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The Scoop on the Philly Open |
By US Chess Scoop | |
April 2, 2013 | |
GM and Webster student Fidel Corrales Jiminez and IM and author Daniel Naroditsky tied for first at this year's Philadelphia Open. The co-champs took home over $4500 each in prize money while Naroditsky also picked up a GM norm.
The US Chess Scoop also caught up with the youngest chess master in USCF history, 9-year-old ("pretty close to ten") Awonder Liang while WGM Tatev Abrahamyan talked about preparing for the US Women's Championship.
6740 IM norms were scored by FM Adarsh Jayakumar, FM Jeffery Xiong, FM Arthur Shen and Adithya Balasubramanian. Find full standings and payouts on philadelphiaopen.net and USCF rated results on MSA. Subscribe to the US Chess Federation on Youtube and look for our video coverage later this week and next of SuperNationals V in Nashville. |