College Chess Final Four
March 27-29, 2015
NY Athletic Club
This is the battle between a small private global university vs the 3 BIG state universities with BILLIONS of dollars in endowment. It is like David vs 3 Goliaths at the same time. These are the Goliaths who would love to destroy the little David.
This is why we must work extra hard to be able to compete against the establishment.
Webster #1 seed (rating order)
GM Liem “Man of Steel” Le – Sophomore/Finance – 2755/2676
GM Ray “Fearless Attacker” Robson – Junior/International Studies – 2750/2656
GM Vasif “Mr. CrossFit” Durarbayli – Freshman/Economics – 2676/2632
GM Illya “The Brain” Nyzhnyk – Freshman/Math 2748/2622
Alt. 1 GM Fidel “Pinar Romancer” Corrales Jimenez – Junior/Computer Science – 2605/2539
Alt. 2 GM Andre “The Shiny” Diamant – Grad/International Business – 2547/2472
Head Coach: GM Susan Polgar
Coach: FM Paul Truong
Assistants: GM Georg Meier, GM Manuel Leon Hoyos, Denes Boros, GM-elect Ashwin Jayaram, IM Vitaly Neimer
UTD #2 seed
GM Kritz, Leonid 2639
GM Yotov, Valentin 2613
GM Holt, Conrad 2622
GM Margvelashvili, Giorgi 2618
Alt. 1 IM Kadric, Denis 2618
Alt. 2 GM Berczes, David 2607
Head Coach: IM Rade Milovanovic
TTU #3 seed
GM Zherebukh, Yaroslav 2719
GM Moradiabadi, Elshan 2642
IM Gorovets, Andrey 2595
GM Shoker, Samy 2538
Alt. 1 WGM Heredia, Carla 2228
Head Coach: GM Alex Onischuk
UMBC #4 seed
GM Huschenbeth, Niclas 2609
GM Ringoir, Tanguy 2573
GM Kore, Akshayraj 2567
IM Bregadze, Levan 2579
Alt. 1 WGM Paikidze, Nazi 2349
Head Coach: GM Semon Palatnik