2013 Las Vegas International Chess Festival

The Open attracts a lot of talent from around the country and the world because of the possibility of taking clear first place and the $10,000 top prize.  What usually happens, though, is a whole lot of players split prizes because they finish "tied."  That happened this year; Tatev Abrahamyan was the highest-finishing female player, tying with players 12 through 22 with 4.0.  From the score, it looks like Tatev played her usually uncompromising fighting chess, scoring 4 wins and 2 losses! 

Here is the top finisher (GM Wesley So) and the femmes whose names I was able to pick out from the Open final standings -- hope I didn't miss anyone!

There were 91 players but as the event went on many of the players at the bottom of the rankings dropped out:

No. Ttl Name                     St  Rate Pts Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5 Rnd6 Prize                         
  1 GM  So,Wesley                CAN 2728   5 W 19 D 26 W  9 W 25 W 12 D  4 $2,175
22 WGM Abrahamyan,Tatev         CA  2407   4 L 26 W 19 W 18 L 14 W 47 W 50 $114  
45 WFM Labedz,Patrycja Anna     TX  2267   3 L 12 W 73 L 31 L 76 W 86 W 71
46 FM  Melekhina,Alisa          PA  2267   3 L  3 W 74 D 29 D 26 L 30 W 72
 55 WFM Chiang,Sarah             TX  2243 2.5  -H- W 52 L 28 L  9 L 61 W 82
71 WIM Gutierrez,Paloma         AZ  2212   2 L 15 L 77 L 52 W 81 W 83 L 45

You can find all of the results for sections here.