Vietnam’s number one chess player wins 5th SPICE Cup Thursday, Oct 27, 2011, Posted at: 13:24(GMT+7) Vietnam’s number one chess player, 20 year old Le Quang Liem, won the championship title at the 5th SPICE Cup in the US...
Heart breaking loss
Leinier Dominguez Losses Spice Cup in Final Round Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:02 Havana, Cuba, Oct 26.- Cuban Leinier Dominguez’s first defeat in the last round of the Chess Spice Cup cost him dear as the event was finally...
Le Quang Liem Wins SPICE Cup
Le Quang Liem Wins SPICE Cup By Zachary Haskin October 26, 2011 Texas Tech University and the Susan Polgar Foundation hosted the 5th Annual SPICE Cup from October 15-25. This year’s festival had three Invitational sections, a FIDE Open,...
Robson blindfold blitz (on his 17th birthday) versus Trey Modlin
Ray Robson (on his 17th birthday 10-25-2011) taking on Trey Modlin (1900) in a 3 minute blindfold blitz game. A must watch! Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The Final SPICE Cup Standings
Here is the link to all the pictures from 2011 SPICE Cup (all groups). Here is the 2nd link to the rest of the pictures from the 2011 SPICE Cup. Final standings (3 pt system and traditional scoring system)...
Liem crowns SPICE Cup Champion
Quang Liem crowns chess victory at SPICE Cup Updated : Wed, October 26, 2011,10:56 AM (GMT+0700) Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem, the world number 25 with an Elo rating of 2717, crowned the championship title at the Spice Cup...
SPICE Cup Farewell Dinner / Birthday Celebration
24 players / volunteers enjoying a farewell dinner / birthday celebration (Ray Robson and Brett James) at Texas Land & Cattle restaurant. Photos from the closing ceremony / dinner: https://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/0SPICECup2011B Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
SPICE Cup photos
For winning the SPICE Cup A Group, Grandmaster is automatically invited to come back next year to defend his title! Congratulations! Here is the link to all the pictures from 2011 SPICE Cup (all groups). Here is the 2nd...
Liem wins SPICE Cup A group with dramatic final round win
Final round results GM Feller 2668 (8 pts) 1/2 GM Meier 2648 (14 pts)GM Le 2717 (14 pts) 1-0 GM Dominguez 2710 (15 pts)GM Shulman 2608 (7 pts) 0-1 GM Robson 2583 (8 pts) Final standings 1. Le, Quang...
Ray Robson’s 17th Birthday at the SPICE Cup
Knowing how much Ray loves to play tennis, I presented to Ray his birthday present before the start of round 10, a Prince tennis racket. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar