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2009 SPICE CUP Chess Festival, September 19-29, Texas Tech University

Ben Finegold earned his final GM norm and Danny Rensch his final IM norm!

3-way tie for 1st in A group: GM Rauf Mamedov, GM Dmitry Andreikin & GM Yuriy Kuzubov

GM Yuriy Kuzubov wins the 2009 Spice Cup A Group in Playoffs!

3-way tie for 1st in B group: IM Ben Finegold, GM Vinay Bhat & GM Eugene Perelshteyn- 6 points

2009 SPICE Cup
The First Move

The SPICE Cup Girls

Ben Finegold

Chess Quotes

And for the chess-player the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named "combination."

-Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941)