Cleveland Open (chess) explained

The Cleveland Open is an annual chess tournament held in Cleveland, Ohio. The tournament was not held from 2004 until 2008, when it was resurrected.[1]

List of Winners

align=left Yearalign=left Winner(s)[2]
1952Lawrence Star
1953Larry Lipking
1954Igor Garais
1955Mike Paruta
1956Jean Cohn
1957Richard Kause
1958Pal Benko
1959William Granger
1960Tom Ellison
1961Tom Wozney
1962Richard Kause
1963Jack Witeczek
1964Richard Kause
1965Richard Kause
1966Richard Kause, Mike Paruta
1967James Harkins, Tom Ellison
1968Don Collins, R Michniak
1969Milan Vukcevich
1970Richard Noel, Tom Wozney
1971Robert Burns Jr.
1972Milan Vukcevich
1973Robert Burns Jr.
1974Calvin Blocker
1975Calvin Blocker
1976Robert Burns Jr.
1977Calvin Blocker
1978Calvin Blocker
1979Tom Wozney, T Hannibal
1980Andrew Zebrowski
1981Alan Federl
1982Dumitru Ghizdavu, Tom Ward
1983Richard Costigan
1984Igor Ivanov, Calvin Blocker
1985Brian Hartman, David Glicksman
1986Dmitry Gurevich
1987Anatoly Lein
1988Calvin Blocker
1989Calvin Blocker
1990Calvin Blocker, S Ramakrishnapillai
1991
1992David Presser, Kenneth Panzel
1993Boris Men
1996Dmitry Berkovich
2000Calvin Blocker
2002Calvin Blocker, Stanislav Kriventsov
2003Stanislav Kriventsov
2008Sergey Erenburg, Nikola Mitkov
2009Alexander Shabalov
2010Mark Paragua, Alexander Shabalov, Iryna Zenyuk
2011Ardash Jayakumar, Atulya Shetty, Iryna Zenyuk
2012Sergey Kudrin, John Miller, Bryan Smith
2013Sergey Kudrin, Gopal Menon, Gabriel Petesch
2014Jay Bonin, Ronald Burnett, Florin Felecan, Walker Griggs, Sergey Kudrin, Gabriel Petesch
2015Jay Bonin[3]
2016
2017Mika Brattain
2018Fidel Corrales Jimenez, Jay Bonin
2019Mika Brattain, Gabriel Petesch
2020 (online)Vladimir Belous, Eigen Wang, Eltaj Safarli
2021Vladimir Belous
2022Joshua Posthuma
2023Safal Bora
2024Bryan G. Smith

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Big Time chess returns to Cleveland. The United States Chess Federation . Jerry . Hanken . www.uschess.org . June 13, 2008 .
  2. Cleveland Chess Bulletin, October 1985 [pgs 8,9]
  3. Web site: Rated Event Search Results . The United States Chess Federation . www.uschess.org .