The 1999 Southern California State Invitational Championship was played over the weekends of July 10-11 and 17-18. The tournament was held at Oscar Maldonado's California Chess Club located at 11610 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064. This was a 7 round, FIDE rated event, and was directed for the SCCF by NTD John Hillery. The 2 co-champions will be seeded into next years championship. The games are available in PGN text format.


Charles VanBuskirk    X  ½  ½  ½  1  1  1  ½   5-2  [trophy winner on tie-breaks]
Jack Peters           ½  X  ½  ½  ½  1  1  1   5-2
Levon Altounian       ½  ½  X  ½  ½  1  ½  1   4½-2½
Armen Ambartsoumian   ½  ½  ½  X  0  1  1  1   4½-2½
Cyrus Lakdawala       0  ½  ½  1  X  0  1  1   4-3
Harutyun Akopyan      0  0  0  0  1  X  0  1   2-5
Karl Yee              0  0  ½  0  0  1  X  0   1½-5½
Daniel Lee            ½  0  0  0  0  0  1  X   1½-5½
Lakdawala, Peters and Altounian were seeded into the 1999 championship by virtue of tying for 1st place in the 1998 Championship.

Southern California Chess Federation