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Veteran's Day Open, Nov 7-9, 1997We had 16 players play in this tournament. We had three masters, three experts, six As, two Bs, one C, and one D for an average of 1900.We had a guest from California. He was Dr. Steven Holtz who is a neurologist. He was here to give some lectures on his field of medicine. We had one upset in round one. John Brown 1900 upset a 2218 master. In round two Laymond McGauhey 1729 upset a 1954 A player. In round three Laymond McGauhey 1729 upset a 1888 A player. When computers became stronger players did not want to play them. Now I am hearing that people don't want to play the red-heads because they have become strong. In round four John Brown drew with a 2210 master. This was his second upset of a master in this tournament. In round five the TD had to make a God awful pairing: Laymond McGauhey vs Princess McGauhey. No matter how hard the TD tried he could not make any switches. The prize winners for this tournament were: Open First: Dennis Marrero 2364. Open 2nd: Jorge Barrios 2210. Under 2000: New to Las Vegas, Lorin Miesse 1886. Under 1850: first: the upset King red-head, Laymond McGauhey 1729. STANDINGS Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT 1 MARRERO, DENIS..............2364 W 7 W 9 D 2 W 5 W 4 4.5 2 BARRIOS, JORGE..............2210 W 3 W 11 D 1 D 4 W 9 4.0 3 MIESSE, LORIN...............1886 L 2 H--- W 16 W 9 W 11 3.5 4 BROWN, JOHN.................1900 W 8 W 12 D 10 D 2 L 1 3.0 5 MC GAUHEY, LAYMON P ........1729 L 10 W 7 W 12 L 1 W 14 3.0 6 MC GAUHEY, SNAPPER..........2000 U--- H--- H--- H--- W 16 2.5 7 TRIVETT, JOHN...............1954 L 1 L 5 H--- B--- W 12 2.5 8 WALSH, PETER C..............2217 L 4 W 16 W 14 H--- U--- 2.0 9 BIDARI, GLENN...............2147 W 16 L 1 W 11 L 3 L 2 2.0 10 LANDERS, MIKE...............2065 W 5 H--- D 4 U--- U--- 2.0 11 DE PIERRE, VINCENT..........1989 W 13 L 2 L 9 W 14 L 3 2.0 12 BALDWIN, JOHN...............1888 H--- L 4 L 5 W 15 L 7 1.5 13 HORNE, KENNETH..............1699 L 11 U--- U--- D 16 B--- 1.5 14 MC GAUHEY, PRINCESS M ......1560 H--- W 15 L 8 L 11 L 5 1.5 15 HOLTZ, STEVEN...............1051 H--- L 14 U--- L 12 H--- 1.0 16 CURRELL, JOHN...............1807 L 9 L 8 L 3 D 13 L 6 0.5Report by Ken Horne |