42 players, 12 GMs, 13 IMs, $10,000 prize funds, zero entry, sponsored by Webster University and the Susan Polgar Foundation. All boards, sets, clocks, and even pens, are all provided at the tournament.
SPICE Cup photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/116302832360230031699/2012SPICECup
Round 1 pairings
| Bd | White | Res | Black | |
| 1 | FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (2377) | 0-1 | GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez (2605) | |
| 2 | GM Manuel Leon Hoyos (2603) | 1/2 | IM Jake Kleiman (2377) | |
| 3 | IM Zhanibek Amanov (2374) | 0-1 | GM Ray Robson (2602) | |
| 4 | GM Yury Shulman (2595) | 1/2 | IM Levan Bregadze (2366) | |
| 5 | FM Aman Hambleton (2348) | 1-0 | GM Alejandro Ramirez (2551) | |
| 6 | GM Victor Mikhalevski (2538) | 1/2 | WGM Veronika Schneider (2313) | |
| 7 | FM Kayden W Troff (2312) | 1/2 | GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2528) | |
| 8 | GM Anatoly Bykhovsky (2522) | 1-0 | FM Jouaquin B. Banawa (2300) | |
| 9 | WGM Anna Sharevich (2294) | 0-1 | GM Pascal Charbonneau (2517) | |
| 10 | GM Mesgen Amanov (2507) | 1-0 | FM Adarsh Jayakumar (2290) | |
| 11 | FM Carl Brandon Boor (2287) | 0-1F | GM Denes Boros (2492) | |
| 12 | IM Robert Mogranzini (2492) | 1-0 | FM Konstantin Kavutskiy (2287) | |
| 13 | WIM Inna Agrest (2204) | 0-1 | IM Darwin Yang (2485) | |
| 14 | GM Andre Diamant (2471) | 1-0 | WIM Carla Heredia (2188) | |
| 15 | Iskandar Aripov (2155) | 1/2 | IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2469) | |
| 16 | IM John Bartholomew (2446) | 1-0 | FM Hans Jung (2150) | |
| 17 | NM Nolan Hendrickson (2146) | 1-0 | IM Keaton Kiewra (2442) | |
| 18 | IM Justin Sarkar (2408) | 1-0 | Brian Ham Cassidy (2098) | |
| 19 | NM Spencer Finegold (2081) | 0-1 | IM Priyadharshan Kannappan (2407) | |
| 20 | IM Martha L Fierro (2387) | 1-0 | CM Matt D Helfst (1965) | |
| 21 | Tom Polgar-Shutzman (unr.) | 0-1 | IM Vitaly Neimer (2384) |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Rough start for some players.