Atlantic Chess News Setiembre 2007 | Page 8

Although GM Alexander Stripunsky from New York took clear 1st Place scoring 5/6 in the Open section of this year’s New Jersey Open, the 8-way tie for the title of top New Jersey player included the following players scoring 4½/6: IM Anatoly Volovich (winning the title on tiebreaks), FM Thomas J. Bartell, IM Mikhail Zlotnikov, FM Ilye Figler, IM Edward William Formanek, Victor C. Shen, & Jayson Lian. You may reference the crosstable below to see all of the participants in this section. And in the U1900 section we have the following final crosstable. 8