IM Florin Felecan & GM Mesgen Amanov tied for first (5-1) at the 2009 Illinois Open, held September 5-7 in Oak Brook. The co-champions drew with each other & with GM Dmitry Gurevich. Gurevich also gave up a draw to IM Angelo Young and finished equal third (4.5-1.5) with Gopal Menon.
The event was smoothly organized & directed by Tim Just & Wayne Clark.
Did someone send reports on the event to Jennifer Shahade?
Yes, I am getting reports, photos and games from all over the country all the material will be rolled out on CLO tonight/tomorrow with some more in-depth stories and further games probably even appearing late in the week.
The first big news was that Larry won the U.S. Senior Open: main.uschess.org/content/view/9692/554/
Thanks to all the readers and again, feel free to send more games or stories from this weekend of chess festivals to jshahade@uschess.org. Jennifer Shahade, CLO editor
Jennifer just posted nice coverage of this & other holiday weekend events
main.uschess.org/content/view/9696/141/
Check out the position after White’s 13th in Gurevich-Auger and see if you can find Black’s !! reply…