NEWS

(April 12) Kings of the Chessboard - blurb from the Dallas Morning News

(April 10) UMBC Falls to UT Dallas in Chess Final Four

(April 10) UMBC Chess Team Falls in Tourney

(April 7) Chess Team Repeats as Champ

(April 7) Chess Team Makes History With 'Final Four' Victory - UT Dallas is Only University to Hold Top College Titles for 2 Years in a Row

(March 30) Dallas elementary students vie for scholarship at chess tournament - articles from the Dallas Morning News on Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools tournament

(March 30) Click here to “See Chess Team members describe the UTD Chess Program” (link goes to YouTube)

(March 28) Chess Team's Next Move Could Make History - Final Four Win Would Give UT Dallas Victories in Top Contests 2 Years in a Row

(March 26) UT Dallas wins 2008 Southwest Collegiate Championship – UT Dallas took first place in the team championship with 16.5 points. UT Dallas finished ahead of other colleges, such as Texas Tech (2nd place) at 9.5 and UT Austin (3rd place) at 7.0. Others, such as SMU, played at the Hilton Americas in Houston, TX March 8-9. First individual place with 4.5 points went to Marko Zivanic (UTD). Tied for 2nd-4th with 4.0 points were UTD team members Davorin Kuljasevic, Chaitanya Vaidya, and Bayaraa Zorigt.  In 5th place with 3.0 points was Francisco Guadalupe.

(March 24) Townview Center Wins Team Trophy At DISD Chess Championship (Oak Cliff Tribune, 2-28-08) - Undergraduate Studies Dean Michael J. Coleman awarded a chess tournament winner with a four-year scholarship.

(February 25) Can Anyone Take Down UTD? - Dallas, Texas is rapidly becoming U.S. chess central with a dedicated scholastic community, a USCL championship for the Dallas Destiny, and now a UTD repeat in the Pan Am Intercollegiate. (article by IM John Bartholomew. )

(February 21) Skyline student Eduardo Ramos won first place at the fifth annual Dallas ISD High School Chess Championship. He won a four-year academic excellence distinction scholarship to the University of Texas at Dallas, which covers tuition and mandatory fees as well as a $1,000-per-year contribution toward living expenses. (from the Dallas Morning News)

(February 14) Educator to Discuss Chess for At-Risk Children - ChessFest, a celebration held annually by McDermott Library and the UT Dallas Chess Program, will feature a presentation by Beatriz Marinello, who will discuss “Chess and the Development of Social Skills for At-Risk Children.”

(February 8) State Proclamations NO. 73, 74, and 75 - Texas State Senator Florence Shapiro from Plano, Texas signs three proclamations recognizing the achievements of the chess teams from The University of Texas at Dallas at the 2007 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament.

(February 5) Chess Team Puts on DISD Tournament - UT Dallas chess team members and officials lent their time and knowledge to the fifth annual DISD High School Chess Championship, which the university sponsored over the weekend at W.T. White High School.

(January 5, 2008) GM Magesh Panchanathan clinches win over GM Pawel Blehm from UMBC

(December 30) UT Dallas Keeps Grip on Pan-American Chess Title - Triumph in Fifth-Round Nail-Biter Helps Clinch Win in 'World Series' Tournament

(December 9) UT Dallas Chess Team wins national scholastic team and individual titles in Houston.  Team led by Chaitanya Vaidya, FM Igor Shneider, and WFM Bayaraa Zorigt won first place by a wide margin. Vaidya, the only UT Dallas player with no master title, surprised all with a first place finish for the individual title.  There were almost 1400 scholastic entries in all sections of the event.

(December 18) Campus stars playing chess (Dallas Morning News, 12-16-07) - High school senior Rosa Flores responded favorably on a UT Dallas chess article featured in last Sunday Points in the Dallas Morning News.

(December 18) Two Tie for First in UTD Invitational (The New York Times Chess Blog, 12-18-07) - UT Dallas Chess Invitational was highlighted in a blog on the New York Times Chess Blog.

(December 17) Teammates Tie for 1st in UT Dallas Chess Meet - UT Dallas Chess Team colleagues Alejandro Ramirez and Davorin Kuljasevic tied for first place over the weekend in the university’s Grandmaster Invitational Tournament. View results HERE.

(December 17) Florida Boy, Just 13, Sprints to International Master Title (The New York Times, 12-16-07) - The University of Texas-Dallas’ invitational chess tournament featured in a New York Times story about the nation’s best young chessmaster.

(December 10) Play Like Ray - With just over half the tournament over, Ray has already earned his final IM norm! Can he get a GM norm?

