At the top of a new college pecking order

Texas Tech University is at the top of a new college pecking order.

Last weekend, Texas Tech won a chess tournament in Herndon, Va., featuring the four top teams from December’s Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship. The tournament, called the Final Four of Chess, was a chance for redemption for Texas Tech, which finished fourth in the Pan-American competition.

The University of Texas at Dallas, which won the championship in December, finished second, while the University of Texas at Brownsville was third and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, was fourth.

…With Texas Tech and Dallas tied, the third round was decisive. Dallas drew its match against Brownsville, but a win by Davorin Kuljasevic, a Croatian grandmaster, against Kritz provided the margin in Texas Tech’s victory over Maryland.

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