Chicago Open 2026
May 21, 2026 - May 25, 2026
View Live Games: https://www.chess.com/events/35th-annual-chicago-open/games
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Pairings for Open:
Pairings for Round 9. CCA_CHI26: OP-5
| Bd | Res | White | Res | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ½ | GM Alexey Sarana (2715 6.5) | ½ | GM Viktor Matviishen (2621 6.5) |
| 2 | ½ | GM Jianchao Zhou (2669 6.5) | ½ | GM Nico Werner Chasin (2554 6.0) |
| 3 | ½ | GM Awonder Liang (2788 6.0) | ½ | GM Brandon Jacobson (2672 6.0) |
| 4 | 1 | GM Semen Khanin (2696 6.0) | 0 | GM Emilio Cordova Daza (2575 6.0) |
| 5 | 1 | IM Jason S Liang (2527 6.0) | 0 | GM Francesco Sonis (2629 5.5) |
| 6 | 1 | GM Bharath Subramaniyam H (2659 5.5) | 0 | GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami (2557 5.5) |
| 7 | 1 | IM Liam Henry Putnam (2556 5.5) | 0 | GM Samy Shoker (2538 5.5) |
| 8 | ½ | IM Tanitoluwa Adewumi (2558 5.5) | ½ | IM Edward Song (2485 5.5) |
| 9 | ½ | GM Brian Escalante (2504 5.5) | ½ | Sam Luger (2316 5.5) |
| 10 | ½ | IM Tianqi Wang (2442 5.5) | ½ | GM Harsha Bharathakoti (2602 5.0) |
| 11 | 0 | FM Daniel Girsh (2434 5.0) | 1 | GM Sergio Barrientos (2524 5.0) |
| 12 | 1 | IM Sam A Schmakel (2551 5.0) | 0 | IM Bryan Xie (2431 5.0) |
| 13 | 1 | IM Joseph Levine (2486 5.0) | 0 | FM James Andrei Chirilov (2332 5.0) |
| 14 | 1 | IM Roman Pyrih (2490 5.0) | 0 | Jesse Ren (2350 5.0) |
| 15 | ½ | IM Joshua Posthuma (2473 5.0) | ½ | David Schabert (2263 5.0) |
| 16 | 1 | Broderick Bauml (2218 5.0) | 0 | FM Dachey Lin (2439 5.0) |
| 17 | ½ | IM Augusto Cesar Campos (2385 4.5) | ½ | GM Tigran L Petrosian (2695 4.5) |
| 18 | ½ | FM Saumil Padhya (2379 4.5) | ½ | FM Sharvesh R Deviprasath (2556 4.5) |
| 19 | 1 | IM Raja Panjwani (2507 4.5) | 0 | Nicholas Ladan (2345 4.5) |
| 20 | 0 | Siddharth Singh (2375 4.5) | 1 | Graham Horobetz (2320 4.5) |
| 21 | 0 | Gabriel Sam (2324 4.5) | 1 | IM Luis Carlos Torres (2363 4.5) |
| 22 | 1 | Jonathan Sterling Kogen (2300 4.5) | 0 | IM Michael Lee (2409 4.5) |
| 23 | ½ | CM Shawn Xu (2236 4.5) | ½ | FM Brandon Jiang (2200 4.5) |
| 24 | ½ | Jason Cigan (2234 4.5) | ½ | Evan Sammons (2341 4.5) |
| 25 | ½ | FM Zachary Tanenbaum (2420 4.5) | ½ | IM Tamas Petenyi (2332 4.5) |
| 26 | ½ | FM Ochirbat Lkhagvajamts (2405 4.0) | ½ | CM Logan C Shafer (2319 4.5) |
| 27 | 0 | WGM Maili-jade Ouellet (2461 4.0) | 1 | Alexander Jasinski (2268 4.0) |
| 28 | 1 | FM Benjamin Barry Moon (2324 4.0) | 0 | WIM Rachael Li (2382 4.0) |
| 29 | 1 | FM Gabriel Nicholas Petesch (2421 4.0) | 0 | CM Daniel Yang (2256 4.0) |
| 30 | ½ | FM Vaseegaran Nandhakumar (2289 4.0) | ½ | IM Liordis Quesada Vera (2383 4.0) |
| 31 | ½ | Lev Shangin (2320 4.0) | ½ | FM Linxi Zhu (2412 4.0) |
| 32 | 1 | FM William Graif (2358 4.0) | 0 | Guillermo Javier Blanco (2150 4.0) |
| 33 | 1 | Sullivan Mac Mcconnell (2334 4.0) | 0 | Viyaan Krishna Doddapaneni (2152 4.0) |
| 34 | 1 | Dex Webster (2276 3.5) | 0 | Miransh Purven Vyas (2160 4.0) |
| 35 | ½ | GM Nikola Mitkov (2474 3.5) | ½ | Matthew Tikhomirov (2235 3.5) |
| 36 | ½ | Mauro Alberto Lopez (2313 3.5) | ½ | Artemii Khanbutaev (2333 3.5) |
| 37 | 0 | Matthew Yu (2153 3.5) | 1 | FM William Safranek (2368 3.5) |
| 38 | 0 | FM Ted Wang (2337 3.5) | 1 | CM James L Nguyen (2234 3.5) |
| 39 | ½ | Nehanraj Ramesh (2134 3.5) | ½ | CM Chenxuan Ling (2265 3.5) |
| 40 | ½ | Rishi Kolli (2116 3.5) | ½ | Logan J Brain (2254 3.5) |
| 41 | 0 | CM Aiden Linyuan Li (2198 3.5) | 1 | Zachary Pan (2226 3.0) |
| 42 | 1 | Kagan Uz (2360 3.0) | 0 | Luke O Hengen (2182 3.0) |
| 43 | 1 | John Abraham (2255 3.0) | 0 | FM Vivan Prakash Mulay (2207 3.0) |
| 44 | ½ | Ivan Zhou (2209 3.0) | ½ | Lucas Lu (2124 3.0) |
| 45 | 0 | Suyuan Gui (2204 3.0) | 1 | Liam Liu (2137 3.0) |
| 46 | 1 | Jason T Duncan (2189 3.0) | 0 | Sivavishnu Srinivasan (2172 3.0) |
| 47 | ½ | Justin Lee (2145 2.5) | ½ | CM Zhihan Samuel Xu (2150 3.0) |
| 48 | 1 | Jeffrey L Quirke (2204 2.0) | 0 | Pranav Shankar (2132 2.0) |
| 49 | 1 | Gurugrahan Gurumoorthi (2113 2.0) | 0 | Debarghya Das (2148 2.0) |
| 50 | 1 | Joshua Xia (2165 2.0) | 0 | CM Maxwell Z Yang (2173 2.0) |
| 1 | Hiro Michael Higuchi (2065 2.0) | Please wait by yellow pairing sheet | ||
| ½ | FM Avi Harrison Kaplan (2400 4.0) | BYE | ||
| 0 | WIM Chloe Gaw (2275 4.0) | BYE | ||
| ½ | Aaron Yitian Wang (2251 3.5) | BYE | ||
| ½ | CM Sharath Radhakrishnan (2331 4.0) | BYE | ||
| ½ | CM Stella Xin (2200 2.0) | BYE | ||
| 0 | Kanwar Sethi (2126 3.5) | BYE | ||
| ½ | WFM Sophie Li (2105 2.5) | BYE |