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Checkmates: Chess phenoms share a college and a mastery of the ‘royal game’

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...
The Washington Post

At college chess’s Final Four, once-dominant UMBC is now the underdog

In the cutthroat world of college chess, University of Maryland Baltimore County was once as dominant as Duke in basketball or Alabama in football. UMBC was the first school to institutionalize ...
Washington City Paper

Chairman of the Chess Board

In 1991, Alan Sherman took over the chess club at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Since then, he’s built America’s greatest college chess program ever. Sherman’s school has gotten some ...
Yahoo Finance

This Billboard Promotes A College Chess Team Better Than Most Schools Tout Their Football Teams

Chess players are breaking the stereotypical school social order in a Missouri college, and the jocks are not happy. Webster University, located in suburban St. Louis, put up a billboard on a freeway ...