1998 World Open, Philadelphia, June 27-July 5th.
Games from the World Open are in "lib worldopen98", "lib worldopen98-2", "lib worldopen98-3", "lib worldopen98-4" and "lib worldopen98-5"
World Open Final Results (Open Section, prizes are unofficial):
8.5 (1) ($14000) Goldin, 7.5 (2) ($7000) Smirin, 7.0 (3-9) ($1443 each) Wojtkiewicz Epishin Christiansen Atalik D.Gurevich Stripunsky Hernandez,
6.5 (10-19) ($317 each) Kaidanov Yermolinsky Blatny Chernin Fedorowicz Kreiman (next four get $1050 each for 2350-2499 prize) Ashley Young Delaune Belakovskaya,
6.0 (20-38) ($135 each) Shabalov Gulko Kudrin A.Ivanov Blocker Waitzkin Bonin Lein Perelshteyn Byrne Ardaman Edelman Ariel Watson G.Shahade Morrison MacIntyre (next two get $1500 each for 2250-2349 prize) Fang Rajlich,
5.5 Sherzer Shaked Van.de.Mortel Krush (next two get $1050 each for U2250 prize) Ruiz J.Shahade Yakobashvili, 5.0 Charbonneau Zaremba Khan Andrews B.Johnson 4.5 Tate A.Friedman Shivaji Hoekstra Zerm Miller,
4.0 Ippolito Dean Boor A.Traldi, 3.5 Cavallo Kahane, 3.0 Ashton, 2.5 J.Fernandez.