(December 9) Players Aren't Just Good on the Board - "Problem-solving in chess employs the heuristic of understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan and evaluating the solution for reasonableness," says UT Dallas senior lecturer Alexey Root in a Dallas Morning News opinion piece.

(December 9) Grandmasters of the Game - Small colleges are making a name for themselves by becoming chess powerhouses.

(December 6) Talking With a Chess Master (Pegasus News) - interview with Jacek Stopa

(December 5) UT Dallas Chess Team wins transatlantic tournament (Pegasus News, 12-4-07) - The UT Dallas Chess Team took home the Transatlantic Cup last month, returning it to the United States by defeating top-ranked University of Belgrade in an international chess match.

(December 4) Chess Team Heading Back to the Boards - Grandmaster Invitational Drawing 12 Players for Nine-Day Tournament

(December 3) A Second Scottish Enlightenment? - article in Chess Life magazine by Tim Redman

(November 26, 2007) UT Dallas Chess Teams Wins Transatlantic Tournament - defeats University of Belgrade 11/5

(November 26, 2007) A Powerhouse Chess School-Stallings (NPR, 11-13-07) - The University of Texas at Dallas takes chess seriously. It recruits star players and regularly makes the list of the best teams. (Audio clip)

(November 16) Amon - The Chess King - In order to become a Grandmaster, Amon needed to attain three Grandmaster norms—chess results required to qualify for an official title...

(November 10) Chess Team Trounces Belgrade in Trans-Atlantic Rematch - UT Dallas’ chess players triumphed in a rematch Friday, roaring back to win the trans-Atlantic competition that they had lost to the University of Belgrade in a similar Internet competition last year.

(November 10) UT Dallas chess team wins Transatlantic Cup (Dallas Morning News, 11-10-07)

(November 10) Dallas Defeats Belgrade - article by Alexey Root featured on the USCF web site

(November 9) Rah! Rah! Block That Rook!

(November 5) Internet, JumboTrons and Cheerleaders: Not Your Grandfather’s Game of Chess - Europe’s Best College Team to Play Top-Ranked UT Dallas Team in Internet Speed Match

A day with the Grandmaster (The Hindu, 9-28-07) - The Grandmaster, now pursuing his master’s degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, was in the city recently to motivate young chess aspirants of Dolphin School.

(October 28) 'King's Gambit': Chess fan Paul Hoffman pens his memoirs - article by Tim Redman in the Dallas Morning News

(October 24) Alejandro Wins 2007 U.S. Class (The United States Chess Federation, 10-23-07) - UTD senior, Alejandro Ramirez, became the upper Class Champion at the 2007 US Class Championships held on October 19-21.

(October 18) Chess Champ to Compete in Turkey - Article from the Wylie, TX Murphy Monitor

(October 17) Kasparov Chess Foundation Presents Fifth Annual All-Girls National Chess Championships - University of Texas at Dallas Established Academic Scholarship Valued at $68,000. US Women's Champion, IM Irina Krush, to Make Special Appearances. [ link goes to press release ]

(October 8) A_Dreaming of Checkmate (Newsweek, 10-15-07) - Amon Simutowe learned chess by reading magazines. He was the Zambian national champ by the time he was 14...more

(October 1) UTD alumnus has 'grand' aspirations

(September 28) A_Rulers of the Board (Dallas Observer, Best of Dallas 2007) - Wait a minute, you say, Lewis Carroll may have had chess on his mind when he wrote Through the Looking Glass, but the game isn’t a sport, so why does a chess team rank a story in a Best of Dallas sports section?

(September 10)_LISD holds chess seminar – Root (Frisco Enterprise, 8-24-07)

(September 4) A_Zambian With Little Training Stands Poised to Make History (New York Times, 9-2-07) - Amon Simutowe, 25, of Zambia, is on the verge of becoming the first black grandmaster from the sub-Saharan region, and he could soon contend for the world championship.

(August 18) Chess becomes teaching tool - link to article in the Denton Record-Chronicle

(July 27) International attention on the 'Game of Kings' - In a torrent of knights, kings and pawns, amongst a stream of checkered boards, UTD business administration junior John Bartholomew is caught in the surge at the 2007 World Open of Chess.

