Southern California Chess Federation

The 2001 Invitational Championship is finished; all 28 games from the 7-round event are available here in PGN text format, as provided by IM Jack Peters. The winner and new champion is Levon Altounian who scored 5-2, and was the only undefeated player. Lakdawala comes in 2nd on tie-break points.

Here is the cross table, as supplied by John Hillery.

Southern California Invitational Championship
July 14-22, 2001
Los Angeles, CA

Final Standings
                            1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	
1 Altounian, Levon     2441 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½  5.0/7
2 Lakdawala, Cyrus     2438 0 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1  4.5/7 13.75
3 Akobian, Varuzhan    2442 ½ 0	* ½ 1 1 ½ 1  4.5/7 13.50
4 Peters, Jack         2462 ½ ½	½ * 0 1 1 ½  4.0/7
5 Matikozyan, Andranik 2406 0 ½	0 1 * ½ ½ 1  3.5/7
6 Khachian, Melikset   2480 ½ 0	0 0 ½ * 1 1  3.0/7
7 Hermansen, Ron       2165 0 ½	½ 0 ½ 0 * ½  2.0/7
8 Yee, Karl            2297 ½ 0	0 ½ 0 0 ½ *  1.5/7

Average elo: 2391
Category: 6