College Chess History: SPICE team members winning 5 straight Final Four Championships (2 straight with TTU and 3 straight with Webster University) without losing a single match while maintaining the #1 ranking for over 200 consecutive weeks! And we did it with much smaller budgets than some other schools.
The secret?
Our students! They worked their behinds off. They take pride in being a part of SPICE. They bought into our training system. No matter if they were the bottom or top seed, they played to win every match, and they fought every battle as a TEAM!
Members of the 5 championship teams (and 6 final four teams):
2010 (4.5 – 7.5) – 3rd place: IMs Davorin Kuljasevic, Gergely Antal, IM Gabor Papp, Chase Watters (shortly after this, Davorin, Gergely, and Gabor became our first 3 homegrown GMs)
2011 (7 – 5) – Champions TTU: GMs Davorin Kuljasevic, Anatoly Bykhovsky, Andre Diamant, IM Itsvan Sipos, FM Faik Aleskerov
2012 (8 – 4) – Champions TTU: GMs Georg Meier, Anatoly Bykhovsky, Denes Boros, Andre Diamant, Elshan Moradiabadi, IM Vitaly Neimer
2013 (9.5 – 2.5) – Champions Webster University: GMs Georg Meier, Wesley So, Ray Robson, Fidel Corrales, Manuel Leon Hoyos, Anatoly Bykhovsky
2014 (9.5 – 2.5) – Champions Webster University: GMs Liem Le, Georg Meier, Wesley So, Ray Robson, Fidel Corrales, Anatoly Bykhovsky
2015 (10 – 2) – Champions Webster University: GMs Liem Le, Ray Robson, Illia Nyzhnyk, Vasif Durarbayli, Fidel Corrales, Andre Diamant