An open tournament has completed in San Salvador, the capitol of Salvador in the Central America. The Israeli GM Viktor Mikhalevsky won it scoring 7.5 points out of 9. The experts noted successful performance of participants from the Latin America - Sergio Minero from Costa Rica won the second prize yielding to the winner of competition only in additional coefficients. Carlos Juares from Guatemala was the fifth in the tournament table, scoring equal number of points with the Russian GM Kiriakov. However, the tournament was not uniform in its competition and the winner won a lot of games thanks to his obviously superior class.