GM Alexander Ivanov has been keeping busy as usual. Though it has been a whole two years now since he won the Mass Open title, he’s racked up his fair share of tournament wins elsewhere, claiming the 2016 Hartford Open, the 2016 Reno Western States Open (in which he scored a minor upset over Aleksandr Lenderman), Boylston Chess Foundation Fall FIDE Festival, and the 2017 Land of the Sky tournament in North Carolina in the past year.