Ray Robson has clinched his second GM norm no matter how he does in his final game. Former Denker Champion Molner earned his IM norm after 8 rounds. Congratulations to both! Well done!
Round 8 pairings and results:
IM Robson – IM Shankland: 1 – 0
GM Kacheishvili – IM Mulyar: 1/2 – 1/2
IM Finegold – GM Izoria: 1/2 – 1/2
GM Mitkov – IM Ippolito: 1/2 – 1/2
GM Amanov – Santarius: 1 – 0
FM Felecan – IM Arnold: 1 – 0
Molner – IM Vigorito: 1/2 – 1/2
FM Kleiman – IM Sarkar: 1/2 – 1/2
IM Vishnuvardhan – Thaler: 1/2 – 1/2
FM Yang – FM Lee: 1 – 0
IM Young – FM Adamson: 1/2 – 1/2
FM Chow – FM Betaneli: 1/2 – 1/2
Fouts – FM Shankar: 0 – 1
FM Pitterson – Velikanov: 1/2 – 1/2
Matthews – Vaja: 1 – 0
Round 9 top board pairings:
IM Mulyar – IM Robson
GM Mitkov – GM Kacheishvili
IM Ippolito – IM Finegold
FM Felecan – GM Amanov
GM Izoria – IM Vigorito
IM Shankland – Molner
IM Arnold – IM Vishnuvardhan
IM Sarkar – FM Yang
Thaler – FM Kleiman
Santarius – FM Chow
FM Shankar – IM Young
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Wow! Wow! Wow!
Robson will be a full GM after SPICE. He deserves it.
Next year, let’s have all the teenage whiz kids at SPICE – Caruana, So, Negi, Hou, Giri, Robson.
“Next year, let’s have all the teenage whiz kids at SPICE – Caruana, So, Negi, Hou, Giri, Robson.”
We can call the event “The SPICE Kids Concert”.
Complely Bad Ass!
How to replay the games?
GZ Robson,
maybe next year the young guns will be so strong that members of the 2700 club will be too scared to come to SPICE and lose!