The event has just concluded. These are the unofficial standings (according to my personal calculations) at the 2006 Spring North American FIDE Invitational, sponsored by The North American Chess Association, Mon Roi, the Chess Piece and Cajun Chess.

You can check out the games at Mon Roi and get the official updated results here.

GM-A

1st place – 7.5 GM Mikhalevski
2nd – 3rd place – 6.0 GM Shulman, IM Margvelashvili
4th – 5th place – 5 GM Mitkov, IM Finegold
6th place – 4.5 IM Smetankin
7th place – 3.5 IM Zatonskih *
8th – 10th place – 2.5 IM Friedel, IM Kriventsov, IM Krush *

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GM-B

1st place – 7.0 GM Golod
2nd place – 6.0 GM Gurevich
3rd – 4th place – 5.5 GM Georgiev, IM Lawson
5th – 5.0 IM Burnett
6th – 7th place – 4.0 IM Almeida, IM Scekic
8th – 9th place – 3.0 WGM Goletiani *, IM Danny Kopec
10th place – 2.0 FM Bereolos

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IM-C

1st place – 8.0 GM Hernandez
2nd place – 7.0 FM Pasalic
3rd place – 6.0 FM Hess
4th – 5th place – 5.0 GM Sher, NM Sorkin
6th place – 4.0 FM Tsyganov
7th place – 3.0 FM Chow
8th – 9th th place – 2.5 NM Visnuvardhan, Shankar
10th place – 2.0 NM Karagianis

Congratulations to GMs Mikhalevski, Golod and Hernandez as well as IM Margvelashvili (GM norm) and FM Pasalic (IM norm)! In addition, big thanks to Sevan Muradian (President of NACA), organizer of this wonderful event and all the sponsors (Mon Roi, the Chess Piece and Cajun Chess).

* Members of the 2006 US Women’s Olympiad Team Posted by Picasa

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