Yang and Arnold earn GM norm

Final round results

1	IM Young, Angelo	2321	0-1 GM Margvelashvili, Giorgi	2547
2	IM Gerzhoy, Leonid	2489	1-0 GM Moradiabadi, Elshan	2542
3	GM Finegold, Benjamin	2505	1-0 IM Sevillano, Enrico	2502
4	IM Arnold, Marc T	2502	1/2 IM Molner, Mackenzie	2465
5	IM Brooks, Michael A	2456	0-1 IM Yang, Darwin	2448

Marc Arnold needed to hold against Molner and he did. Yang had to beat Brooks with black and he did. And therefore, both Arnold and Yang earned their first GM norm. Congratulations to both of these very bright young men!

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