Pairings for Round 2. 15th Annual Spice Cup Open: Open Bd Res White Res Black 1 IM Aleksandr Ostrovsky (2406 B 1.0 USA) GM Illia Nyzhnyk (2670 B 1.0 UKR) 2 GM Benjamin Gledura (2628 W 1.0 HUN) FM Dimitar Mardov (2373 B 1.0 USA) 3 GM Yuniesky Quesada Perez (2593 W 1.0 USA) Ryo Chen (2325 B 1.0 USA) 4 Hersh Singh (2100 B 1.0 USA) GM Brandon Jacobson (2492 B 1.0 USA) 5 IM Christopher Yoo (2485 W 1.0 USA) FM Eugene Yanayt (2034 B 1.0 USA) 6 Ryan Amburgy (2103 W 0.5 USA) GM Jose Martinez (2620 B 0.5 PER) 7 FM Seth Homa (2269 W 0.5 USA) IM Safal Bora (2432 B 0.5 USA) 8 IM Levy Rozman (2362 W 0.5 USA) FM Ezra Chambers (2184 - 0.5 BDI) 9 IM Justus Williams (2420 W 0.0 USA) CM Bryan Xie (2019 B 0.5 USA) 10 CM Samrug Narayanan (2395 W 0.0 USA) FM Doug Eckert (2221 W 0.0 USA) 11 FM Jonathan Chen (2302 W 0.0 USA) Julian Proleiko (2180 B 0.0 USA) 12 Aryan Deshpande (2097 W 0.0 USA) FM Andy Woodward (2290 B 0.0 USA) 13 Riley Shoaf (2031 W 0.0 USA) FM Anthony Atanasov (2245 B 0.0 CAN) 14 FM Evan Park (2236 W 0.0 USA) FM Alexander Betaneli (2154 - 0.0 USA) 15 Benjamin Shoykhet (1782 W 0.0 USA) CM Akira Nakada (2226 B 0.0 USA) ½ GM Elshan Moradiabadi (2553 B 1.0 USA) BYE ½ GM Emilio Cordova Daza (2534 W 1.0 PER) BYE