The 2006 Spring North American FIDE Invitational

The 2006 Spring North American FIDE Invitational is underway!

You can view the games by going to www.monroi.com and registering for free!

We also have a special contest going on at www.thechesspiece.com. The Chess Piece is one of our sponsors for this event and they have provided 15 beautiful and unique chess boards and pieces.

Shortly a new blogsite will be opened and a new website. Future emails will come from info@nachess.org

The new blogsite will be www.nachess.blogspot.com

The new website will be www.nachess.org

Round 1 results:

Group GM-A

GM Mitkov – IM Finegold: 1/2-1/2
GM Shulman(x) – IM Smetankin: 1/2-1/2
IM Margvelashivili – IM Krush(*): 1-0
IM Friedel – IM Kriventsov: 1/2-1/2
IM Zatonskih(*) – GM Mikhalevski: 0-1

Group GM-B

GM Gurevich – GM Golod: 1/2-1/2
IM Lawson – IM Burnett: 1-0
IM Scekic – GM Georgiev: 1-0
IM Almeida – IM Kopec: will be played later
WGM Goletiani(*) – FM Bereolos: 1-0

Group IM-C

NM Sorkin-GM Hernandez: 0-1
GM Sher – FM Chow: 1/2-1/2
FM Tsyganov – NM Karagianis: 1-0
NM Vishnuvardhan – FM Hess: 1/2-1/2
FM Pasalic – Shankar: 1-0

Round 2 results:

Group GM-A

IM Kriventsov – IM Smetankin: 0-1
IM Krush(*) – GM Mikhalevski: 0-1
IM Finegold – IM Zatonskih(*): 1-0
GM Shulman(x) – GM Mitkov: 1-0
IM Margvelashvili – IM Friedel: 1/2-1/2

Group GM-B

IM Dr. Kopec – IM Lawson: 1/2-1/2
GM Gurevich – IM Almeida: 1-0
IM Scekic – IM Burnett: 1-0
GM Georgiev – WGM Goletiani(*): 1-0
GM Golod – FM Bereolos: 1-0

Group IM-C

GM Hernandez – FM Tsyganov: 1-0
FM Chow – Shankar: 0-1
NM Karagianis – GM Sher: 1/2-1/2
FM Pasalic – NM Vishnuvardhan: 1-0
FM Hess – NM Sorkin: 0-1

Standings after 2 rounds:

Group GM-A

GM Victor Mikhalevski – 2.0/2.0, GM Yury Shulman – 1.5/2.0, IM Ben Finegold – 1.5/2.0, IM Stan Smetankin – 1.5/2.0, IM Josh Friedel – 1.0/2.0, IM Georgi Margvelshvili – 1.0/2.0, GM Nikola Mitkov – .5/2.0, IM Stan Kriventsov – .5/2.0, IM Irina Krush – 0/2.0, IM Anna Zatonskih – 0/2.0

Group GM-B

IM Milos Scekic – 2.0/2.0, GM Vitali Golod – 1.5/2.0, GM Dmitry Gurevich – 1.5/2.0, IM Eric Lawson – 1.5/2.0, GM Vladimir Georgiev – 1.0/2.0, IM Alfonso Almeida – 1.0/2.0, WGM Rusa Goletiani – 1.0/2.0, IM Dr. Danny Kopec – .5/2.0, IM Ronald Burnett – 0/0, FM Peter Bereolos – 0/0

Group IM-C

GM Gilberto Hernandez – 2.0/2.0, FM Mehmed Pasalic – 2.0/2.0, FM Albert Chow – 1.5/2.0, GM Miron Sher – 1.0/2.0, FM Robert Hess – 1.0/2.0, FM Igor Tsyganov – 1.0/2.0, NM Igor Sorkin – .5/2.0, NM Pete Karagianis – .5/2.0, NM Arjun Vishnuvardhan – .5/2.0, Gauri Shankar – 0/2.0

(*) Members of the 2006 US Women’s Olympiad Team
(x) Captain of the 2006 US Women’s Olympiad Team