2012 SPICE Cup Open

Updated: Oct 18, 2012, 2:36 PM | 3 | Chess Event Coverage

In addition to the 6-player double round-robin invitational SPICE Cup featured in an earlier report, there is also an Open competition taking place from 16-20 October at the SPICE Cup Chess Festival in St.Louis.

The format is a 9 round Swiss featuring 13 GMs out of a total field of 43 players.

There are two rounds every day at 11:00 at 16:00, except the solitary final round on 20 October which starts at 10:00. The time control is Game in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment from the start.

With a guaranteed $10,000 prize fund there is plenty to play for!

The standings after 5 rounds

1	GM Eugene Perelshteyn	2528	4½
2	GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez	2605	4
3	GM Ray Robson	2602	4
4	GM Manuel Leon Hoyos	2603	3½
5	GM Alejandro Ramirez	2551	3½
6	GM Anatoly Bykhovsky	2522	3½
7	GM Mesgen Amanov	2507	3½
8	IM Darwin Yang	2485	3½
9	GM Andre Diamant	2471	3½
10	IM Vitaly Neimer	2384	3½
11	GM Yury Shulman	2595	3
12	GM Victor Mikhalevski	2538	3
13	GM Benjamin Finegold	2493	3
14	GM Denes Boros	2492	3
15	IM Leonid Gerzhoy	2469	3
16	IM Keaton Kiewra	2442	3
17	IM Justin Sarkar	2408	3
18	IM Priyadharshan Kannappan	2407	3
19	IM Zhanibek Amanov	2374	3
20	IM Robert Mogranzini	2492	2½
21	IM John Bartholomew	2446	2½
22	IM Jake Kleiman	2377	2½
23	IM Levan Bregadze	2366	2½
24	FM Kayden W Troff	2312	2½
25	FM Konstantin Kavutskiy	2287	2½
26	NM Nolan Hendrickson	2146	2½
27	GM Pascal Charbonneau	2517	2
28	IM Martha L Fierro	2387	2
29	FM Aman Hambleton	2348	2
30	WGM Veronika Schneider	2313	2
31	FM Jouaquin B. Banawa	2300	2
32	Iskandar Aripov	2155	2
33	FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy	2377	1½
34	WGM Anna Sharevich	2294	1½
35	FM Adarsh Jayakumar	2290	1½
36	WIM Carla Heredia	2188	1½
37	Brian H Cassidy	2098	1½
38	NM Spencer Finegold	2081	1½
39	WIM Inna Agrest	2204	1
40	FM Hans Jung	2150	1
41	Tom Polgar-Shutzman	unr.	1
42	FM Carl Brandon Boor	2287	0
43	Matt D Helfst	1965	0

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2012 SPICE Cup Open

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