SPICE Cup Chess 2024
The 18th SPICE Cup Open is taking place from October 13 to October 18 in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA. The tournament has 52 participants who will compete in 9 rounds Swiss. The top competitors include GMs Jeffery Xiong, Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Yasser Quesada Perez, Jianchao Zhou, Illya Nyzhnyk, Bharathakoti Harsha and Fidel Corrales Jimenez. Full list of participants in the 18th SPICE Cup Chess Open is available below.
Tournament director and organizer is SPICE Cup Program director GM Liem Le, who not only organizes the event, but recently reached his highest ELO and participated in the 2024 Chess Olympiad
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18th SPICE Cup Chess Open
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Xiong, Jeffery | USA | 2646 |
| 2 | GM | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | USA | 2597 |
| 3 | GM | Quesada Perez, Yasser | CUB | 2581 |
| 4 | GM | Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | 2576 |
| 5 | GM | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2573 |
| 6 | GM | Harsha, Bharathakoti | IND | 2569 |
| 7 | GM | Corrales Jimenez, Fidel | USA | 2564 |
| 8 | GM | Gazik, Viktor | SVK | 2560 |
| 9 | IM | Woodward, Andy | USA | 2545 |
| 10 | GM | Batsuren, Dambasuren | MGL | 2532 |
| 11 | GM | Cordova, Emilio | PER | 2531 |
| 12 | IM | Pham, Tran Gia Phuc | VIE | 2444 |
| 13 | FM | Putnam, Liam | USA | 2420 |
| 14 | IM | Chen, Ryo | USA | 2408 |
| 15 | IM | Atanasov, Anthony | CAN | 2396 |
| 16 | IM | Sargsyan, Anna M. | ARM | 2371 |
| 17 | IM | Williams, Justus | USA | 2361 |
| 18 | IM | Park, Evan | USA | 2353 |
| 19 | IM | Lee, Michael | USA | 2338 |
| 20 | IM | Wang, Tianqi | USA | 2331 |
| 21 | FM | Chirilov, James A | USA | 2320 |
| 22 | WGM | Marjanovic, Annamaria | HUN | 2302 |
| 23 | IM | Beukes, Dante M | NAM | 2254 |
| 24 | FM | Amburgy, Ryan | USA | 2253 |
| 25 | IM | Torres Rosas, Luis Carlos | MEX | 2247 |
| 26 | Oberoi, Shelev | USA | 2247 | |
| 27 | FM | Johnson, Donald | USA | 2244 |
| 28 | Proleiko, Julian | USA | 2232 | |
| 29 | WGM | Antova, Gabriela | BUL | 2224 |
| 30 | FM | Homa, Seth | USA | 2200 |
| 31 | CM | Wan, Joseph | USA | 2184 |
| 32 | FM | Eckert, Doug | USA | 2151 |
| 33 | Zhu, Linxi | USA | 2143 | |
| 34 | Jing, Andrew | USA | 2141 | |
| 35 | WIM | Bommini, Mounika Akshaya | IND | 2140 |
| 36 | FM | Yanayt, Eugene | USA | 2100 |
| 37 | Wilber, Matthew K | USA | 2081 | |
| 38 | WFM | Toshali, V | IND | 2073 |
| 39 | Jiang, Andrew | USA | 2068 | |
| 40 | Fang, Elbert | USA | 2067 | |
| 41 | Hoffman, Luc | USA | 2067 | |
| 42 | AIM | Takahashi, Michael | USA | 2057 |
| 43 | Zhang, Alex | USA | 2032 | |
| 44 | Anand, Vignesh | USA | 2027 | |
| 45 | Abraham, John Z | USA | 2026 | |
| 46 | Liu, Zachary Hankun | CAN | 2022 | |
| 47 | Xia, Joshua | USA | 2012 | |
| 48 | WFM | Dhyana, Patel | IND | 2010 |
| 49 | Quirke, Jeffrey | USA | 1980 | |
| 50 | Rambha, Hemachandra | USA | 1973 | |
| 51 | FM | Van Meter, Lester | USA | 1904 |
| 52 | Rahul, Mynala | IND | 1837 |