GM Aleksander Lenderman Wins Long Island Chess Open

Hello dear Chess Blog friends,

The 8th annual Long Island Chess Open, played March 28-30 at Ramada Inn MacArthur Airport in Holtsville (Suffolk County), was the largest open tournament ever held in New York’s Suffolk or Nassau counties. 202 players competed for a $12,000 guaranteed prize fund, easily surpassing the previous record of 161 set at the 2012 Long Island Open.

The Open Section included four Grandmasters and three International Masters, and the GMs, Aleksander Lenderman, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Ioan Chirila, and Mikheil Kekelidze, showed why they had the four highest USCF ratings in the field, scoring 4-1 to share the top four prizes. They won $750 each, except for Lenderman, who won the title and an additional $100 on tiebreak.

Four players tied for the Under 2300 class prizes: 11-year old New York State JHS Champion David Brodsky (whose rating reached 2200 for the first time), 11-year old WFM Akshita Gorti, 11-year old Aravind Kumar, and 13-year old Zachary Tanenbaum. The Under 2100 Section was won by 14-year old Warren Wang and the Under 1700 saw a 5-0 sweep by 9-year old Erik Brodsky, David’s brother. No, this was not a scholastic tournament!

The Under 1300 Section was won by Timothy Zhigulin and the Under 900 Section by Vicente Quispe. Full results and prizes are available at www.longislandopen.net.

Three teams tied for the mixed doubles prizes, receiving $300 each ($150 per player). Aleksander Lenderman was a winner here too, along with Ella Papenek as they scored 6 ½ out of 10. The other teams with the same score were Sarah Ascherman-Mike Hehir and Evelyn Zhu-Robert Guevara.

The tournament was sponsored by the Continental Chess Association and directed by Bill Goichberg and Harold Stenzel. (USchess.org)

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GM Mikheil Kekelidze wins Long Island Chess Open

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Hi everyone,

The Long Island Open took place on 16-18th March at the Holiday Inn Islip Airport in Ronkonkoma, USA. Grandmasters Mikheil Kekelidze, Tamaz Gelashvili, Sergey Kudrin and Joel Benjamin all finished at the top of the standings in the Open Section with 4 points but Kekelidze managed to take the title and the $100 bonus prize by virtue of the better tie-break.

Going into the final round Kudrin and Benjamin were half-point ahead of their nearest rivals but their draw on board one allowed Kekelidze and Gelashvili to catch them by winning their final round games against Yefim Treger and FM Nathan Resika respectively. Just few weeks ago Kekelidze won the 21st Annual Eastern Class.

Master section final standings:1-4. GM Mikheil Kekelidze ($780.50), GM Tamaz Gelashvili ($680.50), GM Sergey Kudrin ($680.50) and GM Joel Benjamin ($680.50) – 4.0
5-7. Michael H Bodek, Rawle A Allicock (*$302.00) and WGM Sarai Sanchez (*$302.00) – 3.5
8-12. IM Rafael Prasca Sosa, FM Nathan Resika, Tim Mirabile, Yefim Treger, Robert N Guevara (**$504.00) – 3.5 etc

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