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March 16, 2007

Southwest Open Champions, 1935 to present


















































































2016 Dallas GM Conrad Holt
2015 Dallas IM Andrey Gorovets
2014 Dallas GM Leonid Kritz
2013 Dallas GM George Margvelashvili
2012 Dallas GM Ioan Chirila
2011 Dallas GM Julio Sadorra
2010 Corpus Christi GM Alejandro Ramirez, IM Max Cornejo
2009 Fort Worth IM Gergely Antal
2008 Fort Worth GM Alejandro Ramirez, IM Salvijus Bercys, IM Puchen Wang, IM Jacek Stopa
2007 Brownsville IM Salvijus Bercys, IM Axel Bachmann, IM Daniel Fernandez, Tautvydas Vedrickas, IM Alfonso Almeida
2006 Fort Worth IM Drasko Boskovic
2005 Dallas Joe Bradford, IM Marko Zivanic
2004 Plano IM Peter Vavrik, IM Amon Simutowe
2003 Houston IM Magesh Panchanathan
2002 San Antonio GM Babakouly Annakov
2001 San Antonio GM Babakouly Annakov, IM Mark Diesen, Selby Anderson, Armando Lopez, Andres Suarez
2000 San Antonio Jason Doss
1999 Houston GM Yuri Shulman
1998 Austin Eugene Curtin, Eric Dimazana
1997 San Antonio Miles Ardaman
1996 Austin Miles Ardaman
1995 San Antonio Selby Anderson
1994 Austin Miles Ardaman
1993 San Antonio Miles Ardaman, Florentino Garmendez, Rafael Espinosa, John Readey, Selby Anderson
1992 San Antonio Miles Ardaman
1991 San Antonio Joe Bradford, Miles Ardaman, John Hall, Mansour Bighamian
1990 San Antonio Igor Shtern, Jim Gallagher, Carlos Hernandez
1989 Austin Joe Bradford
1988 San Antonio Joe Bradford
1987 San Antonio Joe Bradford
1986 San Antonio Joe Bradford, John Cline, Carlos Lau, Ildiko Madl
1985 San Antonio Joe Bradford
1984 San Antonio Joe Bradford, GM Walter Browne
1983 San Antonio IM Igor Ivanov, GM Dmitri Gurevich
1982 San Antonio Paul Kuroda
1981 San Antonio IM Igor Ivanov, Joe Bradford, Boris Caczynskyj, Jorge Smetan, Paul Kuroda
1980 San Antonio GM Larry Christiansen
1979 San Antonio GM Larry Christiansen
1978 San Antonio Joe Bradford, Jack Peters, William Martz, John Hall, Dennis Gogel, Jess Goodman
1977 San Antonio Joe Bradford
1976 San Antonio Robert Brieger, Elliott Winslow
1975 San Antonio Ron Henley, Robert Atlas, John Dunning, John Jacobs, Stephen Spencer
1974 Waco Eric Bone
1973 Houston John Dunning, Eric Bone, John Jacobs, Kenneth Frey, Jerry Milburn
1972 San Antonio Ken Smith
1971 Dallas John Hall, Lynn Green, Harold Riggs
1970 Waco Ken Smith, John Hall, Lynn Green
1969 Waco Ken Smith, Eric Bone, Ed Formanek
1968 San Antonio GM Pal Benko, John Jacobs, John Hall
1967 Houston GM Walter Browne, Ray Schutt, Bill Jones
1966 Dallas Ken Smith, Eric Bone, D La Pierre Ballard
1965 Houston Ken Smith, David Lees, William A. Bills
1964 San Antonio John Bob Payne, Peter Gould, Robert Breiger
1963 Fort Worth Ken Smith, Eric Bone, Norman W. James
1962 Dallas GM Pal Benko, Ken Smith, Robert Potter
1961 San Antonio Henry Davis, William Bills, John Bob Payne
1960 Albuquerque Hans Berliner, Ronald Cross, Rudolph Petters
1959 Fort Worth Ken Smith, Henry Davis, Max Burkett
1958 Houston Stephen Jones, Morley Patinsky, William Bills
1957 Dallas Blake Stevens, Jerry Milburn, John Bob Payne
1956 San Antonio Ken Smith, A. P. Coles III, John Bob Payne
1955 Waco Ken Smith, Allen H. Baker, Juris Jurevics
1954 Fort Worth William A. Bills, Blake W. Stevens, Louis Dina
1953 Houston Robert Steinmeyer, Don Thompson, Joe Gilbert
1952 Dallas Robert Steinmeyer, Herman Steiner, John Bob Payne
1951 Denison Robert Steinmeyer, Ken Smith, Robert Garver
1950 Waco C. D. Mott, C. F. Tears, Mevis R. Smith
1949 Tulsa J.C. Thompson, Lee Magee, Robert Garver
1948 San Antonio J.C. Thompson, Bela Rozsa, Robert Garver
1947 Fort Worth J.C. Thompson, R. G. Wade, Blake W. Stevens, Albert Roddy
1946 Houston J.C. Thompson, Al Lipton, J. W. Stapp
1945 Corpus Christi J.C. Thompson, J. W. Stapp, W. F. Gladney
1944 Dallas J.C. Thompson, Carl Pilnik, Manfred Kramer
1943 Dallas J. W. Stapp, Robert Potter
1942 Corpus Christi J.C. Thompson, Bela Rozsa
1941 Austin J.C. Thompson, Charles W. Hrissikopoulos, W. H. Janes
1940 Fort Worth J.C. Thompson, W. W. Adams, D. Mayers
1939 Houston J.C. Thompson, O. W. Manney, T. E. Hartsfield
1938 Waco J.C. Thompson, W. N. Kendall, G. A. Arderson
1937 Lubbock J.C. Thompson, Clemente Villareal, O. W. Manney
1936 Dallas T. E. Hartsfield, J. W. Stapp, W. N. Kendall
1935 San Antonio J.C. Thompson, O.W. Manney, C. P. Gray