The Webster University SPICE Cup Open took place on 16-20th October at the Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, USA.
The SPICE Cup Open was held alongside the SPICE Cup Invitational and offered a prize pool of $ 10,000 ($ 4,000 for the winner). The tournament was a 9-round Swiss event.
GM Ray Robson, member of the USA national team, took a clear first place with 7 points, leaving the Cuban GM Fidel Corrales half a point behind.
Ray Robson and Susan Polgar
The third place was shared by GM Alejandro Ramirez, GM Viktor Mikhalevski and IM Vitaly Neimer.
Neimer also earned a GM-norm. In addition, IM norms were fulfilled by FM Kayden Troff, FM Aman Hambleton and NM Nolan Hendrickson.
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
