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The Texas Tech University Knight Raiders are national champions – again.
For
the second straight year the Knight Raiders won the President's Cup, a
premier event that is known as the Final Four of College Chess and
determines the country's
top intercollegiate team.
The
three-day event in Washington D.C. began Friday and concluded Sunday
with the Knight Raiders repeating as national champions with eight
points. The University of
Texas at Dallas and University of Maryland Baltimore County finished
second with 7.5 points each, and New York University finished fourth.
Susan
Polgar, Knight Raiders head coach and director of the Susan Polgar
Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE), is the first woman in history to
lead a men's Division
I team to two straight national championships.
"It
was total teamwork. Nothing was decided until the final second," Polgar
said. "We are very proud and happy to bring another Final Four
Championship to Texas Tech."
Knight
Raiders who participated in the tournament are GM Georg Meier, a
freshman finance major from Germany; GM Elshan Mordiabadi, a business
graduate student from
Iran; GM Anatoly Bykhovsky, a sophomore finance major from Israel; and
GM Andre Diamant, a sophomore economics major from Brazil. Also in
accompaniment are two alternates: GM Denes Boros, a sophomore psychology
major from Hungary; and IM Vitaly Neimer, a freshman
finance major from Israel.
The SPICE program is a unit of the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement.
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