College Chess Final Four Set

The College Chess Final Four will take place on March 30 - April 1 in Herndon, Virginia. It is sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton.

The defending champion and #1 ranked team in the nation is Texas Tech - SPICE Knight Raiders.

Texas Tech and UTD tie for the Final Four lead after 2 rounds

Team Code - Name - Score

1-2 TXTECH Texas Tech University, UTD Univ of TX, Dallas 4.5

3 UTBTSC Univ. of TX, Brownsville 4.0

4 UMBC Univ of MD, Baltimore County 3.0

Final round pairings

Texas Tech (+1) vs UMBC (-2)
UTD (+1) vs UTB (0)

Games can be seen on www.MonRoi.com

Photos from the 2011 College Chess Final Four in Washington, DC: https://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/2011FinalFourInWashingtonDC

2011 College Chess Final Four

Custom souvenir board created by www.GLOSgames.com

The 2011 College Chess Final Four will take place in Washington, DC from April 1-3. This will be the strongest College Chess Final Four in history. Each team will have at least 3 GMs + 1 IM or more.

Texas Tech
GM Davorin Kuljasevic
GM Andre Diamant
GM Anatoly Bykhovsky
IM Istvan Sipos
SM Faik Aleskerov

UTB
GM Timur Gareev
GM Axel Bachmann
GM Mauricio Flores
IM Max Cornejo

UMBC
GM Leonid Kritz
GM Sergey Erenburg
GM Giorgi Margvelashvili
IM Sasha Kaplan
WGM Sabina Foisor

UTD
GM Alejandro Ramirez
GM Ioan Cristian Chirila
GM Julio Sadorra
IM Marko Zivanic
IM Salvijus Bercys
IM Puchen Wang