GM Andrew Tang wins Philadelphia Open

The Philadelphia International Chess Open took place from 24-26 June at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown which will also host the 50th World Open starting tomorrow.

The event was played in 5 sections: Major, U2100, U1800, U1500, and U1200. GM Andrew Tang triumphed in the Major section, scoring perfect 5/5 points, and pocketing the money prize of 1600$. IM Thomas Bartell, Roger Martin, and Ben Johnson tied for second place, claiming 633.33$ each.

Final rankings – Philadelphia Open 2022:

Rk	Name	Rtng	Pts	Prize
1	GM Andrew Tang	2569	5	1600
2	IM Thomas Bartell	2492	4	633.33
3	Roger Martin	2142	4	633.33
4	Ben Johnson	2117	4	633.33
5	Matthew J O’Brien	2287	3.5	100
6	Alexander J Wang	2174	3.5	100
7	Maxwell Schwartz	2161	3.5	100
8	Kevin Chen	2130	3.5	100
9	Jack Klein	2107	3.5	100
10	Megan Althea Paragua	1945	3.5	100
11	Leonardo Liu	2228	3
12	Saif Shawkat	2120	3
13	Roger Zhang	2097	3
14	Derek Chen	2060	3
15	Ronak Hiwale	2026	3
16	Havish Sripada	2006	3
17	Kameliia Sharuda	1970	3
18	Andrew T Feng	1932	3
19	Roman P Malyshev	2182	2.5
20	Alexander C Hu	2159	2.5
21	Sam Schenk	2116	2.5
22	Brian Pang	2109	2.5
23	Jonas Jakob Raza Rempe	2100	2.5
24	Neil Samant	2070	2.5
25	Bobby Qian	2038	2.5
26	Kevin Wang	2023	2.5
27	Leroy Hill	2012	2.5
28	Aritro Chakravarty	1985	2.5
29	Aditya Arutla	1975	2.5
30	Austin Tang	1953	2.5
31	Jenny Zhu	2012	2
32	Jason Rosenhouse	2007	2
33	Samuel He	1942	2
34	Om Chinchwadkar	1932	2
35	Saharsh Bangaru	1641	2
36	Maximillian Lu	2444	1.5
37	Gurru Muthukumaran	1941	1.5
38	Jeffrey La Comb	1926	1.5
39	Dattasai Kilari	1917	1.5
40	Jimmy Christensen r/e	1906	1.5
41	Nitesh Cherukuri	1896	1.5
42	Gregoire A Marville	2150	1
43	Sounak Bagchi	2103	1
44	Ryan Zhu	1979	1
45	Timothy Ng	1862	1
46	Kannan Vaidyanathan	1769	1
47	WFM Yassamin Ehsani	2143	0.5
48	Arjun Sankar	1736	0.5