House Resolution 1926 sponsored by State Representative Fred Hill recognizing the UTD chess team for their accomplishments this year [ pic 1 ] [ pic 2 ]

(June 17) Check Mates - Lure of the game on display in tale of trash-talking high school; article by Tim Redman in the Dallas Morning News

(June 13) Noted Technologist Magaly Spector to Join UT Dallas as VP for Diversity, Community Engagement - chess champion plans to improve accessibility for underrepresented group

(June 4) UT Dallas Mourns Passing of Jon Senderling

(June 1) UTD Breaks Jinx - article by Olin Chism featured in Chess Life

(May 18) European Chess Union, UT Dallas Partner to Award Scholarships - The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and the European Chess Union (ECU) will form an international partnership in intercollegiate chess to award two Academic Honors Scholarships to the winners of the Boys Under-16 and Girls Under-16 sections in Sibenik, Croatia, in September 2007. 

(May 5) Chess Team member Dmitri Shneider's commencement speech

(March 26) UTDallas Wins 2007 Final Four of Chess In an awesome display of power and mastery, chess players from UT Dallas thoroughly dominated their opponents to win the 2007 Final Four of Chess tournament, held this weekend in Fort Worth, Texas. 

(March 21) UT Dallas wins Southwest Collegiate Championship - UT Dallas defeated intrastate archrival UT Brownsville and 12 other colleges including UT Austin, SMU, and Texas Tech at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Dallas, TX March 17-18. This was the largest and strongest tournament in the history of the event. UTD took first place in the team championship with 16.5 points; UTB was second with 13.5 points. Tied with 4.5 points each for first place individual were IM John Bartholomew (UTD) and IM Daniel Fernandez (UTB). Tied for 3rd-5th with 4.0 points were UTD team members Jacek Stopa, Ali Morshedi, and Yashodhan Gogte.

(March 15) UT Dallas to Compete in Seventh ‘Final Four’ of College Chess - In a rare rematch, UT Dallas will attempt to retain its standing as the best team in U.S. intercollegiate chess later this month when it again takes on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Duke University and Miami Dade College in the “Final Four” chess tournament in Dallas. View the program here.

(February 19) U.S. Amateur Team East (USATE) Chess Championships - on February 17-19, a record 276 teams competed for the 2007 U.S. Amateur Team Chess Championship help at the Parsippany Hilton in Parsippany, NJ. Both the UTD White and Orange Teams were formidable contenders. The UTD Orange Team with a 5-1 score won the Top College award; the UTD White Team was slightly behind with a 4.5-1.5 result.  For more information, visit http://www.njscf.org/.

(February 14) David MacEnulty to be Honored During UT Dallas’ Sixth Annual ChessFest

(January 5, 2007) Chess and EducationL Selected Essays from the Koltanowski Conference, Edited by Tim Redman. "The intent of this book," Redman explains in his thoughtful introduction, "is to provide a record of where we stand in the field of chess and education at the beginning of the new millenium." The book is reviewed by Mark Taylor in the January Chess Life magazine [link].

(December 30) UT Dallas Wins Pan Am Chess Championship. Reclaims Mythical Title of Best Collegiate Chess Team

(December 27) Good Opening Can Be a Scholarship. New York Times. In the competition for the best students, colleges and universities are always looking for an edge.

(December 20) Longtime Rivals UT Dallas, UMBC Favorites In 2006 Pan American Chess Championship. World Series of College Chess' to be Held Dec. 27-30 in Washington, D.C.

(Dec. 14) Boskovic, Shulman Tie for First In UT Dallas Grandmaster Invitational

(December 11)UT Dallas Takes Top Team Honors At National K-12/Collegiate Chess Tourney. The University of Texas at Dallas took top college team honors at the 2006 National Scholastic K-12/Collegiate Chess Championship, held Dec. 8-10 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

(November 30) 2006 UT Dallas Grandmaster Chess Invitational To Feature Another Strong International Field. Former University Team Captain Yuri Shulman Top Competitor iIn Nine-Day Tournament to be Held Dec. 5-13 in Richardson

(October 20) A chess game of chat and mouse. An Internet battle between UTD and Belgrade for The Transatlantic Cup, was won by the University of Belgrade, 8 ½-7 ½. See the results of the internet tourney - UTD vs. Belgrade.

(October 16) UTD’s International Master Amon Simutowe wins the Jamaican Open. The 24 year-old Zambian star scored a perfect six points from as many games to take top honors

(September 18) 'Game on' to Serbian match - Sixteen boards. Thirty-two contenders. UTD's award-winning chess team will battle the University of Belgrade in Serbia in an Internet chess match Oct. 20.

(September 18) Checkmates not new for freshmen 'masters,' but roommates, college are - Three master chess players joined the ranks of UTD freshmen this semester, ready to balance classes, apartment living and the occasional checkmate

(August 25) U. T. Dallas’ Tim Redman Recognized By United States Chess Federation. UTD Professor Dr. Tim Redman, founder and director of the university’s internationally acclaimed chess program, received the United States Chess Federation’s 2006 Scholastic Service Award this month at the organization’s annual convention in Oak Brook, Illinois.

