GM Michael Adams, Photo Betsy Dynako
On Tuesday, the tournament's top seed English GM Michael Adams gave a 20 board simul. The average rating of the participants was about 2000. Adams scored 14 wins, 1 loss to Dean Arvidson and five draws with NM Samuel Sevain, NM Kayden Troff, Varun Krishnan, Agata Bykovtsev and Larry S. Smith.
Michael Adams vs. Samuel Sevian Photo Betsy Dynako
There was also a pre-tournament dinner celebration with several of the top players.
A pre-event toast, Photo Betsy Dynako
GM Alejandro Ramirez, Moira Kamgar and Elliott Liu, Photo Betsy Dynako
See a preview video of the event from Ice Hat Creative, which includes interviews with Adams, GM Loek Van Wely, local GM Melikset Khachiyan and USCF's Organizer of the Year Ankit Gupta.
1st Metropolitan International Chess Tournament Preview from Ice Hat Creative on Vimeo.
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