The United States Chess Federation - UT Dallas to Compete in Seventh 'Final Four' of College Chess. News Release News Contact: Jenni Huffenberger, UTD, (9. ![]() ![]() ![]() UT Dallas 2016 Undergraduate Catalog. Each student's culminating paper proposes improving an existing chess program or developing a new chess. 2016-17 TTU Chess Program event Schedule. Event Date Event Details; September 17, 2016. November Check with Tech Chess tournament: December 27-30, 2016. ![]() The same lineup made it to the Final Four last year. The teams earned the right to compete in this year’s competition by finishing among the top four U. S. UT Dallas won that tournament overwhelmingly. The winner of the round- robin Final Four, which will be held in the Dallas- Fort Worth area for the third time in the tournament’s history, will take home the President’s Cup chess trophy. The event is free and open to the public and is scheduled to take place the weekend of March 2. Centreport Room of the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Marriott South Hotel, located at 4. Centreport Boulevard in Fort Worth. Both Saturday’s and Sunday’s matches will begin at 1. Saturday’s second round will start at 6 p. And Miami Dade and Duke may not be favorites, but they can certainly be dangerous spoilers.” UT Dallas and UMBC will enter this year’s tournament “even,” according to Stallings, who is an expert- rated player and played with the University of Texas at Austin chess teams in 1. The UT Dallas team will be represented at the Final Four by two grandmasters on boards one and two — arts and technology major and sophomore Alejandro Ramirez and computer science graduate student Magesh Chandran Panchanathan. On boards three and four will be international masters Marko Zivanic, a junior computer science major and Drasko Boskovic, a junior business administration major. Alternates will be international masters Dmitri Shneider, a senior finance major, and Davorin Kuljasevic, a sophomore business administration major. Rade Milovanovic, who is an international master, coaches the UT Dallas team.
This year, he plans to hold special, closed- door training sessions the week prior to the tournament. Milovanovic likens the contest of UT Dallas and UMBC to boxers who “cannot wait to punch each other.” Stallings noted, “By adding two alternates to the usual four team members, the coach will make preparation by the other teams more difficult since they will have to practice and study for more possibilities. Some teams have no alternates, but we have bench strength, which the coach plans on using.” A special added feature to this year’s match will allow the public to view the games live on a large “smart board” screen in the lobby of the UT Dallas Mc. Dermott Library. The games will be projected, allowing team members to draw comments and diagrams about the chess pieces and positions. These interactive WI- FI sessions are free, and rounds one and three will feature analysis by UT Dallas masters John Bartholomew, Keaton Kiewra, Igor Shneider and Jacek Stopa. Fans unable to attend the games in person can view the matches live at the Internet Chess Club Web site, www. A program book with a complete listing of the teams and player line- ups is available at http: //chessweb. UT Dallas’ chess team is part of a much broader chess program that includes, among other things, on- line chess instruction for teachers and courses about the use of chess in the classroom as an educational tool. About UT Dallas. The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor, enrolls more than 1. The school’s freshman class traditionally stands at the forefront of Texas state universities in terms of average SAT scores. The university offers a broad assortment of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs. For additional information about UT Dallas, please visit the university’s website at www. Printer friendly version of 2. Final Four Program booklet.
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