14th NA FIDE Invitational Kicks Off

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The 14th NA FIDE Invitational has kicked off.

Marc Arnold attempts to complete his norm requirements this time. He scored his first two norms at this tournament series.

A number of top youth players have made their IM norms at this event - Ray Robson, Marc Arnold, Alisa Melekhina.

Last month Aleksander Stamnov narrowly missed his IM norm. Will he make it this month?

Parker Zhao is coming off of a successful IM norm hunt from the New England Masters. Can he do back to back norms?

All games are being transmitted LIVE on the MonRoi World Databank of Chess. Games can be viewed at: nachess.org/fide/live.html

Thanks to our newest sponsors - The Holiday Inn Northshore Hotel in Skokie, IL (hiskokie.com) for sponsorship of the playing venue for this event and the rest of 2008 and also for sponsorsing the playing venue for the Chicago Blaze, the official Chicago team for the US Chess League.

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Good luck to FM Marc Arnold towards making his 3rd IM-norm.
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Although off to a 4-0 start, Arnold has a tough road ahead as he still has to face the three IMs in the tournament.