News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: DRAFT
CONTACT: Cory Chandler
Texas Tech Chess Institute Announces Donation
Pledge will fund scholarships, build public chess tables.
Texas Tech University’s Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence announced a pledge that will fund scholarships for recruiting chess talent and pay to install three public chess tables on campus.
The gift, given by an anonymous donor, will provide $320,000 in scholarships that Knight Raiders team coaches Susan Polgar and Paul Truong can use discretionally to attract chess players to Lubbock.
“The amazing attention SPICE has received from potential students from around the world is testimony to Grandmaster Polgar’s reputation,” said James E. Brink, associate vice provost of the Heritage Consortium for the Natural and Historic Southwest, who coordinates SPICE efforts. “Outstanding chess players are most often outstanding students, and this scholarship support will greatly assist us in recruiting a world-class chess team.”
Additional funds are also provided to support the installation three concrete chess tables between Texas Tech’s Student Union Building and Library in hopes that the public setting will create more exposure and enthusiasm on campus for the game and attract more student players.
Polgar is a winner of four women’s world chess championships and five Olympic gold medals and at the age of 21 was the first woman to earn the Grandmaster Title.
SPICE promotes chess as academic and outreach tool and provides an almost unprecedented forum for academic research on the game.
CONTACT: Hal Karlsson, advisor, Knight Raiders Chess Club; Paul Truong, director of marketing and public relations, SPICE, Texas Tech University, (806) 392-0758 or chess@ttu.edu.
Since Susan can do all of this, just think what she can do with a new chess organization that would replace the USCF!!!! And, finally, have an organization that ins’t always bankrupt and actually cares for American chess.
I really hope when the new organization gets off the ground, Susan will be amongst the leaders. She’s prover time and again…she is a leader and can make things happen.
REPLACE THE USCF!
Lafferty,
She is the fist woman to earn the MALE GM title.
Are you Dumb and stupid too?
Sheesh
Gaprindashvile was awarded the GM title. She didn’t earn the GM title. She never made 2500 and she never had 3 GM norms. GM Polgar earned it fair and square.
Let’s see if Lafferty can name the 3 norms Gaprindashvili earned and show which list did Gaprindashvili was over 2500? She didn’t make but the Soviet run FIDE gave it to her. They’re the same one who awarded 100 points to Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze and others to make sure GM Polgar wouldn’t be #1.