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16th Annual Chicago Open 2007

May 25-28, 2007
Oak Brook, Illinois, USA

Organized by the Continental Chess Association

The Chicago Open tournaments were all 7 round Swiss events with a total prize fund of $100,000 unconditionally guaranteed!  The games took place over the Memorial Day weekend in Oak Brook (near Chicago), Illinois.
 

Photograph Gallery Please check out this Photograph Gallery from the Chicago Open by Chess Life Online photographer Betsy Dynako. Final Results Grandmaster Vadim Milov beat Grandmaster Yury Shulman in the Armageddon playoff match at the end of a late evening in Oak Brook to claim the title of Chicago Open Champion 2007. Both players finished top of the standings with 6 points in a tie for first place, with both players drawing their last round games and drawing with each other in round 5. Grandmasters Merab Gagunashvili, Zviad Izoria, Sergey Erenburg and Valeriy Aveskulov finished in 3rd-6th, all scoring 5½. Final Standings for all sections have now been posted! The blitz playoff between the two winners.  This is at the end when Yury realized it was all over. (©Photo Betsy Dynako)	Grandmaster Vadim Milov (©Photo Betsy Dynako)	Grandmaster Yury Shulman (©Photo Betsy Dynako)

Grandmaster Gallery

Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian	Grandmaster Emil Anka	Grandmaster Valeriy Aveskulov	Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest
Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg	Grandmaster Alex Fishbein	Grandmaster Merab Gagunashvili	Grandmaster Dmitry Gurevich
Grandmaster Zviad Izoria	Grandmaster Anatoly Lein	Grandmaster Vadim Milov	Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez
Grandmaster Alex Shabalov	Grandmaster Dashze Sharavdorj	Grandmaster Yury Shulman	Grandmaster Ilya Smirin