Southern California Open Winners

*Year*	*Location*	*Players*
1979	West Covina	35?	Jeff Long	5½-½
1980	Los Angeles	200+	Doug Root, Perry Youngworth	5½-½
1981	Los Angeles	189	Kamran Shirazi	6-0
1982	Anaheim	281	Doug Root, James Tarjan	5½-½
1983	Los Angeles	168	Kamran Shirazi	5½-½
1984	Los Angeles	185	Kamran Shirazi	6-0
1985	Pasadena	248	Kamran Shirazi	5½-½
1986	San Diego	258	Dan Durham, Larry Remlinger	5½-½
1987	Commerce	241	Victor Frias (New York)	5½-½
			(but title to Doug Root at 5-1 on tiebreak over five others)
1988	Long Beach	201	Walter Browne, Kamran Shirazi	5½-½
			(Browne ineligible for title)
1989	Commerce	193	Jack Peters	6-0
1990	Commerce	261	Igor Ivanov	5½-½
			(on tiebreak over Jack Peters and Doug Root)
1991	San Diego	159	Jack Peters	5½-½
1992	La Mirada	134	Wageeh Boctor	5½-½
1993	Long Beach	190	Jack Peters, Cris Ramayrat	5½-½
1994	Buena Park	192	Jack Peters, Larry Remlinger	5½-½
1995	Buena Park	157	Cyrus Lakdawala, Jack Peters	5½-½
1996	Commerce	105	Jack Peters	5½-½
1997	San Marcos	94	Mladen Vucic	5-1
1998	Los Angeles	145	Jayson Gonzalez (Philippines)	5½-½
			(title to Armen Ambartsoumian, 5-1)
1999	Los Angeles	251	Jaan Ehlvest, Alexander Shabalov, Alek Wojtkiewicz	5½-1½
			(co-champion titles to Levon Altounian and Armen Ambartsoumian at 5-1)
2000	Los Angeles	118	Levon Altounian	5-1
			(Norik Kalantaryan and Nick Schoonmaker also 5-1 but ineligible)
2001	San Diego	191	Levon Altounian	5-1
2002	Los Angeles	192	Andranik Matikozyan	5-1
			(on tiebreak over Jesse Kraai, Tatev Abrahamyan, Pieta Garrett, Jack Peters, Roger Norman)
2003	San Diego	126	Enrico Sevillano	5-1
			(title to Melikset Khachiyan, 4½-1½)
2004	Burbank	152	Amir Bagheri, Melikset Khachiyan, Jack Peters	5-1
			(Title to Melikset Khachiyan on tiebreak)
2005	Los Angeles	145	Enrico Sevillano	5½-½