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🏆 Philadelphia Open (2010)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Gata Kamsky, Sam Shankland, Ray Robson, Varuzhan Akobian, Alexander Shabalov, Jaan Ehlvest, Nick de Firmian, Mark Paragua, Sergey Kudrin, Alexander Ivanov, Alexander Stripunsky, Alonso Zapata, Joshua E Friedel, Jake Kleiman, Mikheil Kekelidze, Robert Andrew Hungaski, Vladimir Romanenko, Amon Simutowe, John Bartholomew, Angelo Young, Siddharth Ravichandran, Yury Lapshun, Jay Bonin, Justin Sarkar, Arthur Shen, Thomas J Bartell, Emory Tate, Erik F Santarius, Mladen Vucic, Ilye Figler, Andrew Karklins, Mauricio Uribe, Christopher Wu, Alec S Getz, David A Hua, Michael Langer, Shinsaku Uesugi, Dov Gorman, Iryna Zenyuk, Oladapo Olutola Adu, Alexander Solomon Barnett, Ravshan Khamroev, William J Aramil, Michael Thaler, Luis Manuel Belliard Alonzo, Paul Vianna, Vadim Kudryavtsev, Sohrab Samimi, Kenneth Holroyd, Stephen Sandager, Stuart Finney, Julian M Chan, Manuel Valerio Nieto, Andrew Ding, Mike Lucente, Segev Weiss, Darrian Robinson, George Tom, Andre Harding, Peter Hess, E Rodriguez

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Philadelphia Open (2010)

Kamsky, Robson, Stripunsky and Kudrin split a little over ~$3400 apiece (+ a slight bonus to Kamsky) and tie-breaks of 1st-4th for their efforts of scoring 7/9 total points each.

Website: http://chessevents.com/2010/04/phil... (leaderboard), http://www.philadelphiaopen.net/phi... (source pgn file with 78 total games).

 page 4 of 4; games 76-77 of 77  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
76. A Stripunsky vs Robson  ½-½422010Philadelphia OpenB50 Sicilian
77. Kamsky vs Shabalov ½-½482010Philadelphia OpenA48 King's Indian
 page 4 of 4; games 76-77 of 77  PGN Download
  REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)  

Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-09-10  Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!! Philidelphia Open!!!

goodjob by Kamsky.

Apr-09-10  laskersteinitz: Kamsky will play the loser of the Anand-Topalov match in the first round of the next Candidates tournament. He needs to stay on top of his game as much as possible. Winning tournaments like these is expected, but still quite impressive and a good omen.
Apr-09-10  laskersteinitz: A heartfelt thank you to Chessgames.com for posting this tournament!
Apr-09-10  HowDoesTheHorsieMove: A news report from the Philippines states that Kamsky edged out Robson, Stripunsky and Kudrin on tie-break points.
Apr-09-10  laskersteinitz: That's correct. It's not clear what tie-break system was used though. (http://www.philadelphiaopen.net/)
Apr-13-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Philadelphia Open (USA) 31 March - 4 April 2010, final ranking crosstable:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr322...

Apr-14-10  mikejaqua: Actually this looked like a rather poor performance by Kamsky. Four draws in 9 games, against opponents rated more than 100 point lower than him? Not impressive. His Rp was 2663 if I read it right. That's not gonna get him anywhere against Anand or Topa.
Apr-14-10  waustad: If it was SB, it might make a big difference where he started and when the first draws were. Robson started as the 5th rated and drew a his first game one round earlier, so Kamsky did a little better on tiebreaks by playing opponents who were ranked a little higher at several points during the tournament.

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