UMBC's chess team is headed back to the Final Four of College Chess
this weekend, April 4-6, to face off against rival University of Texas,
Dallas, the University of Chicago and Miami Dade Community College. The
three-round team round-robin event will take place in Mami at the World
Chess Hall of Fame
You can follow the event and games, move-by-move, from the US Chess
Federation's US Chess OnLine web site www.uschess.org.
The University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Chess Team is the 2002 Pan-American
Intercollegiate Team Chess Champion. The team's 2002 victory marks
UMBC's
sixth championship in the past seven years, securing their place as
one of the most dominating college chess teams in the history of the
tournament.
More than thirty universities, including Stanford, Princeton, MIT and the University
of Chicago, sent teams to the 2002 Pan Am competition in Miami. International teams
included Catholic University of Peru, the University of Toronto and the University
of Puerto Rico. The UMBC and UT Dallas teams represent two of the most powerful in
the history of this event.
For the second consecutive year UMBC and the University of Texas,
Dallas faced off in the fourth round and tied the match. Both teams
won all of their other matches, making them co-champions once again.
Other teams in the competition included MIT, Stanford, and the
University of Chicago.
The Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Tournament is the largest and most
prestigious college chess tournament in the Western Hemisphere. Each
year, Universities from around the United States, Canada, and various
Latin American countries send their top players to compete for the
title, "Pan-Am Intercollegiate Champion."
