North American Chess Association - Chess for Kids and Adults - Chess for Leisure and Serious Players

From August 22 thru August 26, 2009, the North American Chess Association, will host the 23rd NA FIDE Invitational. We will be departing from our standard round robin (all play all) format and using the Swiss System format to allow for a larger pool of participants before the end of summer.

The tournament will be held in parallel to the 2009 US G/60 and US G/30 National Chess Championships at the Holiday Inn North Shore Hotel in Skokie , IL.

Time control: G/90 + 30/sec increment.

Round times are: Rd 1 - 8 (Sat thru Tuesday): 12pm and 5pm, Rd 9 (Wednesday) 10am. This will allow for leaving on Wednesday the 26th in the evening. G/90 + 30/sec increments based on 60 moves is 4 hours of play which places us at 4pm. Assume 1 hour of travel time in rush hour traffic to either O'hare airport or Midway Airport (recommended to fly into is O'hare airport).

Forfeit Rule: 30 minutes after start of the round. 

Event Prizes (all guaranteed): 1st - $1500, 2nd - $1000, 3rd - $750, 4th - $500, 5th - $250. Top U2450 - $500 Top U2350 - $500

Entry Fees (all based on FIDE ratings from April 2009 rating list and are non-refundable upon registration):

• 2451 + - $100
• U2450 - $125 
• U2400 - $150
• U2350 - $175 
• U2300 - $200 
• U2250 - $300 
• U2200 - $400
• U2100 - $500

Discounts:

• $50 off registration for first 10 paid foreign federation entries
• $50 refund for staying 2 nights at the Holiday Inn North Shore
• $100 refund for staying at the Holiday Inn North Shore for the entire tournament

If you are going to take advantage of the hotel discount you must provide proof of the hotel bill. If players are sharing a room, the discount will be equally refunded to all players staying in the room.

To register online for the event please visit - http://nacafide23.eventbrite.com/

Another way of registering is sending payment through PayPal to info@nachess.org for the amount listed above. Make sure you include in your full name and FIDE ID.

Confirmed Players (30 players)

(1) GM Zviad Izori (GEO) - 2604
(2) GM Giorgi Kacheishvili (GEO) - 2606
(3) GM Nikola Mitkov (MKD) - 2526
(4) GM Mesgen Amanov (TKM) - 2497
(5) IM Ben Finegold (USA) - 2513
(6) IM Ray Robson (USA) - 2491
(7) IM Marc T. Arnold (USA) - 2408
(8) IM David Vigorito (USA) - 2400
(9) IM Arjun Vishnuvardhan (IND) - 2295
(10) IM Angelo Young (PHI) - 2318
(11) IM Michael Mulyar (USA) - 2390
(12) IM Sam Shankland (USA) - 2448
(13) IM Dean Ippolito (USA) - 2455
(14) IM Justin Sarkar (USA) - 2388
(15) FM Florin Felecan (USA) - 2399
(16) FM Gauri Shankar (IND) - 2270
(17) FM Michael Lee (USA) - 2347
(18) FM Jake Kleiman (USA) - 2350
(19) FM Alex Betaneli (USA) - 2287
(20) FM Robby Adamson (USA) - 2302
(21) FM Darwin Yang (USA) - 2262
(22) FM Jomo Pitterson (JAM) - 2254
(23) FM Albert Chow (USA) - 2254
(24) Mackenzie Molner (USA) - 2393
(25) Erik Santarius (USA) - 2267
(26) Shane Matthews (JAM) - 2228
(27) Michael Thaler (USA) - 2235
(28) Matthew Fouts (USA) - 2206
(29) Ashish Vaja (USA) - 2195
(30) Alex Velinakov (USA) - 2069