Congrats to Daniel D Shen (1645) on scoring 7.5 out of 9 at the 2023 World Open U1800! Daniel picks up the first place prize of $12,000 and should gain around 200 rating points as well!!
Georgia Tech A wins Division 2 of the Collegiate Chess League! Up 8-4 against Lviv State University of Physical Culture A, GT collapsed and lost every game in the last round to bring the match to 8-8.
We then scored 2.5-1.5 in Overtime to secure the $2500 first place prize!
Collegiate Chess League is underway with GT sending 5 teams. Recap after Round 2:
A Team, Div 2B: 2-0 (10-6, 14-2)
B Team, Div 4B: 1-0 (13-3, rescheduled)
C Team, Div 7A: 2-0 (8-8 + 4-0*, 12.5-3.5)
D Team, Div 11B: 1-1 (11-5, 8-8 + 3-5*)
E Team, Div 17B: 1-1 (4.5-11.5, 10-6)
Chess Club kickoff meeting tonight at 6:30pm in Klaus 2447!
First kickoff meeting not led by @DragonMateZ, so come meet our new leadership, hear about upcoming events, and play some casual games!
The Chess World Cup is currently underway…super exciting knockout format! Throwback to our own Spring double elimination knockout tournament which should be back again next year :)
the fun part of this account is our club president doesn’t use twitter so i can use this account to attack him
(jk jason is a goat president and has been doing a great job so far!)
The second matchup of the day is between Jason Li and Atharva Gorantiwar. Big rivalry matchup between Daniel Shen and NM Andrew Titus along with President Jason facing off against one of his opponents in the last election! First match starts at 4pm Eastern today!
Akshay’s team features former president NM Vedic Panda who is also fresh off his B.S in Computer Science and College of Computing Professor Abrahim Ladha!
Kicking off the Summer Chess League will be Will Fox and Akshay Raj. Will‘s team features NM Ganesh Murugappan fresh off graduating with a B.S in Computer Science and the infamous Stefan Talpa backed by his GM coach!
Congrats to David Paul Schmitz for winning $775 for his T-3rd finish at the Chicago Open U1900! David scored an undefeated 5.5/7 with 3 draws, including draws against the first and second place finishers.
@nigelshortchess wanna join the commentary team for our Summer Chess League? Looking for strong washed players to help as our top strong washed players will be playing in the event