The 31st World Open
took place in Philadelphia June 28th - July 6th.
$180,000 guaranteed prizes.
The participants: Alexander Onischuk 2644 USA,
Jaan Ehlvest 2600 EST, Boris Gulko 2597 USA,
Alex Yermolinsky 2592 USA, Sarunas Sulskis 2576 LTU,
Larry Christiansen USA 2559, Roland Schmaltz 2546 GER,
Ivan Morovic 2546 CHI, Alex Stripunsky 2546 USA, Sergey Kudrin 2541 USA,
Benjamin Finegold 2535 USA, Darmen Sadvakasov 2534 KAZ,
Nazar Firman 2511 UKR and others.
Final standings of the leaders:
1 Ilya Smirin 2656 ISR
2 Alexander Onischuk 2657 USA 7.0
3 Leonid Yudasin 2558 ISR 7.0
4 Jaan Ehlvest 2600 EST 7.0
5 Alexander Goldin 2608 USA 7.0
6 Alexander Shabalov 2575 USA 7.0
7 Alex Wojtkiewicz 2543 USA 7.0
8 Gennadi Zaitshik 2491 USA 7.0
9 Nazar Firman 2513 UKR 7.0
10 Babakouly Annakov 2514 TKM 7.0
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