Charles Covington and Joshua Topper share first place in 2nd Owings Mills Summer Open.
19 July, 2026. Owings Mills Maryland
Charles Covington and Joshua Topper shared first place in the FIDE-rated Championship section, with scores of 4.0/5.0. Covington also won the Senior prize. Meanwhile, Daniel Rohn, won the upset prize. In the reserve section, Taylor Blackwell won first place with a perfect score. Tom Sevik took home the Senior Prize. In the 1-day U1400 section, Elias Williams won first place going 4.5/5 while David Leedom won 2nd place
The cross-table can be viewed here: https://ratings.uschess.org/event/202607190233
Boards 1 & 2 for every round were broadcast. However, for some of the games there was glitches. Fortunately, all games were correctly recorded locally. Those games were analyzed with ChessBase’s “Tactical Analysis” feature with Stockfish 17.1 and analysis time set to 8-seconds. Those games are at the bottom of this page.
2nd Annual Summer Open. View from Championship section, round 2. Board 1: Charles Covington vs. Franco Alejandrino. Board 2: Danielle Ulrich vs. Joshua Topper.
2nd Annual Summer Open. View from U1400 section, round 2. Board 4: Christopher Ish vs. Patrick Shields
