Chess team earns first place in Southwest tourney
Posted: Monday, February 20, 2012 11:51 pm
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The Texas Tech Knight Raiders, under the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, claimed the top spot at the 2012 Southwest Collegiate Championship on Sunday in Dallas.
The University of Texas at Dallas placed second, with the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas A&M following.
This was the teams first Southwest Collegiate Team Championship title.
Participating team members included Faik Aleskerov, international master-elect, of Azerbaijan; Denes Boros, grandmaster, of Hungary; Anatoly Bykhovsky, grandmaster, of Israel; Andre Diamant, grandmaster, of Brazil; Elshan Moradiabadi, grandmaster, of Iran; and Vitaly Neimer, grandmaster, of Israel.
Bykhovsky scored two wins and three draws to earn second place on tiebreaks for individual honor. Moradiabadi finished in third place on tiebreaks, Diamant in fourth and Boros in seventh. Overall, none of the grandmasters were defeated, helping the Knight Raiders earn first place.
Source: http://www.dailytoreador.com
Very nice. Congrats and good luck at Webster.