16th North American FIDE Invitational

One of the USA's promising young female chessplayers, WFM Alisa Melekhina, participated in the 16th North American FIDE Invitational in suburban Chicago October 18 -24, 2008, put together by the North American Chess Association. Here are the final standings: 1st - IM Valay Parikh - 7/9 2nd - IM Ben Finegold - 6.5/9 3rd - IM Angelo Young - 5.5/9 4th-5th - FM Peter Bereolos & FM Florin Felecan - 5/9 6th-7th - FM Dale Haessel & IM Emory Tate - 4/9 8th - FM Mehmed Pasalic - 3.5/9 9th - WFM Alisa Melekhina - 3/9 10th - FM Aleksander Stamnov - 1.5/9