(April 2) UMBC Edges Rival U. T. Dallas In ‘Final Four’ of College Chess - Miami Dade Finishes Third, Duke Fourth in Tournament Held in Dallas

(March 24) New textbook for UTD Online Chess Courses: “Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators by Dr. Root” A Guide for Educators is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. It features lesson plans teachers can use immediately. From these units and lesson plans, teachers learn the basics of chess, and, since the plans meet academic goals through chess, they also learn that chess can be a part of reading, math, science, and social studies. An appendix showing how chess meets the requirements of curriculum standards is another plus.

(March 20) UTD to Renew Heated Rivalry With UMBC in Sixth ‘Final Four’ of Chess - UTD will try to regain its standing as the “best team in U.S. intercollegiate chess” next month when it takes on its longtime rival, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)...[more]

(March 20) Taking their break, chess game to Iceland

(March 10, 2006) Dr. Tim Redman and Dr. Alexey Root will co-chair a Chess in Education Workshop that is being co-sponsored by UTD and the U.S. Chess Federation. It will be held Aug. 7-8, 2006 - Oakbrook, IL. The Chess in Education workshop is eligible for continuing professional development units (CPDUs) from the IL State Board of Ed. For more information, go to http://www.uschess.org/news/press/uspr0609.php.

(February 22, 2006) Tim Redman to Present Lecture - Tim Redman, Ph.D., UTD Professor and Director of the Chess Program, will present a lecture entitled The Uses of Photographs in Modernist Biography: The Case of Ezra Pound, as part of the Spring 2006 Faculty Lecture Series here at UTD. The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 2 at 2 p.m. in JO 4.614. Dr. Redman will talk about how and why a writer collects and selects photos to accompany a biography. He will look at a few dozen photos from the extensive collection gathered for consideration for use in his life of the American poet, Ezra Pound. Versions of this talk were given at the 2001 International Pound Conference at the Sorbonne (IVeme) and at the 2005 Conference on Modern Biography at Yale, and it is scheduled to be presented at Oxford next year.

(February 20, 2006) U.S. Amateur Team East (USATE) Chess Championships - on February 18-20, 272 teams competed for the 2006 U.S. Amateur Team Chess Championship help at the Parsippany Hilton in Parsippany, NJ. Once again, the UTD White and Orange Teams were formidable contenders. The UTD White Team tied for First place overall with a 5.5-.5 score, and came in 2nd place on tie breaks; the UTD Orange Team with a 5-1 score won the Top College trophy. For more information visit http://www.uschess.org/news/press/uspr0602.php

(February 6, 2006) UTD’s Fifth Annual ChessFest Will Honor Chess Enthusiast Erik Anderson - ChessFest will feature a presentation by educator and chess enthusiast Erik Anderson.

(February 6, 2006) The UTD team captured 1st place at the 5-round Southwest Collegiate Championships in Houston, TX. Coming in 2nd was UT Brownsville and 3rd place was UT Pan America. For individual scores, tied for 1st-2nd at 4.5-0.5 was GM Timur Gareev (UTB) and IM Drasko Boskovic (UTD); 3rd-6th at 3.5-1.5 scores was IM Marko Zivanic, Jonathan Allen, WFM Lilia Doibani, and Marc Fuhrmann (all from UTD).

(January 20, 2006) UTD Senior Lecturer Alexey Root is the author of Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators

(December 30, 2005) UTD’s Dreams of a ‘Three-peat’ In Top Annual College Chess Competition are Dashed by Archrival UMBC - UTD ‘A’ Team Loses First Pan Am Match in Six Years

(December 16, 2005) Panchanathan Does it Again – Pulls Major Upset And Wins UTD’s 4th International Chess Tourney - Magesh Chandran Panchanathan, the hero of UTD’s upset win in the 2004 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships when he almost effortlessly rolled over the top-ranked player in the United States...[more]

(December 16, 2005) UTD To Defend No. 1 Ranking in Collegiate Chess At Pan American Tournament in Miami Dec. 27-30

(December 6) UTD Grandmaster Invitational Results

(November 17, 2005) UTD To Hold Rare International Chess Tourney at Civic Center and First Bank of Canyon Creek - As it has for three of the past four years, The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) next month will host a rare international chess tournament.

