Second Filipino to win the US Open Chess Championship
The final co-champ of the 2008 US Open, U.S based IM Enrico Sevillano talks about his triumph at the recently concluded US Open Chess Championship in Dallas, Texas. Sevillano became only the second Filipino to win the prestigious tournament after another US based Filipino FM Paulo del Mundo also wins the tourney with six others last year.
Enrico Sevillano "When I was in the Phillipines I was on the national team, and we all used to study together very seriously: 25 of us including GM Eugenio Torre. I studied with them every day for two years." Read the rest of the interview
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US Open Winners| No. | Year | Location | Champions |
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| 1 | 1900 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Louis Uedemann |
| 2 | 1901 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod |
| 3 | 1902 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Louis Uedemann |
| 4 | 1903 | Chicago, Illinois | Max Judd |
| 5 | 1904 | St. Louis, Missouri | Stasch Mlotkowski |
| 6 | 1905 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Edward F. Schrader |
| 7 | 1906 | Chicago, Illinois | George H. Wolbrecht |
| 8 | 1907 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Einar Michelsen |
| 9 | 1908 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Edward P. Elliot |
| 10 | 1909 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Oscar Chajes |
| 11 | 1910 | Chicago, Illinois | George. H. Wolbrecht |
| 12 | 1911 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Charles Blacke |
| 13 | 1912 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Edward P. Elliot |
| 14 | 1913 | Chicago, Illinois | Bradford B. Jefferson |
| 15 | 1914 | Memphis, Tennessee | Bradford B. Jefferson |
| 16 | 1915 | Excelsior, Minnesota | Jackson Showalter |
| 17 | 1916 | Chicago, Illinois | Edward Lasker |
| 18 | 1917 | Lexington, Kentucky | Edward Lasker |
| 19 | 1918 | Chicago, Illinois | Bora Kostic |
| 20 | 1919 | Cincinnati, Ohio | Edward Lasker |
| 21 | 1920 | Memphis, Tennessee | Edward Lasker |
| 22 | 1921 | Cleveland, Ohio | Edward Lasker |
| 23 | 1922 | Louisville, Kentucky | Samuel Factor |
| 24 | 1923 | San Francisco, California | Stasch Mlotkowski, Norman Whitaker |
| 25 | 1924 | Detroit, Michigan | Carlos Torre |
| 26 | 1925 | Cedar Point, Ohio | Abraham Kupchik |
| 27 | 1926 | Chicago, Illinois | Leon Stolzenberg |
| 28 | 1927 | Kalamazoo, Michigan | Albert Charles Margolis |
| 29 | 1928 | South Bend, Indiana | Leon Stolzenberg |
| 30 | 1929 | St. Louis, Missouri | Herman H. Hahlbohm |
| 31 | 1930 | Chicago, Illinois | Samuel Factor, Norman Whitaker |
| 32 | 1931 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | Samuel Reshevsky |
| 33 | 1932 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Reuben Fine |
| 34 | 1933 | Detroit, Michigan | Reuben Fine |
| 35 | 1934 | Chicago, Illinois | Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky |
| 36 | 1935 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Reuben Fine |
| 37 | 1936 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Israel A. Horowitz |
| 38 | 1937 | Chicago, Illinois | David Polland |
| 39 | 1938 | Boston, Massachusetts | Israel A. Horowitz, Isaac Kashdan |
| 40 | 1939 | New York, New York | Reuben Fine |
| 41 | 1940 | Dallas, Texas | Reuben Fine |
| 42 | 1941 | St. Louis, Missouri | Reuben Fine |
| 43 | 1942 | Dallas, Texas | Herman Steiner, Daniel Yanofsky |
| 44 | 1943 | Syracuse, New York | Israel A. Horowitz |
| 45 | 1944 | Boston, Massachusetts | Samuel Reshevsky |
| 46 | 1945 | Peoria, Illinois | Anthony Santasiere |
| 47 | 1946 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Herman Steiner |
| 48 | 1947 | Corpus Christi, Texas | Isaac Kashdan |
| 49 | 1948 | Baltimore, Maryland | Weaver W. Adams |
| 50 | 1949 | Omaha, Nebraska | Albert Sandrin Jr. |
| 51 | 1950 | Detroit, Michigan | Arthur Bisguier |
| 52 | 1951 | Fort Worth, Texas | Larry Evans |
| 53 | 1952 | Tampa, Florida | Larry Evans |
