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This year the College Chess Final Four championship was played in the New York Athletic Cup. And to avoid time trouble with the US Championship that starts on March 31st in St. Louis the university teams played one week earlier than usual.
The three teams that tried to prevent Webster from winning their third title in as many years were Texas Tech, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and University of Texas in Dallas. But Webster clearly dominated the championship. They won all three matches, scored nine wins, conceded four draws, and did not lose a single game.
The Webster team during preparation
Tournament direction
The Final Four championship is played as a round-robin. Each of the four teams plays a match on four boards against the other three teams. Traditionally, two of these matches take place on Saturday, and on Sunday the nominally two best teams meet for the last match. This time the four teams could boast of no less than 17 grandmasters altogether.
Ray Robson
Round 1
Webster 3.5 - 0.5 UMBC
Niclas Huschenbeth vs Liem Le ½-½
Ray Robson vs Tanguy Ringoir 1-0
Akshayraj Kore vs Illya Nyzhnyk 0-1
Yasif Durarbayli vs Levan Bregadze 1-0
TTU 2:2 UTD
Holt, Conrad vs Gorovets, Andrey 1-0
Margvelashvili, Giorgi vs Zherebukh, Yaroslav ½-½
Moradiabadi, Elshan vs. Kritz, Leonid ½-½
Shoker, Samy vs. Berczes, David 1-0
Round 2
Webster 3.5: 0.5 UTD
Liem Le vs George Margvelashvili 1-0
Leonid Kritz vs Ray Robson 0-1
Illya Nyzhnyk vs Conrad Holt ½-½
Valentin Yotov vs Yasif Durarbayli 0-1
TTU 2,5 - 1,5 UMBC
Zherebukh, Yaroslav vs Huschenbeth, Niclas 1-0
Ringoir, Tanguy vs Moradiabadi, Elshan ½-½
Gorovets, Andrey vs Akshayraj, Kore 0-1
Bregadze, Levan vs Shoker, Samy 1-0
Round 3
Webster 3:1 TTU
Liem Le vs Yaroslav Zherebukh 1-0
Elshan Moradiabadi vs Ray Robson ½-½
Illya Nyzhnyk vs Andrey Gorovets ½-½
Samy Shoker vs Yasif Durarbayli 0-1
UMBC 1:3 UTD
Huschenbeth, Niclas vs Margvelashvili, Giorgi 1-0
Kritz, Leonid vs Ringoir, Tanguy 1-0
Akshayraj, Kore vs Holt, Conrad 0-1
Kadric, Denis vs Bregadze, Levan 1-0
Final results:
The winning team
Pictures: Susan Polgar, Paul Truong
