Chicagoans at the Philadelphia Open

Jon Burgess notes that IM Angelo Young is playing Kamsky on Board 1 right now!

Fifteen-year-old NM Adarsh Jayakumar (soon to be moving back to Chicagoland from Texas) beat GM Eugene Perelshteyn in Round 2 earlier today.

In the same round, NM William Aramil nicked GM Alexander Ivanov for half a point earlier today (hardly an upset, however):

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