Webster University strengthens its dominance

Webster Strengthens Grip on the Collegiate Game
By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
January 4, 2014
New York Times

The Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship highlighted Webster University’s unchallenged dominance of collegiate chess.

All three of the teams from Webster, which is in St. Louis, were among the tournament’s top six finishers. The university’s A squad took home the title and won all of its matches. Its B team finished in a tie for fourth, and the C team took sixth place on tiebreakers. (Over all, the Pan-American Championship, which ended last week in Lubbock, Tex., and is the qualifying tournament for the chess Final Four, featured 42 teams from 23 universities.)

Webster’s top team included Wesley So of the Philippines and Le Quang Liem of Vietnam, who are ranked among the top 50 players in the world. Georg Meier of Germany and Ray Robson of the United States, both grandmasters, are also among the four starters.

In Round 5, Liem beat Leonid Kritz of the A team at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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