The U.S. Open is one of America’s most prestigious events, and tomorrow we’ll have our winner! With seven players tied for first, this tournament which hasn’t seen any player take the sole lead at any point will still be wide open going into the final round.
“One tournament, three schedules” is finally ready to become, simply, “one tournament.” After six days at Grand Rapids, the “traditional” schedule is ready to welcome the accelerated six-day and hyper-accelerated four-day players to their one-game-a-day way of life. In anticipation of the final three rounds, today’s annotations come from award-winning Chess Life columnist WGM Tatev Abrahamyan.
ROCHESTER, Minn.-Jackson Wahl, a US chess national master who competed in the Rochester Chess Open, has some advice for you in case you decide to participate in a chess tournament.