The 18th Annual SPICE Cup Open is scheduled to take place from 13-18th October at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Chesterfield, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The tournament is a single section open only to players rated over 2000 FIDE or 2200 USCF.
The tournament will be 9-round Swiss with the classical time control G/90 + inc/30. GM, IM, WGM, WIM norms are possible.
The total prize fund is $16,500 guaranteed.
Prizes:
$5000-3000-2000-1500-1000
Top U2450: $500-250
Top U2300: $500-250
Special prizes (which can be won in addition to place or class prize):
Top Woman: $1,000-500-200
Top Junior (born after 1/1/2007): $500-200
Brilliancy prize: $100
Website: https://webster.edu/spice
Participants:
1 GM Xiong Jeffery USA 2646
2 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro USA 2597
3 GM Quesada Perez Yasser CUB 2581
4 GM Zhou Jianchao CHN 2576
5 GM Jacobson Brandon USA 2575
6 GM Nyzhnyk Illya UKR 2573
7 GM Harsha Bharathakoti IND 2569
8 GM Corrales Jimenez Fidel USA 2564
9 GM Gazik Viktor SVK 2560
10 IM Woodward Andy USA 2545
11 GM Batsuren Dambasuren MGL 2532
12 GM Cordova Emilio PER 2531
13 IM Pham Tran Gia Phuc VIE 2444
14 FM Putnam Liam USA 2420
15 IM Chen Ryo USA 2408
16 IM Atanasov Anthony CAN 2396
17 FM Rorrer Grayson USA 2374
18 IM Sargsyan Anna M. ARM 2371
19 IM Williams Justus USA 2361
20 IM Park Evan USA 2353
21 IM Lee Michael USA 2338
22 IM Wang Tianqi USA 2331
23 FM Chirilov James A USA 2320
24 WGM Marjanovic Annamaria HUN 2302
25 IM Beukes Dante M NAM 2254
26 IM Torres Rosas Luis Carlos MEX 2247
27 Oberoi Shelev USA 2247
28 FM Johnson Donald USA 2244
29 Proleiko Julian USA 2232
30 WGM Antova Gabriela BUL 2224
31 FM Homa Seth USA 2200
32 CM Guo Ethan USA 2190
33 CM Wan Joseph USA 2184
34 Kung Thomas USA 2182
35 FM Eckert Doug USA 2151
36 Jing Andrew USA 2141
37 WIM Bommini Mounika Akshaya IND 2140
38 FM Andrews Todd USA 2122
39 FM Yanayt Eugene USA 2100
40 Wilber Matthew K USA 2081
41 WFM Toshali V IND 2073
42 Jiang Andrew USA 2068
43 Fang Elbert USA 2067
44 Hoffman Luc USA 2067
45 AIM Takahashi Michael USA 2057
46 Shangin Lev USA 2048
47 Shepherd Duncan USA 2038
48 Zhang Alex USA 2032
49 Anand Vignesh USA 2027
50 Abraham John Z USA 2026
51 Liu Zachary Hankun CAN 2022
52 Xia Joshua USA 2012
53 WFM Dhyana Patel IND 2010
54 Quirke Jeffrey USA 1980
55 Rambha Hemachandra USA 1973
56 FM Van Meter Lester USA 1904
57 Rahul Mynala IND 1837