[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: IM Kuderinov wins the 15th North American FIDE Invitational; no norms given

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
IM Kuderinov wins the 15th North American FIDE Invitational; no norms given
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1222487537.shtml


   Unfortunately for the norm aspirants, this was perhaps the strongest
   tournament in the [1]NA FIDE Invitational series. Five of the ten
   players were IMs (technically four, but the fifth has earned the title
   and will receive it officially in a month or two), one of whom is
   "super"-IM Ben Finegold, who has two GM norms and has had a GM-level
   rating for years. Despite the extraordinary strength at the top, FM
   Florin Felecan was in the norm hunt for much of the event, but was
   unable to keep it up all the way to the finish. But he was hardly
   alone - only one IM was able to achieve the IM norm standard in this
   event!
   Here are the final results:
   1. IM Kuderinov 7.5(!) (out of 9)
   2-3. IM Tate, IM Finegold 5.5
   4-6. FM Felecan, IM-elect Pasalic, FM Stamnov 4.5
   7. IM Young 4
   8. NM Tennant 3
   9. NM Koo 2.5
   10. Baumgartner 1
   Tournament site [2]here, games replayable on [3]Monroi.

References

   1. http://nachess.org/
   2. http://nachess.org/fide
   3. http://www.monroi.com/chess-games.html