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On his hunt for the GM title, Daniel Ludwig played at this at-home event and picked up over $700 for the weekend. His brother John played in the Under 1800 section and won half of the Under 1400 prize. But while Daniel only picked up 1 rating point, John gained about 140 as his rating attempts to keep up with his strength.

Daniel won the $100 1st place prize after his draw with Bob Persante gave him 6½-½ and a point ahead. John finished with just 1½ points, but enough to receive the Under 1400 prize of $38.

Toby Boas draws with IM Kirill Kuderinov in the last round to tie with the IM and Haskel. Haskel had previously drawn with the IM, but it wasn't till the very last game (Peter Dyson vs Jeremy Mandelkern) was completed did the tiebreak "flip" to Haskel's favor when Dyson pulled-out a win in a long endgame.

Toby Boas and Adam Miller draw their third round game and tie for 1st.

Adam had to beat Life Master Mike Petersen in the last round to take the event, but the bonus was out of his grasp as he had drawn Toby Boas in the 2nd round.

Daniel Ludwig goes to Hungary with low expectations, returns with GM norm in hand!

Daniel in Budapest

Gil Luna, captain of last year's U. S. Amateur Team South winners that eventually won the national playoff, put together another team for this year's USATS in Orlando by combining 3 players from Miami and then searching the list of rated Florida players to choose one from central Florida. This team won their first 4 matches and then lost in the last round, but won the title on tiebreaks. For full team results

You may wonder... "What's so surprising about that!". ... well, see the rest of the story.

Tied for 1st: Larry Storch and Daniel Ludwig.  Tiebreaks came down to the very last game