| 54 | 1953 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Donald Byrne |
| 55 | 1954 | New Orleans, Louisiana | Larry Evans |
| 56 | 1955 | Long Beach, California | Nicolas Rossolimo |
| 57 | 1956 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Arthur Bisguier |
| 58 | 1957 | Cleveland, Ohio | Bobby Fischer |
| 59 | 1958 | Rochester, Minnesota | E. Cobo Arteaga |
| 60 | 1959 | Omaha, Nebraska | Arthur Bisguier |
| 61 | 1960 | St. Louis, Missouri | Robert Byrne |
| 62 | 1961 | San Francisco, California | Pal Benko |
| 63 | 1962 | San Antonio, Texas | Antonio Medina Garcia |
| 64 | 1963 | Chicago, Illinois | William Lombardy |
| 65 | 1964 | Boston, Massachusetts | Pal Benko |
| 66 | 1965 | Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico | Pal Benko, William Lombardy |
| 67 | 1966 | Seattle, Washington | Pal Benko, Robert Byrne |
| 68 | 1967 | Atlanta, Georgia | Pal Benko |
| 69 | 1968 | Aspen, Colorado | Bent Larsen |
| 70 | 1969 | Lincoln, Nebraska | Pal Benko, Arthur Bisguier, Milan Vukcevich |
| 71 | 1970 | Boston, Massachusetts | Bent Larsen |
| 72 | 1971 | Ventura, California | Walter Browne, Larry Evans |
| 73 | 1972 | Atlantic City, New Jersey | Walter Browne |
| 74 | 1973 | Chicago, Illinois | Norman Weinstein |
| 75 | 1974 | New York, New York | Pal Benko, Vlastimil Hort |
| 76 | 1975 | Lincoln, Nebraska | Pal Benko, William Lombardy |
| 77 | 1976 | Fairfax, Virginia | Anatoly Lein, Leonid Shamkovich |
| 78 | 1977 | Columbus, Ohio | Leonid Shamkovich, Andy Soltis, Timothy Taylor |
| 79 | 1978 | Phoenix, Arizona | Joseph Bradford |
| 80 | 1979 | Chicago, Illinois | Florin Gheorghiu |
| 81 | 1980 | Atlanta, Georgia | John Fedorowicz, Florin Gheorghiu |
| 82 | 1981 | Palo Alto, California | Florin Gheorghiu, Larry Christiansen, Jeremy Silman,
Nick de Firmian, John Meyer |
| 83 | 1982 | St. Paul, Minnesota | Andrew Soltis, William Martz |
| 84 | 1983 | Pasadena, California | Larry Christiansen, Viktor Korchnoi |
| 85 | 1984 | Ft. Worth, Texas | Roman Dzindzichashvili, Sergey Kudrin |
| 86 | 1985 | Hollywood, Florida | Yasser Seirawan, Boris Spassky, Joel Benjamin |
| 87 | 1986 | Somerset, New Jersey | Larry Christiansen |
| 88 | 1987 | Portland, Oregon | Lev Alburt |
| 89 | 1988 | Boston, Massachusetts | Dmitry Gurevich |
| 90 | 1989 | Chicago, Illinois | Lev Alburt |
| 91 | 1990 | Jacksonville, Florida | Yasser Seirawan |
| 92 | 1991 | Los Angeles, California | Michael Rohde, Vladimir Akopian |
| 93 | 1992 | Dearborn, Michigan | Gregory Kaidanov |
| 94 | 1993 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Alexander Shabalov |
| 95 | 1994 | Chicago, Illinois | Georgi Orlov, Dmitry Gurevich, Ben Finegold,
Smbat Lputian, Leo Kaushansky, Albert Chow |
| 96 | 1995 | Concord, California | Alex Yermolinsky |
| 97 | 1996 | Alexandria, Virginia | Gabriel Schwartzman |
| 98 | 1997 | Orlando, Florida | Alex Yermolinsky |
| 99 | 1998 | Kailua-Kona, Hawaii | Judit Polgar, Boris Gulko |
| 100 | 1999 | Reno, Nevada | Alex Yermolinsky, Alexander Goldin, Eduardas Rozentalis,
Alexander Shabalov, Gabriel Schwartzman, Michael Mulyar |
| 101 | 2000 | St. Paul, Minnesota | Alex Yermolinsky |
| 102 | 2001 | Framingham, Massachusetts | Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, Joel Benjamin,
Alexander Stripunsky, Fabian Doettling |
| 103 | 2002 | Cherry Hill, New Jersey | Gennady Zaitchik, Evgeniy Najer |
| 104 | 2003 | Los Angeles, California | Alexander Shabalov |
| 105 | 2004 | Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Alexander Onischuk, Rodrigo Vasquez, Aleksander Wojtkiewicz,
Ildar Ibragimov, Andranik Matikozyan, Renier Gonzalez, Marcel Martinez |
| 106 | 2005 | Phoenix, Arizona | Vadim Milov, Joel Benjamin |
| 107 | 2006 | Oak Brook, Illinois | Yury Shulman |
| 108 | 2007 | Cherry Hill, New Jersey | Boris Gulko, Sergey Kudrin, Benjamin Finegold, Alexander Shabalov,
Michael A. Rohde, Michael A. Mulyar, Anton P. Del Mundo |
| 109 | 2008 | Dallas, Texas | Alexander Shabalov, Rade Milovanovic, Enrico Sevillano |
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