Tuesday, December 28, 2010

2010 Pan American Collegiate Chess Championships

The "final four" of this event will compete in Spring, 2011 for the President's Cup.  I'm blatantly biased and cheering for SPICE/Texas Tech's Knight Raiders.

Here are the standings after R2 - R3 is currently in progress:

Pan-American Team Champs 2010 — Team                         Wall Chart, Page 1
Name/ID                            Rate   Rnd 1     Rnd 2     Rnd 3
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1. U Texas Brownsville-A             |2612 |W15,4.0  | B8,4.0  | W4,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-
2. U of Maryland, Baltimore A        |2585 |B16,4.0  | W9,4.0  | B6,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-
3. U of Texas, Dallas A              |2552 |W17,4.0  |B10,4.0  | W5,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-
4. Texas Tech U-A                    |2487 |B18,4.0  |W12,4.0  | B1,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-
5. U of Maryland, Baltimore B        |2294 |W19,4.0  |B13,4.0  | B3,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-
6. U of Texas, Dallas B              |2284 |B20,4.0  |W14,3.0  | W2,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-
7. U Texas Brownsville-B             |2247 |W21,4.0  |B28,4.0  | W8,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   2.0   |         |
—————————————————————————-

Individual results (for Texas Tech-A only):

Texas Tech U-A
———————————————————————-
15. Kuljasevic, Davori                |2572 | P 76  | P 49  | —   |
13218291               Board 1 |     |  1.0  |  2.0  |  2.0  |
———————————————————————-
16. Diamant, Andre                    |2486 | P 77  | P 50  | —   |
14255502               Board 2 |     |  1.0  |  2.0  |  2.0  |
———————————————————————-
17. Bykhovsky, Anatoly                |2497 | P 78  | P 51  | —   |
14508330               Board 3 |     |  1.0  |  2.0  |  2.0  |
———————————————————————-
18. Sipos, Istvan                     |2395 | P 79  | P 52  | —   |
14486674               Board 4 |     |  1.0  |  2.0  |  2.0  |
———————————————————————-
 
Texas Tech B is currently in 13th place:
 
13. Texas Tech U-B                    |1995 |B26,3.5  | W5,0.0  |B20,0.0  |
|     |   1.0   |   1.0   |         |
 
Texas Tech C is currently in 21st place:
 
21. Texas Tech U-C                    |1774 | B7,0.0  |W26,3.5  |B14,0.0  |
|     |   0.0   |   1.0   |         |
 
There are 28 teams competing. 
 
I had to laugh upon reading an article earlier today from a Texas newspaper that talked about how cold and snowy it was here and how that particular team was packing heavy coats, etc!  Right now we're actually enjoying what we Wisconsinites consider rather balmy temperatures and hardly any snow on the ground at all - just a few inches in Milwaukee (although, to be fair, up north did get a lot of snow a few weeks ago and once it snows there, it stays until spring).  Better yet, instead of the usual overcast gloom we often have to suffer through during the long winter months, the clouds have cleared away by mid-morning the past few days and it has been SUNNY outside.  For people who don't live here, you don't know what a blessing this is!  Yesterday it's true it only got up to 28 degrees F and there was a wind out of the southwest so it felt colder and raw outside.  Today it nearly got up to 32 degrees F and the wind was not as strong, though still out of the southwest.  That's important because that wind is bringing warmer temperatures and moisture from the Pacific.  We may have 40's and rain by Friday.  Perhaps so many teams playing here from Texas brought the better weather from the southwest with them :)
 

Texas Tech Knight Raiders Group

Good luck to the Knight Raiders!  I hope all the teams, their coaches and supporting personnel have a wonderful time in my hometown.  The Crowne Point is a fine hotel, I think the players will be very comfortable there, and I hope they are able to take an extra day or two to explore Milwaukee a little. We've got first class cultural entertainment, fine ethnic restaurants, and the bar scene on Water Street downtown is jumping at night :)

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