Ray Robson Wins 2012 SPICE Cup Open

SonofPearl
on 10/20/12 2:49 PM.

Webster University freshman GM Ray Robson has won the 2012 SPICE Cup Open. He scored 5 wins, 4 draws, and no losses to win with a score of 7/9.

The competition format was a 9 round Swiss featuring 13 GMs and a total field of 43 players.

There was also a first GM norm for IM Vitaly Neimer, and IM norms for FM Kayden Troff, FM Aman Hambleton and NM Nolan Hendrickson.

The time control was Game in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment from the start.

Ray Robson receiving his trophy from Susan Polgar

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The 2012 SPICE Cup Open final standings

1	GM Ray Robson	2602	7
2	GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez	2605	6½
3	GM Alejandro Ramirez	2551	6
4	GM Victor Mikhalevski	2538	6
5	IM Vitaly Neimer	2384	6
6	GM Manuel Leon Hoyos	2603	5½
7	GM Eugene Perelshteyn	2528	5½
8	GM Mesgen Amanov	2507	5½
9	GM Benjamin Finegold	2493	5½
10	GM Denes Boros	2492	5½
11	IM Darwin Yang	2485	5½
12	GM Andre Diamant	2471	5½
13	IM Leonid Gerzhoy	2469	5½
14	GM Yury Shulman	2595	5
15	GM Anatoly Bykhovsky	2522	5
16	GM Pascal Charbonneau	2517	5
17	IM Roberto Mogranzini	2492	5
18	IM Justin Sarkar	2408	5
19	FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy	2377	5
20	FM Aman Hambleton	2348	5
21	FM Kayden W Troff	2312	5
22	NM Nolan Hendrickson	2146	5
23	IM Priyadharshan Kannappan	2407	4½
24	WGM Veronika Schneider	2313	4½
25	FM Jouaquin B. Banawa	2300	4½
26	IM John Bartholomew	2446	4
27	IM Keaton Kiewra	2442	4
28	IM Jake Kleiman	2377	4
29	IM Levan Bregadze	2366	4
30	WGM Anna Sharevich	2294	4
31	FM Adarsh Jayakumar	2290	4
32	FM Konstantin Kavutskiy	2287	4
33	WIM Carla Heredia	2188	4
34	NM Spencer Finegold	2081	4
35	IM Martha L Fierro	2387	3½
36	IM Zhanibek Amanov	2374	3
37	WIM Inna Agrest	2204	3
38	Iskandar Aripov	2155	3
39	FM Hans Jung	2150	2½
40	Brian H Cassidy	2098	1½
41	Matt D Helfst	1965	1½
42	Tom Polgar-Shutzman	unr.	1½

The invitational 6-player double round-robin invitational SPICE Cup competition is also nearing its climax, with top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leading on 5/8 with two rounds remaining.

The SPICE Cup standings after 8 rounds

Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2705	5
Ding, Liren	2702	4½
Le, Quang Liem	2703	4
So, Wesley	2677	4
Balogh, Csaba	2664	3½
Meier, Georg	2646	3

Pictures and games from Susan Polgar's Chess Blog. More photos here.

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7 months ago
Cnl_Duck

What puzzles me is that the last-place finisher was unrated.
7 months ago
CRERULES

I MEET RAY ROBSin bEFORE HAVE U?!?!?!
7 months ago
medoelmasry

Congrats to Wisconsin's own NM Nolan Hendrickson on making his first IM nor
7 months ago
MikeBrandy1

congratz
7 months ago
ChrisWainscott

Congrats to Wisconsin's own NM Nolan Hendrickson on making his first IM norm!
7 months ago
mobidi

Robson-Yes -he will be next american SupersStar-very tallented boy.His style is very complicated and active-good combination!Good Luck ! SUPERSTAR!
7 months ago
Lawdoginator

Wow! Ray Robson and Wesley So are college roommates!
7 months ago
DimPhoenix

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7 months ago
IM KaydenTroff

Thanks! It was a lot of fun:) Definitely a fabulous event:) In the last round if I had won against GM Victor Mikhalevski I would have had a GM Norm, but in the end pushed to hard for the win and lost.

Congratulations to GM Ray Robson for his win! And others who scored a Norm!

@SerbianChessStar

This is now my fourth IM Norm!
7 months ago
EternalChess

Good job Troff!

How much IM norms are you at?
7 months ago
SonofPearl

Well done Kayden Troff on your IM norm!