The U.S. Women's Championship ran concurrently with the Open Championship, but as the former finished in a tie between 15-year-old Annie Wang and 2016 champion Nazi Paikidze, the event carried over to a playoff today. Paikidze trailed in the tournament before squeaking into a playoff, and she lost the first rapid game today. Unfortunately for Wang, she did not have a very good understanding of how to face the King's Indian Attack, and lost to it twice - badly - first in the second rapid game and then in the Armageddon blitz (thus making Paikidze the champion). Wang is improving quickly, however, and if she isn't pulled away from the game by whatever she's doing in academia she might be the favorite to win the title next year and will be a heavy favorite in two years (except perhaps from competition by other female junior players in the U.S.). I've annotated the three games from today's tiebreaker, here.
Also, this was a Bundesliga weekend, and there was action yesterday and today, involving players like Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Peter Svidler (for starters).