[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Starting Today: The 12 North American FIDE Invitational

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Starting Today: The 12 North American FIDE Invitational
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1214057797.shtml


   It's time for the latest installment of organizer Sevan Muradian'a
   series of IM norm tournaments; the 12th, to be exact. As usual, it
   takes place at IM Angelo Young's Touch Move Chess Center (5639 N.
   Ashland in Chicago) and takes 10 players (usually 3 IMs + 7 norm
   seekers, but with Pasalic it's really 4 + 6) through a round robin
   over the next 7 days. (Two games each today and tomorrow, then one a
   day from Monday through Friday.) Here are the participants:
   IM Kirill Kuderinov (KAZ)
   IM Angelo Young (PHI)
   IM Emory Tate (USA)
   IM-elect (FM) Mehmed Pasalic (GER) - gained all 3 IM norms in this
   tournament series
   FM Florin Felecan (USA) - holds 1 IM norm
   FM Jim Dean (USA)
   FM Aleksander Stamnov (MKD)
   FM Albert Chow (USA)
   WFM Yuanling Yuan (CAN)
   Marc Arnold (USA) - gained 1st IM norm at this event in March 2008
   The IM norm standard is 6.5/9.