Former US Champion GM Alexander Onischuk has accepted the invitation to participate in the 2nd Annual SPICE Cup. We are getting very near the category 15 mark. This will be the highest rated 10 player RR international tournament in US history!
Here are the 7 confirmed players so far:
GM Onischuk, Alexander 2728 USCF / 2664 FIDE
GM Miton, Kamil 2703 USCF / 2620 FIDE
GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2697 USCF / 2596 FIDE
GM Kritz, Leonid 2667 USCF / 2609 FIDE
GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2666 USCF / 2601 FIDE
GM Perelshteyn, Eugene 2623 USCF / 2552 FIDE
GM Hera, Imre 2599 USCF / 2524 FIDE
Average USCF rating so far: 2669
Average FIDE rating so far: 2596
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Go SPICE!
Long live Susan Polgar!
Yes!
Why should you get to organize this tournament? It should be Bill Goichberg. We support him. We don’t want any tournament for foreigners to make money. We don’t want foreign organziers either. Go Bill, Randy, Randy and Jim! You’re true Americans!
We wanted to announce our “coming out of the closet” party tonight!
Together with Brian Laugherty, Ray Ray fat-boy Gordon, and the man from St. Kitts who thinks his own shadow is trying to KILL HIM, we want to thank the world for being tolerant of us limp-wristed daisies who have nothing else better to do than just troll peoples blogs and demonstrate how stupid we are! Tra-la-la!
Big gai hugz n kisses!
Bill, Randy, Randy, Jim, Brian, Brian, Sam, Marcus, and “pink-bottom” Ray-Ray
This is impressive given the fact that you’ve been in Lubbock for just about 6 months. It’s sad to see that the USCF refuse to ask you to help promote the USCF. Keep it up Susan. You do more for chess than all of them together.
“True Americans”. Indeed! What “uscf for americans” does not realize is that this country was formed by immigrants!
If Susan Polgar is able to organize the strongest RR tournament in US history, we should be proud of her, and not bash her.
She cares enough to contribute positively. What is wrong with that?
The problem is she and her husband are making Goichberg, Bauer, Hough and Berry look bad. These GMs are also taking bread away from true American GMs. We must not lose sight of this. That’s why they voted for Goichberg as President. We need an American in charge of an American federation. These foreigners should go back to where they came from.
Great job Susan!
This should be the format for the US Championship.
Ideally I would like to see the winner of a RR tournament face the current US Champion in a 8-10 game match.
But a Round Robin format would add more weight to the title of US Champion.
Higher rated than the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup dbl rr? (Spassky, Fischer, Petrosian, Larsen, Reshevsky, Unzicker, Najdorf, Portisch, Ivkov, Donner)
Yasser Seirawan with 2630 pts would do you an excellent job and push rating to 2600 !
Mr. Seirawan lives in Holland.
If Susan can do organize such great tournaments, just imagine how she could lead a NEW American chess organization to REPLACE the defunct USCF.
She’s proven a thousand times over that she can succeed, has succeeded, and would be a great leader for a new U.S. chess organization to replace the USCF.
GM Polgar hasn’t, to my knowledge, ever expressed her opinion about creating a new chess organization to replace the USCF.
I hope, sometime, she would tell what the pros and cons of doing so would be. Many people think it’s not only possible but necessary.
Why wait for many years to “fix” the USCF when a new organization can be built, have time to grow and flourish, and since the USCF is a dying organization, it wouldn’t take long for the new organization to be recognized by FIDE.
The USCF is only as good and “official” as the faith people place in it. A vast majority of the chess population has lost faith in the USCF. The falling membership issue, the budget deficit, the terrible board members (with the Exception of the wonderful work GM Polgar is doing), even American GM’s are sick of the USCF.
I wonder what GM Polgar thinks of helping to form a new organization to replace the USCF.
She would have a lot of support.
We got to get Jorge Hasbun Sammour to play. He’s playing great chess right now. I might give Nigel Short a call too to keep the category high.