I have either liem or ding winning this but if wesley upsets the competition and somehow wins I think it would be the breakthrough he needs to hit the 27xx rating.
2012 Spice Cup Invitational
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SPICE Cup Invitational 2012 will break the U.S. record as the highest rated International Invitational RR tournament in history!
The SPICE Institute and the Susan Polgar Foundation have organized multiple category 17 events in the past few years (U.S. record). This time, with the support from Webster University, the SPICE Cup Invitational will be a category 18 tournament with 3 players over 2700! The average rating of the event is approximately 2681!
- GM Le Quang Liem (Vietnam) - Defending champion & #1 in Vietnam
- GM Ding Liren (China) - 3-time and reigning Chinese Champion & #2 in China
- GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) - Former World Junior Champion & French Champion
- GM Csaba Balogh (Hungary) - Member of the Hungarian National Team
- GM Wesley So (Philippines) - #1 in the Philippines & Webster University freshman
- GM Georg Meier (Germany) - European Team Champion & Webster University sophomore
pretty nice lineup. Ding Liren has been on a roll as of late, defending champion Le has always played solid chess, and you can never count out the young Frenchman. Wesley So can be a sleeper pick if he decides to put away the drawmaster title, even for just a little while.