| 13th Lugano Open :: Lugano 1988 |
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Sources: lu88r9.zip; Chess Informant 45 p.401; Jaque 238 p.199; Skakbladet 1988/05 p.107. Dollar statistics ADD ONLY missing data to PGN, never full totals. Known final scores are completed by differences; other scores are partial PGN totals. Blank statistics are unknown. Players sorted by final score where known, otherwise partial score. The Hauptturnier (190 players, 8 rounds) is separate.
| 13th Lugano Open | |
| Dates: | 4th - 12th March 1988 |
| City: | Lugano (Switzerland) |
| Venue: | Palazzo dei Congressi |
| Organizers: | |
| Sponsored by: | Banca del Gottardo |
| Chief Arbiter: | Daniel Weber |
| Players participating: | 222 (incl. 24 GMs, 36 IMs, 2 WGMs, 24 FMs, 1 WIM) |
| Games played: | ~999 |
| Competition format: | Nine round Swiss |
| Tie-breaks: | 1. Buchholz |
| Time control: | |
| Missing data: | Incomplete source coverage: 222 participants; 145 identified entries, 229 games; 30 games with unknown round, 12 unresolved results. Some newspaper surnames require verification; see lugano-1988-report.html. |
| PGN game file: | lugano-1988.pgn |
| Seven players scored 7/9. Lubomir Ftacnik won on Buchholz (47.5), ahead of Eugenio Torre (47), Viktor Kortschnoj (46.5), Lev Psakhis (46), David Norwood and Kevin Spraggett (43), and Klaus Bischoff (42.5). |