2 state titles for TTU Knight Raiders Chess Team

The Texas Tech University Knight Raiders A team just captured two Texas State Collegiate Championships. International Masters Gergely Antal and Davorin Kuljasevic captured 1st and 2nd in the individual competition.

Together with International Master Gabor Papp and Chase Watters, the Knight Raiders A team captured the state team title on tiebreaks over the powerful UT Brownsville team, led by the top seed GM Mauricio Flores. UT Dallas finished in a distant third and the Knight Raiders B team finished 4th.

This is the first time Texas Tech sends an A team to the state championship and this is also the first state title for the Knight Raiders. Congratulations to all the team members!

Top 10 individual standings:

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Total	TBrk[M]	TBrk[B]	TBrk[S]
1	IM Gergely Antal	2543	TTECHA	4.5	14	10	14.5
2	IM Davorin Kuljasevic	2581	TTECHA	4.0	14.5	10	16.5
3	GM Mauricio Flores	2663	BUTB	4.0	13	8.5	15
4	FM Max Cornejo	2405	BUTB	4.0	12.5	8.5	13.5
5	Arturo Gracia Jr	2094	BUTB	4.0	9.5	6	10.5
6	IM Gabor Papp	2597	TTECHA	3.5	14	10	16
7	NM Nelson Lopez II	2197	UTD	3.0	13	8.5	14.5
8	NM Yashodhan Gogte	2186	UTD	3.0	13	8.5	14
9	NM Bradley J Sawyer	2224	BUTB	3.0	10.5	6.5	11.5
10	Chase Miles Watters	2018	TTECHA	3.0	10	6	11.5
11	John K Hendrick	2185	HUSTTH	3.0	8.5	5.5	10

Top 3 teams:

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[B]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[R]	TBrk[C]
1	TTECHA	Texas Tech University 'A' Team - Cnt: 4	12.0	30	47	35.25	39
		IM Gergely Antal 4.5
		IM Davorin Kuljasevic 4.0
		IM Gabor Papp 3.5
		Chase Miles Watters 3.0
2	BUTB	University of Texas at Brownsville - Cnt: 4	12.0	23	39	27.75	35
		GM Mauricio Flores 4.0
		FM Max Cornejo 4.0
		Arturo Gracia Jr 4.0
		NM Bradley J Sawyer 3.0
3	UTD	U of Texas at Dallas - Cnt: 5	8.0	27	44.5	18.5	28
		NM Nelson Lopez II 3.0
		NM Yashodhan Gogte 3.0
		NM Chaitanya Vaidya 2.0
		NM Francisco Guadalupe II 2.0
		Medina Parrilla 2.0

Knight Raiders finished 2nd at Southwest Collegiate Championship

The Knight Raiders Chess Team finished 2nd at Southwest Collegiate Championship!

The 2008 Texas Scholastic Championship and Southwest Collegiate Championship were held in Houston at the Hilton Americas on March 8-9. The event drew 1,437 players statewide from primary to college.

The Knight Raiders Chess Team from Texas Tech University had the best ever showing in team history. The team finished in 2nd place behind the University of Texas in Dallas and ahead of the University of Texas in Austin!

Congratulations to the Knight Raiders for the fine showing and UTD for winning another championship!

Team members:

Chase Watters
Stephanie Ballom
Bryan Pernes
Walter Albeldano

Head Coach:

Susan Polgar

Texas State Chess Association website: http://www.texaschess.org/