GM Amon Simutowe has confirmed his participation for the 2010 SPICE Spring Invitational.
The 2010 SPICE Spring Invitational will take place in March (13-19) at the beautiful campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. Robert Hess got his 2nd GM norm last year in this event and he went on to become a GM shortly after that, along with a break through year. Who will get the GM norm(s) this year?
Confirmed players so far include:
– IM Gabor Papp (HUN) 2578 USCF – 2547 FIDE (GM norm) – Texas Tech Student
– IM Davorin Kuljasevic (CRO) 2585 USCF – 2544 FIDE (2 GM norms) – Texas Tech Student
– GM Ben Finegold (USA) 2616 USCF – 2531 FIDE (earned GM title at 2009 SPICE Cup B group)
– IM Gergely Antal (HUN) 2557 USCF – 2509 FIDE (2 GM norms) – Texas Tech Student
– IM Irina Krush (USA) 2492 USCF – 2455 FIDE (GM norm)
– GM Amon Simutowe (ZAM) 2453 USCF – 2453 FIDE
– IM Dean Ippolito (USA) 2534 USCF – 2447 FIDE
The names of 1 other GM and 2 other IMs will be confirmed shortly. GM norm is expected to be 6 points (out of 9 games).
https://chessdailynews.com/providing-scholarships-to-chess-players/
Texas Tech students are lucky to be able to play in so many strong tournaments.
Susan, you look smoking hot in this picture!!! I’ve always said that American women have a long way to go to match up to the effortless grace and style of European women. Here’s another classic reason why 🙂
Anon that was a cold shot! Now its time to get u back, here in American we assign our women rating, yeah the top gurlzz, my homedogs tell me Susan rated over 2600 in person but uscf got here at a mere 2580, whats going on?
Gubio bi svoju mušku snagu na Suzu,a anonymous 8:53:00 ?
🙂
I ja bi sine,i ja bi…
Anon 8:53 a.m., I don’t care what you say, I’d like to get a Tromso t-shirt like Susan is wearing. Beautiful art silk-screened onto it.