2007 SPICE Cup International Invitational Chess Tournament
November 9 – 16, 2007
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
The average rating of this tournament will be approximately 2527, which is a category 12 event. This will be one of the strongest International round robin tournaments in the United States in many years. The FIDE time control will be 40 moves in 90 minutes + 15 minutes after move 40. There will also be a 30 second increment starting from move 1.
The International Arbiter and Chief TD will be IA Frank K. Berry. The assistant Chief TD will be Mr. Jim Berry, USCF VP.
1. To be announced shortly
2. GM Boris Gulko 2571 USA
3. GM Julio Beccerra 2568 USA
4. GM Imre Hera 2544 Hungary
5. GM Gilberto Hernandez 2536 Mexico
6. GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2536 USA
7. IM Dmitry Schneider 2502 USA
8. IM Manuel Leon Hoyos 2495 Mexico
9. IM Irina Krush 2475 USA
10. IM Blas Lugo 2411 USA
All games will be covered LIVE on http://www.monroi.com/
2527 is impressive. I think the Mechanics Institute did have a cat. 10. Good luck!
So did Moskow give any money?
It’s too bad Reshevsky is the smallest font on your flyer. It would have been nice if it had been the Reshevsky Memorial Tournament and then in smaller font “sponsored by SPICE”
Another moronic troll. Why the hell should they have it as the Reshevsky Memorial Tournament? Why should anyone even put Reshevsky at all? This is a typical Lafferty troll style post.
What is Lafferty?
I wish the US would have more tournaments like this. Even a poorer country like Mexico can organize a first class multimillion dollar event.
Thanks for a 1st Class Tournament Susan!
P.S. Good Luck Irina!! I hope you get a GM Norm ; )
Travis
You really pulled it off in spite of Sloan and his peeps. Way to go Susan! We’ll be following this everyday.
Good luck Susan! I’ll be rooting for Blas Lugo!
anon 5:20, Lafferty is a person. This is how a fellow USCF member described him in the uscf forum:
“Brian Lafferty lacks the social skills needed to participate in this forum. This is not the first time that he has demonstrated that he has a extremely limited ability to get along with people with whom he disagrees.” Smith
Looks like a great tournament. Go Irina! Congrats for getting so many strong players to come to Lubbock (and two great TDs too!)
Go Dmitry! I want to see him get his final GM norm. Thanks Susan for organizing this. Don’t let the idiots stop you from helping chess.
I’m rooting for Irina. 🙂
Irina sure is the cutest 🙂
hmmm…doing the math the top player should be around 2632. Canidates (not including inactive players):
Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2639
Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2639
Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2639
Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2638
Amonatov, Farrukh g TJK 2637
Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2637
Smirnov, Pavel g RUS 2636
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2635
Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2635
Bauer, Christian g FRA 2634
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2634
Sakaev, Konstantin g RUS 2634
Zhang, Zhong g SIN 2634
Lputian, Smbat G g ARM 2633
Ye, Jiangchuan g CHN 2632
Istratescu, Andrei g ROU 2631
Mchedlishvili, Mikheil g GEO 2631
Kobalia, Mikhail g RUS 2631
Miton, Kamil g POL 2628
Gurevich, Mikhail g TUR 2627
Vladimirov, Evgeny g KAZ 2627
I wonder who it is?
A Lafferty is when animal have problem after excrement and must drag their Lafferty on the floor to clean themselves.
What is the minimum average rating for a Category 12 tournament?
For an average of 2527, the ‘mystery player’ must have an ELO of 2632 or more.
As Humpy Koneru’s ELO is 2606 and greater than the (inactive) Susan Polgar’s (last seen by me parked at 2577), I assume the mystery player is not SP herself. Perhaps we should open a ‘book’.
When Danny Kopec’s photograph appeared in this blog for no obvious reason, I thought he might be appearing in the Reshevsky Memorial tournament.
However, his FIDE ELO is 2354 as of January 2007, at least according to Wikipedia which I have no reason to doubt on this occasion.
So I assume the ‘mystery guest’ is not Danny Kopec.
Err – have we not just seen Yasser Seirawan’s photograph on this blog? Seirawan stands at ELO 2634 – enough already!
So my inference is that Yasser will play.
The conclusion that Yasser will play does not take into account the ‘?’ against the Number 1 spot.
I think there must be some doubt about whether the required ‘2632’ player will actually play. Perhaps they will pull out at the last minute ‘for personal reasons’.
Note also that the program cover does not claim to be a Category 12 Tournament.
Average ELO = 2526.6: is that good enough for category 12 for FIDE?