SPICE in the media

Hari moves to joint third in SPICE Cup chess
September 26th, 2008 – 6:53 pm ICT by IANS –

Lubbock (Texas), Sep 26 (IANS) India’s Pentala Harikrishna made the best use of a blunder from Polish Kamil Miton to register his first win at the SPICE Cup Invitational chess tournament here Friday.With that win, Hari, a former world junior champion, moved to tied third place with 3.5 points. The leaders are Victor Mikhalevski of Israel and Varuzhan Akobian of the US with four points each.

Results of fifth round: Becerra drew with Mikhalevski; Kritz drew with Onischuk; Hari beat 1-0 Miton; Stefansson lost to Akobian; Kaidanov beat Perelshteyn.

Source: http://www.thaindian.com/

Akobian Joins Mikhalevski in SPICE lead
By Jennifer Shahade
September 26, 2008
CLO

In round six of the SPICE Cup, GM Varuzhan Akobian won a sparkling game against GM Stefansson to join Victor Mikhalevski in the SPICE Cup lead. (Lubbock, TX, Sept 19-29) Before playing through the entire Akobian- Stefansson game in the Tarrasch line of the Queen’s Gambit, try to find his moves in the following three positions.

Varuzhan and Victor now lead with 4/6, but there are four players just half a point behind him, so it’s anyone’s tournament.

Here is the fullarticle.

2008 SPICE Cup – Round Six
September 19-28 in Lubbock, USA

Round six of the 2008 SPICE Cup, the highest rated 10-player chess tournament in U.S. history, is currently underway at the Texas Tech University Student Union Building. Israeli Grandmaster Victor Mikhalevski was holding the lead after five rounds, half a point ahead of the bulk of players. Victor is genuine chess globetrotter, having already visited around 70 countries when I last asked.

Update: Mikhalevski drew Becerra in round six and Akobian beat Stefansson to join him on the first place tie.

Source: Chessdom.com

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