SPICE 3rd GM in 6 months

Final position for the GM title

IM Gabor Papp has just earned his 3rd and final GM norm! He is the 3rd Texas Tech Knight Raider in the past 6 months to become a GM (Davorin Kuljasevic and Gergely Antal).

Congratulations to GM Papp!! We are all very proud of you!



Here are his results :

Kolo	SNo		Ime	RtgI	FED	Bod.	Rez.
1	41	FM	Đurović Goran	2328	CRO	4,0	s 1
2	3	GM	Stević Hrvoje	2621	CRO	4,5	w ½
3	5	GM	Kovačević Aleksandar	2594	SRB	5,5	s ½
4	10	GM	Sedlak Nikola	2546	SRB	5,0	w 1
5	1	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2680	HUN	5,5	s 0
6	2	GM	Predojević Borki	2632	BIH	5,5	w ½
7	23	IM	Kovačević Blažimir	2447	CRO	4,0	s 1
8	14	GM	Jovanović Zoran	2527	CRO	5,5	w ½
9	8	GM	Brkić Ante	2564	CRO	4,5	s½

Full tournament results here: http://www.crochess.com/turniri/zadar/10/index.shtm

Inching toward the GM title

Texas Tech Knight Raider IM Gabor Papp is closing on his third and final GM norm in Croatia. After 8 (of 9) rounds, his performance is 2642. He needs a draw against GM Brkić Ante with Black in the final round to clinch his GM title.

If he is successful, he would be the 3rd Texas Tech Knight Raider in the past 6 months to become a GM (Davorin Kuljasevic and Gergely Antal).

Here are his results so far:

Kolo	SNo		Ime	RtgI	FED	Bod.	Rez.	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	41	FM	Đurović Goran	2328	CRO	4,0	s 1	0,76	0,24	10	2,40
2	3	GM	Stević Hrvoje	2621	CRO	4,5	w ½	0,37	0,13	10	1,30
3	5	GM	Kovačević Aleksandar	2594	SRB	5,5	s ½	0,41	0,09	10	0,90
4	10	GM	Sedlak Nikola	2546	SRB	5,0	w 1	0,47	0,53	10	5,30
5	1	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2680	HUN	5,5	s 0	0,29	-0,29	10	-2,90
6	2	GM	Predojević Borki	2632	BIH	5,5	w ½	0,36	0,14	10	1,40
7	23	IM	Kovačević Blažimir	2447	CRO	4,0	s 1	0,61	0,39	10	3,90
8	14	GM	Jovanović Zoran	2527	CRO	5,5	w ½	0,50	0,00	10	0,00
9	8	GM	Brkić Ante	2564	CRO	4,5	s

Full tournament results here: http://www.crochess.com/turniri/zadar/10/index.shtm

Knight Raider success in St. Louis

Texas Tech Knight Raider IM Istvan Sipos (Hungary) just completed the Thanksgiving Open in St. Louis. He gained a whopping 63 points going from 2413 to 2476! In the final 4 rounds, he had to face 3 GMs and 1 IM, beating GM Finegold, drawing GM Gareev and IM Zivanic, while yielding the only loss to GM Shulman.

TAIMOOR NOOR 1899 W
JIM GEARY 2051 W
GM BENJAMIN P FINEGOLD 2561 W
GM YURY SHULMAN 2706 L
IM MARKO ZIVANIC 2567 D
GM TIMUR GAREYEV 2672 D

Congratulations to IM Sipos for a fantastic performance!