SPICE Cup (2008)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Pentala Harikrishna, Alexander Onischuk, Gregory Kaidanov, Kamil Miton, Varuzhan Akobian, Victor Mikhalevski, Leonid Kritz, Julio Becerra-Rivero, Eugene Perelshteyn, Hannes Stefansson

page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Stefansson vs Harikrishna   ½-½ 23 2008 SPICE Cup D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 2. Akobian vs Kaidanov   ½-½ 16 2008 SPICE Cup D39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation 3. E Perelshteyn vs Harikrishna   ½-½ 39 2008 SPICE Cup D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 4. K Miton vs Onischuk   ½-½ 47 2008 SPICE Cup D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 5. L Kritz vs Onischuk   ½-½ 39 2008 SPICE Cup C48 Four Knights 6. J Becerra-Rivero vs V Mikhalevski   ½-½ 23 2008 SPICE Cup C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 7. Akobian vs J Becerra-Rivero   ½-½ 35 2008 SPICE Cup D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 8. Onischuk vs Harikrishna   ½-½ 30 2008 SPICE Cup D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 9. L Kritz vs Harikrishna   ½-½ 48 2008 SPICE Cup C48 Four Knights 10. Kaidanov vs Onischuk   ½-½ 48 2008 SPICE Cup E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 11. J Becerra-Rivero vs E Perelshteyn   ½-½ 19 2008 SPICE Cup B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 12. V Mikhalevski vs Stefansson   ½-½ 19 2008 SPICE Cup E00 Queen's Pawn Game 13. Stefansson vs J Becerra-Rivero ½-½ 10 2008 SPICE Cup A07 King's Indian Attack 14. Harikrishna vs Akobian   ½-½ 15 2008 SPICE Cup C02 French, Advance 15. J Becerra-Rivero vs Onischuk   ½-½ 21 2008 SPICE Cup C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 16. L Kritz vs E Perelshteyn ½-½ 32 2008 SPICE Cup B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 17. K Miton vs Akobian   ½-½ 53 2008 SPICE Cup D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 18. Onischuk vs V Mikhalevski   ½-½ 32 2008 SPICE Cup D85 Grunfeld 19. Harikrishna vs J Becerra-Rivero   ½-½ 47 2008 SPICE Cup D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 20. J Becerra-Rivero vs Kaidanov   ½-½ 22 2008 SPICE Cup C11 French 21. V Mikhalevski vs Harikrishna ½-½ 33 2008 SPICE Cup D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 22. Akobian vs Onischuk   ½-½ 26 2008 SPICE Cup D56 Queen's Gambit Declined 23. E Perelshteyn vs K Miton   ½-½ 27 2008 SPICE Cup B32 Sicilian 24. L Kritz vs K Miton   ½-½ 22 2008 SPICE Cup B12 Caro-Kann Defense 25. V Mikhalevski vs Akobian ½-½ 28 2008 SPICE Cup D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav  page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 5 OF 5 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-28-08    Goran: <unsound>, Mikhalevski reached exactly the same position against I.Karim at the Gibraltar Open and continued playing. It still ended in a draw, but the game was also interesting. Sep-28-08    unsound: <Goran> Thanks, that's interesting: V Mikhalevski vs I Karim, 2008 I guess this latest is an indication that there are no reliable improvements to be found for white after 29.a4. Sep-28-08    sisyphus: It looks like Leonid Kritz will take the cup based on tiebreaks. He held off Varuzhan Akobian in a final-round meeting of the leaders. Sep-28-08    bharatiy: does anyone know who has the cup for sure? Sep-28-08    sisyphus: The way I figure it, Kritz, Akobian, Onischuk, and Harikrisna finished with 5.5; but Kritz had five Blacks and the others had four. Sep-28-08    Ragh: Hearty Congratulations to Pentala Harikrishna from India, for clinching the SPICE Cup after a spectacular final round victory and finishing at 5.5/9 points. Sep-28-08    Xeroxx: Hello ilikefroots Sep-28-08    shr0pshire: First place only achieved 5.5 points? Only parity or laziness can achieve that. I am inclined it to think it was the latter. Sep-28-08    sisyphus: Ok, let me get it straight: Harikrishna, Onischuk, and Kritz had five Blacks. Sonneborn-Berger scores: Harikrishna 23.25 Onischuk 23.0 Kritz 22.5 A very competitive field! Sep-29-08    tsj2000: Great news Congrats Harikrishna! You made all Indians proud!! You deserve it and keep your good work going in future events! Sep-29-08    Stonehenge: <Sep-25-08 tsj2000: What a shameful performance by Harikrishna, when other Indians are shining at world level.> Interesting. Sep-29-08    tsj2000: Dear Stonehenge, that is called as motivation mate! after that harikrishna's performance improved!Harikrishna is indeed a talented player, but he needs to have the will to win.He has good opening and endgame technique and he can easily be 2750+ super GM if he works hard. Just watch him in Olympiad mate Sep-29-08    Stonehenge: No problem mate :) I like India and their chessplayers! Anand of course and Harikrishna and Sasikiran and Humpy for example. I'm Dutch btw. The other day I was on the site of Auroville, quite interesting! Sep-29-08    tsj2000: Oh nice Stonehenge.India is a great place to visit.Good that you visited closer to my native place and Indian Mecca of Chess CHENNAI City where Anand and Sasikiran hail from. I hope ur trip was nice and enjoyable! Sep-29-08    ravel5184: aeiou! Sep-29-08    PhilFeeley: So why didn't they play one of those ridiculous tie-break things? How does one determine whether a tie-break blitz match should be played? Sep-29-08    PhilFeeley: So it is possible to draw your way to victory - providing you get at least a couple of wins along the way... Sep-29-08    Slaven MNE: >So it is possible to draw your way to victory - providing you get at least a couple of wins along the way...> Well that is one of the good sides of 3-1-0 system. But i am afraid that is the only one... Oct-03-08    Super Chess Man: The spice cup didn't really have much spice now did it ? Oct-06-08    technical draw: At one time there use to be a Spice War. This what not it. Oct-06-08    technical draw: This was not it. Oct-07-08    Peligroso Patzer: Seems that the Round 9 games are still missing from the database. One of them was featured in last Sunday's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/c... Oct-21-08    savagerules: Talk about inflation! Supposedly this sad excuse of a tourney was the highest rated round robin in the US ever. Higher than the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966 in California?? Fischer, Spassky, Larsen, Portisch, Petrosian, and others played there. What a joke to compare this farce to the 1966 tournament and claim it's higher rated. There must be a way to force players to play for wins or chess deserves to slowly die of irrelevance, all I know I wouldn't pay a dime to see the mostly lame games like these in this Spiceless tournament. Oct-21-08    jon01: <savagerules> Yes, this was rather poor tournament. No superstar players involved or whatsoever. However, you could see some of US top players there excluding Kamsky and Nakamura. I was shocked to read that Perelshteyn had been the winner last year. Pathetic. Jan-02-09    Stonehenge: <tsj2000> Sorry, I meant I visited the website of Auroville. Not the place itself, alas. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 5) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 5 OF 5 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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