Incomplete record. This archive holds 240 games of this event; the others are missing, and the number played is not established. The surviving scores cover only part of the documented field; the full physically played total is unknown.
Result
The fifteenth open ran 26–30 December 1998 with 309 participants. Ruzele, Sergey Galdunts, Dimitrij Bunzmann, Clemens Allwermann and Yuri Balashov shared first. The archive preserves 240 scores covering 148 players; the number physically played remains unestablished.