Kusakabe, Tadao
Current rating: 1513
| Grand Prix Utsunomiya 2002 (ONS rochester) | starting rating: 1536 | |||
| round | table | opponent (rating) | result | Δrating |
| 1sealed | 209 | Sasayama, Naomitsu (1380) | Lost 0-2 | -201516 |
| 2sealed | 288 | Miyata, Satoshi (1433) | Won 2-0 | +161532 |
| 3sealed | 157 | Osawa, Takuya (1532) | Lost 1-2 | -181514 |
| 4sealed | 260 | Nakajima, Hiroki (1483) | Won 2-0 | +171531 |
| 5sealed | 193 | Sugiyama, Kouichi (1524) | Lost 0-2 | -181513 |
| top | average opponent: 1470record: 2-3 | new rating: 1513 | ||
| Grand Prix Fukuoka 2002 (TOR limited) | starting rating: 1463 | |||
| round | table | opponent (rating) | result | Δrating |
| 1sealed | 22 | Okajima, Keisuke (1518) | Won 2-0 | +191482 |
| 2sealed | 73 | Yamaguchi, Teruyuki (1501) | Lost 0-2 | -181464 |
| 3sealed | 101 | Deyama, Hirofumi (1507) | Won 2-1 | +191483 |
| 4sealed | 71 | Ueno, Hiroaki (1533) | Won 2-1 | +191502 |
| 5sealed | 49 | Suzuki, Fumio (1526) | Won 2-1 | +181520 |
| 6sealed | 20 | Shinohara, Tetsuya (1606) | Won 2-0 | +201540 |
| 7sealed | 25 | Takagi, Takeshi (1652) | Won 2-1 | +201560 |
| 8draft | 11 | Shvartsman, Alex (1954) | Lost 0-2 | -111549 |
| 9draft | 18 | Shimizu, Akihiro (1579) | Lost 1-2 | -181531 |
| 10draft | 24 | Lin, Yi Jie Vice (1627) | Lost 1-2 | -161515 |
| 11draft | 30 | Uematsu, Kouichi (1486) | Lost 1-2 | -191496 |
| 12draft | 29 | Ishibashi, Satoshi (1541) | Won 2-0 | +191515 |
| 13draft | 22 | Murakami, Yuuki (Miyagi) (1685) | Won 2-1 | +211536 |
| top | average opponent: 1593record: 8-5 | new rating: 1536 | ||
| Grand Prix Shizuoka 2001 (ODY limited) | starting rating: 1500 | |||
| round | table | opponent (rating) | result | Δrating |
| 1sealed | 221 | Nishihata, Shunsuke (1500) | Won 2-1 | +181518 |
| 2sealed | 131 | Kanzawa, Yoshihiko (1518) | Lost 0-2 | -181500 |
| 3sealed | 164 | Nakano, Fumiki (1485) | Lost 0-2 | -181482 |
| 4sealed | 269 | Yamamoto, Arihiro (1430) | Lost 1-2 | -191463 |
| top | average opponent: 1483record: 1-3 | new rating: 1463 | ||