Eric Rosen of IL wins the 2009 US Junior Open

On the weekend of June 10th 2009 Eric Rosen competed with 48 other players in the U21 section of the US Junior Open.

Eric, the rating favorite for the section, lived up to expectations and scored 4.5/5 drawing his final round game with Kevin Bu from MN. Eric then won the blitz playoff game and will be seeded into the 2010 US Junior Closed Championship. Eric competed with several other Expert players for the coveted first place prize.

With this performance Eric's rating has gone up to 2185 his highest rating ever. He has been an Expert player since the middle of 2008 and it looks like his rating is going up steadily towards the 2200 Master standard. As well as his US rating, Eric also continues to improve his FIDE World rating, He had a very solid performance at the 21st North American FIDE Invitational scoring 4/9.

We wish Eric well as he continues to improve and hope he will become the newest master player in IL soon.

We also hope to see Eric compete this September at the IL Open for the title of IL State Champion.

Crosstable

Originally published by Jon Burgess 13-July-2009