2019 Bay Area International /r5
Quick 1-Minute Summary

After 5 rounds of this strong 9 round Open not less than 10 players (!) are tied for first with 4 points. The competition is fierce, with numerous upsets and surprises.
Top-50 Standings

Canadian IM Shiyam Thavandiran is struggling a bit in 47th position, 1.5 points back from the lead. However, to be fair his competition has been very tough and he has been a bit unlucky, and there are still 4 rounds left to recover!
The other Canadian participant, IM Leon Piasetski has 2 points so far.
Images taken by David Llada
12 year old Yoo, who has already defeated a 2700 gm! Alpha Blue? fm Shankar gm Bruzon gm Naroditsky gm Ramirez gm Anthony Saidy gm Sevan gm Stupokin gm James Tarjan gm Xiong Jack Zhu deeply concentrated relaxing Mishra concentrating Youngster Polavaran
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