The Illinois Chess Association is happy to congratulate Patick Cohen from Greater Peoria Chess Foundation for running our eighth ICA tour event for 2025. The event was held on August 8, 2025. This tournament was held in Peoria, Illinois.

The tournament had one section with 12 participants.  The tournament consisted of four rounds of game 80 with a 5 second delay.

 

 

Courtesy of Greater Peoria Chess Foundation

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We had a very exciting last round with David Long and Manoj Rudraboina tied with 2.5 points. Manoj requested a half point bye to finish with 3 points. There were 4 players with two points. They were Kamran Jaffer, Donald Dean Egan, Jad Arab and Andres Luca Maldonado. In the final pairings David defeated Andres to become the outright winner with 3.5 points. Kamran defeated Jad Ara, Donald defeated Matthew Hollaway who went into the last round with 1.5 points.

Here are the final standings

 

 

 

Linked here is the US rating report. Following these links, you can view the full results instead of the abbreviated standings above. Linked here are the 2025 Illinois Chess Tour Prizes. Here is a list of all 2025 Illinois Chess Association Tour Schedule. Once again, we are happy to congratulate everybody who participated and gave it their best in this tournament and to congratulate Patrick Cohen for running the tournament so smoothly.