The upcoming SPICE Cup will take place from September 19-28 at Texas Tech University (Student Union Building) in Lubbock, Texas.
There will be a day off in the middle of the tournament. What kind of extra fun event would you like to see on this day off?
– Blitz tournament
– Fischer random blitz tournament
– Pro-Am chess tournament
– Another activity
In addition to having the games broadcast LIVE on MonRoi, ICC and other sources, we will also try to show LIVE video feeds and taped video interviews.
Here are the players:
USA – GM Onischuk, Alexander 2734 USCF / 2670 FIDE
IND – GM Pentala, Harikrishna 2724 USCF 2668 FIDE
GER – GM Kritz, Leonid 2667 USCF / 2610 FIDE
USA – GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2660 USCF / 2610 FIDE
USA – GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2664 USCF / 2605 FIDE
USA – GM Becerra, Julio 2640 USCF / 2598 FIDE
ISR – GM Mikhalevski, Victor 2679 USCF / 2592 FIDE
POL – GM Miton, Kamil 2703 USCF / 2580 FIDE
ISL – GM Stefansson, Hannes 2597 USCF / 2566 FIDE
USA – GM Perelshteyn, Eugene 2619 USCF / 2555 FIDE (Defending Champion)
Average FIDE: 2605 (Category 15)
Average USCF: 2669
This will make the 2008 SPICE Cup the highest rated 10 person International RR event in U.S. history.
The SPICE Cup Invitational will be the main attraction of the annual SPICE Cup Festival. Other activities will include the 2008 Texas Women’s Open Championship, SPICE Cup Grand Prix, SPICE Cup Scholastic, SPICE Cup Pro-Am event, etc. Our goal is to add a group B next year and even more activities.
Easy one. Fischer random.
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Thank you, and sorry
A ‘day off’ kind of implies no chess.
But if chess is involved, I would like to see you take on the 10 players in a simul.
Yes! A simul!
Fischer random blitz tournament
Fischer-Random blitz is great, and fun for the players.
Make sure it is live on the internet!
“Fischer random blitz tournament”
Yes, but in the evolution of chess learning, it is time to pre-annouonce 1 FRC (a.k.a. chess960) initial setup weeks before the tournament, and to use that 1 setup for all games in the Blitz tournament.
The ChessTigers in Mainz have already shown the world what FRC is like when setups are randomly chosen anew shortly before each game. Let us learn something new.
GeneM
CastleLong.com , for FRC-chess960
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GMs playing Bughouse chess.
take any player interested out to dinner for a nice meal and ask interested GMs to go over some of their games for the public in an open session so that people can learn how they think
Take me out to dinner! :D~~~~~~
Blitz.
Chess Boxing!!!!!!
I can’t believe some of the stupid posts above. Grow up people.
“Anonymous said…
I can’t believe some of the stupid posts above. Grow up people.”
Get off the computer. Mom said it’s time for dinner!
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
I can’t believe how stupid I am!
I’d like to see two or three Polgar ladies playing in the Invitational.
GM bughouse is a great idea!
A grandmaster pie eating contest…
how can someone go as a reporter representing a chess site? can you help me with that information?
buho21=owl21 would like to send a reporter to cover this event.
please I would like to get more information on this, my email is athenita12@gmail.com