GM Dmitry Andreikin 2659 –
GM Wesley So 2644 – Philippines (#7 junior under 20 in the world – #1 in the Philippines – member of the 2008 Filipino Olympiad team.) 15
GM Varuzhan Akobian 2636 – USA (#6 in the U.S. – 2008 SPICE Cup Co-Champion – 2-time Olympiad Bronze Medalist) 26
GM Yuriy Kuzubov 2636 – Ukraine (#8 junior under 20 in the world – #12 in Ukraine) 19
GM Rauf Mamedov 2626 –
GM Jon Ludvig Hammer 2585 –
This event will break the
B Group – Category 11 (10-player RR) – Average rating: 2501.9
IM Gabor Papp 2562 – HUN (GM norm – Texas Tech Student in 8/2009)
IM Davorin Kuljasevic 2547 – CRO (2 GM norms – Texas Tech Student in 8/2009)
GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2541 – USA (2007 SPICE Cup Champion)
IM Ray Robson 2527 –
GM Andre Diamant 2526 –
IM Ben Finegold 2515 – USA (2 GM norms)
IM Gergely Antal 2486 – HUN (2 GM norms – Texas Tech Student)
GM Amon Simutowe 2473 – ZAM (#1 player in Zambia, first Zambian GM, board 1 of Zambian Olympiad team)
IM Oliver Barbosa 2454 – PHI (One of the top young Filipinos – Winner of 20 U.S. tournaments in the past year)
FM Danny Rensch 2388 –
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
Nice line-up, congratulations! You could probably increase the number of Robson’s GM norms to 2 already though?!
GMN Wesley So is still 15 years old and won’t be 16 yerars old till Otober.
GM Wesley So is still 15 years old, won’t be 16 till October.
Very good work Susan! This is exciting for American chess! One comment, the GM from Zambia is NOT the first African GM. I think people forget that Egypt is a part of Africa. Please correct.