The 18th SPICE Cup Open is taking place from October 13 to October 18 in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA. The tournament has 52 participants who will compete in 9 rounds Swiss. The top competitors include GMs Jeffery Xiong, Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Yasser Quesada Perez, Jianchao Zhou, Illya Nyzhnyk, Bharathakoti Harsha and Fidel Corrales Jimenez. Full list of participants in the 18th SPICE Cup Chess Open is available below.
Tournament director and organizer is SPICE Cup Program director GM Liem Le, who not only organizes the event, but recently reached his highest ELO and participated in the 2024 Chess Olympiad
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18th SPICE Cup Chess Open
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
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
Nyzhnyk, Illya
UKR
2573
6
GM
Harsha, Bharathakoti
IND
2569
7
GM
Corrales Jimenez, Fidel
USA
2564
8
GM
Gazik, Viktor
SVK
2560
9
IM
Woodward, Andy
USA
2545
10
GM
Batsuren, Dambasuren
MGL
2532
11
GM
Cordova, Emilio
PER
2531
12
IM
Pham, Tran Gia Phuc
VIE
2444
13
FM
Putnam, Liam
USA
2420
14
IM
Chen, Ryo
USA
2408
15
IM
Atanasov, Anthony
CAN
2396
16
IM
Sargsyan, Anna M.
ARM
2371
17
IM
Williams, Justus
USA
2361
18
IM
Park, Evan
USA
2353
19
IM
Lee, Michael
USA
2338
20
IM
Wang, Tianqi
USA
2331
21
FM
Chirilov, James A
USA
2320
22
WGM
Marjanovic, Annamaria
HUN
2302
23
IM
Beukes, Dante M
NAM
2254
24
FM
Amburgy, Ryan
USA
2253
25
IM
Torres Rosas, Luis Carlos
MEX
2247
26
Oberoi, Shelev
USA
2247
27
FM
Johnson, Donald
USA
2244
28
Proleiko, Julian
USA
2232
29
WGM
Antova, Gabriela
BUL
2224
30
FM
Homa, Seth
USA
2200
31
CM
Wan, Joseph
USA
2184
32
FM
Eckert, Doug
USA
2151
33
Zhu, Linxi
USA
2143
34
Jing, Andrew
USA
2141
35
WIM
Bommini, Mounika Akshaya
IND
2140
36
FM
Yanayt, Eugene
USA
2100
37
Wilber, Matthew K
USA
2081
38
WFM
Toshali, V
IND
2073
39
Jiang, Andrew
USA
2068
40
Fang, Elbert
USA
2067
41
Hoffman, Luc
USA
2067
42
AIM
Takahashi, Michael
USA
2057
43
Zhang, Alex
USA
2032
44
Anand, Vignesh
USA
2027
45
Abraham, John Z
USA
2026
46
Liu, Zachary Hankun
CAN
2022
47
Xia, Joshua
USA
2012
48
WFM
Dhyana, Patel
IND
2010
49
Quirke, Jeffrey
USA
1980
50
Rambha, Hemachandra
USA
1973
51
FM
Van Meter, Lester
USA
1904
52
Rahul, Mynala
IND
1837