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| It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well | ||
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News and Events
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Maryland Scholastic Chess Spectacular Open to any student grades 1-12. Coaches welcome to attend free instructional session. Spectators free and welcome.
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Chess Week! Join us in The Commons as we celebrate Chess Week 2008, a week's worth of events, activities, and giveaways leading up to the 2008 President's Cup, Final Four of Chess on April 5th & 6th. Events include an opening kickoff on Monday, March 31 with FREE t-shirts to the first 50 students who attend, a giant chess match between some of UMBC's finest chess team members, and much, much more. All events will take place on Main Street between 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm.Full schedule of events |
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2008 President’s Cup UMBC Chess Club proudly presents U.S. Intercollegiate Chess Team Championship For The President’s Cup. Featuring the four top USA schools from the 2008 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship (Pan-Am) April 5-6, 2008 UMBC Commons (Game Room, 2nd Floor) Article about our A-team in The Retriever Weekly: Mind games: UMBC chess Official website |
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2007 Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship The 2007 Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship just ended at Miami Dade College. The good news is UMBC placed second out of 28 teams and advances to the Final Four (April 5-6).Read report |
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Upcoming UMBC Chess Events
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Arbutus Middle School: "Chess for Success!" Chess with Eagle's P.R.I.D.E - on Tuesday, September 25, UMBC Coca-Cola chess fellows started lecturing Arbutus Middle Schoolers. More about the program |
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2008 UMBC Open-Alvin S. Mintzes Chess Tournament The nearest upcoming UMBC event, open to the public. Online flyer |
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Chess Club Photo Albums Finally! A Beta version of our photo albums page is up. More photo albums and photos to be added. Feel free to comment/report bugs. Any additional photos will be appreciated. All currently available photo albums |
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UMBC Chess Club Simultaneous Exhibition 2007 On Friday, October 19, GM Sergey Erenburg and Greg Masters gave timed simultaneous exhibitions against teammates of the B and C Teams as well as some additional club members. Visual impressions and games |
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ChessFest 2007 Last Sunday, October 14, UMBC held ChessFest event. Four UMBC Chess Fellows Sergey Erenburg, Pawel Blehm, Katerina Rohonyan and Bruci Lopez provided chess instructions to over a hundred of children from different schools of Maryland, Virginia and DC. The director of International School of Chess Dr.Korenman conducted a lecture for chess coaches. After the lectures, the public had an opportunity to enjoy a simultaneous matches against Sergey Erenburg and Katerina Rohonyan, followed by two exhibition matches. Read illustrated report with games |
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2007 UMBC Chess Championship The 2007 UMBC Chess Championship was won for the third consecutive time by GM Pawel Blehm, with a score of 4.5/5.0. He only conceded a draw to FM Tegshsuren Enkhbat, a teammate on the Baltimore Kingfishers in the US Chess League. Freshman Aaron Kahn scored an impressive 4.0/5.0 to tie for 2nd place with Enkhbat and Daniel Yeager, Pennsylvania's top junior player. The U1800 Section was jointly won by Carl Hudec and David Hevey, while Sophomore Alisha Crowley was the top UMBC student in the section. Freshman Helong Li won top honors in the Beginner's Section. Final standings |
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