WORLD OPEN
A Mega Open Tournament organized by Goichberg and his team mainly in Philadelphia since 1972. The prize fund was from $15,000 to 52,000 in 1980 and up to $ 300,000 in 2011.
The winners were: 1973 Browne, 1974 Larsen, 1975 Benko and Trefler, 1976 Lein and Zuckerman, 1977 Fedorowicz, Henley, 1978 Biyiasas, Gheorghiu, Zuckerman, Westerinen, Seirawan, Sanz, and Asmundsson, 1979, Miles, Gheorghiu, Browne, Bisguier, Zuckerman, Angantysson and Fedorowicz, 1980 Dzindzichashvili, Christiansen, Miles, Gheorghiu and Day, 1981 I. Ivanov, D. Gurevich, Benjamin and Rohde, 1982 de Firmian, Fedorowicz, D. Gurevich, and Meyer, 1983 Spraggett, Quinteros, Shirazi, Bass, and Zaltsman, 1984 Benjamin, 1985 Dlugy, D. Gurevich, 1986 de Firmian, 1987 Gulko and Miles, 1988 Dlugy, 1989 M. Gurevich, Chernin, Rohde, Browne, Alburt, Christiansen, Fedorowicz, A. Ivanov, G. Garcia, and Epishin, 1990 Glek, 1991 Kamsky, Yermolinsky, Hjartarsson, and Palatnik, 1992 Kaidanov, 1993 Yermolinsky, 1994 Minasian, 1995 Yermolinsky, 1996 Yermolinsky, 1997, Shabalov, 1998 Goldin, 1999 Serper, 2000 Benjamin, Ehlvest, Kudrin, Serper, A. Ivanov, Blatny, Fedorowicz, and Goldin, 2001 Goldin, Smirin, Onischuyk, Yudasin, Shulman, Benjamin, A. Ivanov, 2002 Miton, Smirin, Onischuk, Yusupov, Ehlvest, Wojtkiewicz, Finegold, Rowson, Akobian, 2003 Elhvest, 2004 Akobian, 2005 Miton, 2006 Kamsky, 2007 Akobian, 2008 Najer, 2009 Najer and Nakamura 2010 Laznicka, 2011 Kamsky and Adams, 2012 Ivan Sokolov, 2013 Akobian 2014 Smirin, 2015 Lenderman, 2016 Papp, 2017 T. Petrosian, 2018 Illya Nyzhnyk, 2019 Lê Quang Liêm and Jeffery Xiong .
