating favorite for the section, lived up to expectations and scored 4.5/5 drawing his final round game with Kevin Bu from MN. Eric then won the blitz playoff game and will be seeded into the 2010 US Junior Closed Championship. Eric competed with several other Expert players for the coveted first place prize.

With this performance Eric's rating has gone up to 2185 his highest rating ever. He has been an Expert player since the middle of 2008 and it looks like his rating is going up steadily towards the 2200 Master standard. As well as his US rating, Eric also continues to improve his FIDE World rating, He had a very solid performance at the 21st North American FIDE Invitational scoring 4/9.

We wish Eric well as he continues to improve and hope he will become the newest master player in IL soon.

We also hope to see Eric compete this September at the IL Open for the title of IL State Champion.

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Originally published by Jon Burgess 13-July-2009

Illinois Players at the Kentucky Open

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Created: 03 July 2009 03 July 2009

FM Aleksandar Stamnov tied for second with Scott Leo Ramer, both had 4.0 points. Stamnov lost only his last round game against first place winner, IM Bryan Smith.

GB Potratz also put in a good showing, finishing clear third in the U1400 section. Potratz scored 3.5 points, he took a half-point bye in the third round and won all his other games except the fourth round against first place finisher Raysean Whitney.

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