77th Annual Southwest OpenSeptember 2 or 3 - 5, Dallas

179 total players

Final standings here

USCF Results here

Open

GM Sadorra, Julio won clear first with 6.0/7.0

19 year old Polish WFM Labedz, Patrycja had an incredible result going 5-2, she beat 2 NMs and 2 GMs.  Her provisional USCF rating went from 2126 to 2387. She lost this 7th round game to the tournament winner GM Sadorra, Julio 

Patrycja has a  Wikipedia page (in Polish)

Click here for the game

There were 10 players(from 8 federations) rated over 2500!

1. 2631 Yotov, Valentin (BUL) #7 in Bulgaria
2. 2573 Bercys, Salvijus (USA) #64
3. 2561 Sadorra, Julio C (PHI) #12 in Philippines
4. 2554 Chirila, Ioan (ROU) #11 in Romania
5. 2552 Boros, Denes (HUN) #30 in Hungary
6. 2536 Holt, Conrad (USA) #70
7. 2536 Pavlovic, Milos M (SRB) #15 in Serbia
8. 2524 Diamant, Andre (BRA) #6 in Brazil
9. 2518 Wang, Puchen (NZL) #2 in New Zealand
10. 2504 Yang, Darwin (USA) #100

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Reserve

Guerra, Anthony won clear first with 6.0/7.0 (He is playing black in the last round)

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My results

I tied for 2nd with 2 others. My rating went from 1921 to 1942

1. Win Metpally, Jason (1625)
2. Draw Kotta, Venkat (1783)
3. Win Kaliyur, Rohith (1712)
4. Win Nguyen, Anthony (1883)
5. Draw Su, Dion (2008)
6. Draw Clark, Mike (1689)
7. Win Prabhakaran, Karthik (1857) 

My record for the last 3 SWOs is  12-1=7

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