2009 SPICE Cup (September 19-29, 2009)
There will be an A and B group in this year’s SPICE Cup. Group A will be at least a category 16 (average FIDE rating of 2626 and above) event or perhaps even a category 17 (average FIDE rating of 2626 and above) event. This will break the U.S. record of last year’s SPICE Cup of category 15.
Confirmed players for group A (6-player DRR) so far are:
GM Wesley So 2650 – PHI
GM Yuriy Kuzubov 2630 – UKR
(3 other players have already been tentatively confirmed)
Group B will be a category 11 (average FIDE rating of 2501 and above) event or perhaps a category 12 (average FIDE rating of 2526 and above) event.
Confirmed players for group B (10-player RR) so far are:
GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2543 – USA (2007 SPICE Cup Champion)
GM-elect Andre Diamant 2510 – Brazil (2008 Brazilian Champion)
IM Ben Finegold 2502 – USA (2 GM norms)
IM Gergely Antal 2485 – HUN (2 GM norms)
IM Ray Robson 2477 – USA (winner of the 2009-2010 Samford Fellowship)
(3 other players have already been tentatively confirmed)
All ratings listed are FIDE ratings.
SPICE Cup Open and SPICE Cup Scholastic Open are once again two of the events which are a part of the SPICE Cup Chess Festival.
Just as last year, the SPICE Cup will be held on campus at Texas Tech University and is co-organized by Texas Tech University, SPICE and the Susan Polgar Foundation.
More amazing events! Susan is doing so much to give players opportunities while the USCF under Goichberg and Jim Berry are doing everything possible for their personal political gains. Congratulations to SPICE and TTU.
Are you planning to invite any Canadians, Susan?
Who do you have in mind? None of the Canadian would qualify for the A group. Who could qualify for the B group for norms? He/she needs to be around 2500 for this.