Round 2 results Table White Fed. Rating Black Fed. Rating Result 1 GM Margvelashvili, Giorgi GEO 2547 IM Gerzhoy, Leonid CAN 2489 1-0 2 GM Finegold, Benjamin USA 2505 IM Young, Angelo PHI 2321 1-0 3 IM Arnold, Marc...
Buzzer-beater clinches chess title for Texas Tech SPICE
SANDS: Buzzer-beater clinches chess title for Texas TechBy David R. SandsThe Washington TimesTuesday, April 10, 2012 To the disappointment of basketball fans everywhere, this year’s hardwood version of the collegiate Final Four featured no buzzer-beaters, no last-minute 3-pointers to...
Unprecedented chess move to Webster
National championship chess team bolts for new universityBy Chris ChaseYahoo SportsMon Apr 09 12:07pm EDT The Texas Tech coach and her seven chessmasters who won their second straight national championship this month will all return next year to defend...
Susan Polgar Nationwide Open for Boys and Girls
THE SUSAN POLGAR FOUNDATION’S NATIONWIDE OPEN FOR GIRLS & BOYS (K-12) A Fantastic Tournament in a Great Location! http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament20.shtml June 1 – 3, 2012(Friday – Sunday *** SAVE THE DATES!!) Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome330 Loyola Ave.New Orleans, LA 70112The...
Susan Polgar Nationwide Open for Boys and Girls
THE SUSAN POLGAR FOUNDATION’S NATIONWIDE OPEN FOR GIRLS & BOYS (K-12) A Fantastic Tournament in a Great Location! http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament20.shtml June 1 – 3, 2012(Friday – Sunday *** SAVE THE DATES!!) Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome330 Loyola Ave.New Orleans, LA 70112The...
Unprecedented move
Texas Tech chess coach switches schools, takes entire national championship team with herRick ChandlerNBC SportsApr 6, 2012, 2:17 PM EDT Imagine if John Calipari got an offer from North Carolina that he couldn’t refuse, and switched jobs … taking...
College chess has just as much drama and strife in the world of athletics as football and basketball
College Chess Champions Switch TeamsBy William Browning, Yahoo! Contributor NetworkYahoo Sports5 hours, 36 minutes ago College chess has just as much drama and strife in the world of athletics as football and basketball. Evidence of this can be found...
St. Louis, the capital of chess
Published on Apr 5, 2012 by AssociatedPress It was a brazen move even in the competitive world of college recruiting: Hire a national champion coach and bring along all the top members of the team, too. But this wasn’t...
Queen’s Gambit
Queen’s gambit MAKE THAT “ACCEPTED” Imagine a champion college football team packing up and switching universities to stay with its coach. That is just what happened in the world of collegiate chess. Source: http://hamptonroads.com Chess Daily News from Susan...
We are one family
Texas Tech Chess Champs Decamp With Coach to New CollegeBy Ashton MarraApr 6, 2012 2:36pmABC News The reigning queen of college chess, fresh from a second straight national championship with her Texas Tech team, is decamping for another college...