The 2017 Cardinal Open was held January 27th-29th at the luxurious Hilton Garden Inn in Mayfield Village, Ohio, a Cleveland area suburb. The top prize was split by Grandmasters Shabalov and Gurevich who tied for First Place with a total of 4.5 points each in the 5 round event. The biggest highlight of the event was the upset defeat of GM Corrales at the hands of Aristo Liu, the teenage Chess prodigy who was also able to score an upset win against current Ohio Champion Mika Brattain and a draw against Jennifer Yu.

2017 Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championships to be held in Columbus

The event will be held December 27-30, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency / Greater Columbus Convention Center.The Pan-Ams are the National Championships of College chess and are always held late December. This past year they were held in New Orleans and had 60 teams with a good portion of the contestants being titled players. This is one of the strongest team tournaments held in the country.

Upcoming Ohio Open Tournaments

2017 Columbus Open

Open Section FIDE Rated!

4 sections and new larger prize structure! Top 50 boards are provided with sets and DGT Clocks (wooden on boards 1-20)... all others are required to bring their own.