6th Best Western Mt

8th Northern Virginia Open

DETAILS
Nov 3-4, 2001
Best Western Mt. Vernon - Alexandria
$1,800 B/60 Adult, Top 3 G - 500-300-200
20 Point Grand Prix
6-SS Game/2
Sat 10-230-7
Sun 10-230-7
$$$$$$$$
500-300-200 (G)
Exp/A/B/C/D/U1200-$120
Unr - $80

EF $45 Advance by 10/26, $55 at site
scholastic $20/25

Send Entries to:
Michael Atkins
PO Box 6139
Alexandria, VA 22306

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Best Western Mt. Vernon Hotel, 8751 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, VA 22309
Fish Photo Caption
IM Enrico Sevillano scored 5.5 to take clear first out of the 73 people who played this weekend. Closely following him at 5-1 were IM Larry Kaufman, FM Boris Privman and NM Yevgeniy Gershov. Paul Yavari was Top Expert with 4.5. Class A was split four ways at 4-2 among David Slack, Chris Sevilla, Thomas Rehle and Josh Specht. Class B was split at 4-2 among Andrew Samuelson and David Paulina. At 3.5, Frank Huber and Kebadu Belachew took Class C. With 3-3, winners were Wilfredo Acevedo (Class D) and Chukwuma Obi (Unrated). There was no Under 1200 prize as all the players were either Scholastic or withdrew, but the two Hollingsworth brothers, Tyler and Alec with 2.5 earned books. Top Scholastic ,winning a clock, was John Rouleau with 4-2.

Sevillano led from start to finish, only giving up a draw to fellow IM Adrian Negulescu. Sevillano had to defeat the always super-tough FM Emory Tate in the final round to ensure his victory. Andrew Samuelson, one of the winners of the Class B prize had quite a tournament. He was 3-0 at the half, drew with Boris Privman in Rd 4, lost to Tate in Round 5 and drew with Israeli FIDE expert Peter Gukhvat in the last round. Rated 1798, Samuelson had a FIDE ratable performance around 2240! "D" winner Wilfredo Acevedo had the best rating performance, gaining over 130 points and the biggest upset of the weekend was Tyler Hollingsworth's (937) defeat of Daniel Cook (1566).

Click here for final results -- Here are 28 games from the event!

It was a nice weekend, 73 players filled the attractive room at the Best Wester

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