(October 4, 2005) UTD Chess Gets to the 'Art' of Things

(September 6, 2005) Morshedi Back with Comets

(Aug. 10, 2005) UTD Professor to Lead Texas Chapter Of Prominent Literary Organization - Dr. Tim Redman, a popular professor of literary studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), has been elected interim president of PEN Texas, an association of prominent literary writers and editors.

(July 13, 2005) Magesh Panchanathan Becomes UTD’s First ‘Home-Grown’ Chess Grandmaster

(June 24, 2005) UTD Student Wins Junior Invitational Chess Tournament - Daniel Fernandez, a 20-year-old sophomore and member of the champion chess team at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), won the 2005 Junior Invitational Chess Tournament

(April 11, 2005) UTD Gives Chess Scholarships to Students From California, Florida and Georgia - UTD awarded three separate full-tuition-and-fees, four-year scholarships to the top performers at the “SuperNationals” of chess competition held in Nashville over the weekend. More than 5,200 students participated in the SuperNationals, making it one of the largest chess tournaments ever held in the United States.

(April 6, 2005) For Second Year, UTD Chess Program To Offer Camps for Kids in June

(April 5, 2005) Game, set, checkmate - Roberts-Hoffman excels at tennis, chess, and electrical engineering

(April 4, 2005) U. T. Dallas Takes Second Place In Fifth Annual ‘Final Four’ of Chess

(March 10, 2005) ChessFest IV to Feature Leading Educator Sunil Weeramantry - ChessFest, an annual tribute to the world-class chess program at UTD, this year will feature a lecture by educator and former New York chess champion Sunil Weeramantry.

(March 9, 2005) The Final Four of Chess Has Become the Final Two - Stanford and Miami (Dade) Community College aren't given much of a chance in the upcoming tournament in Kansas. That's because UTD and The University of Maryland, Baltimore County never lose -- except to each other.

(March 3, 2005) New Grandmaster to join Chess Team - Selected as a McDermott Scholar for the 2005 entering class is Costa Rican Alejandro Ramirez, who was home-schooled, and at 16 is the third-youngest chess grandmaster in the world and the only grandmaster from Central America. He has traveled extensively, reads widely in English and Spanish and is a well-known public speaker in his native Costa Rica. Alejandro plans to major in physics or electrical engineering.

(March 2, 2005) UTD Team Honored by State House - The UTD Chess Team traveled to the State Capitol to be honored by the State House of Representatives. The bill (H.R. No. 556) was sponsored by Fred Hill of Richardson, Texas. View it here.

USATE (Feb. 19-21), New Jersey State Chess Federation Breaks Record with 2005 U.S. Amateur Team East. (New Windsor) 1,210 chess enthusiasts made up 286 teams to break a record for the 2005 U.S. Amateur Team Chess Championship held at the Parsippony Hilton February 19-21, 2005 in Parsippany, New Jersey. In addition to chess being the ultimate entertainment at this event, one of the highlights is the costume competition. Even if you are not one to experience the thrill of the chess competition...being a spectator could just be one of the most exciting times you've ever had at a chess championship! 2nd place overall: UTD Orange Team. Top college: UTD White Team.

Comets crowd all-conference teams (Mercury 11/29/04)

Senior forward Ali Morshedi (B-Team's Chess Captain)… picked by conference coaches as the best offensive contributor in the ASC.

(December 30, 2004) UTD Remains Atop the World of College Chess

(December 16, 2004) Shulman, Novikov Tie for First Place in UTD Grandmaster Invitational Chess Tournament

The UTD Invitational GM Norm Tournament

NEWS ARCHIVES

(December 13, 2004) UTD Chess Team Set to Defend No. 1 Ranking in Pan American Intercollegiate Tournament

(April 24, 2004) UTD Awards Full Chess Scholarships To Students from Arizona and Tennessee

(April 4, 2004) U. T. Dallas Takes Second Place In Fourth Annual 'Final Four' of Chess

(January 26, 2004) McDermott Library's ChessFest III To Feature Top Female Chess Player

(January 16, 2004) UTD Chess Team To Be Featured Monday On 'Daybreak' Newscast on Channel 8

(January 5, 2004) UTD to Sponsor First Chess Tournament for DISD High School Students

(December 30, 2003) UTD Chess Team Reclaims Number 1 Ranking By Winning the Top College Tournament Held Each Year in the Western Hemisphere

(December 15, 2003) UTD Chess Players Win National Tournament

(November 11, 2003) Six UTD Chess Players to Enter Expanded National K-12/Collegiate Championship

(November 6, 2003) UTD Team, Players Take Top Honors In Texas Collegiate Chess Tournament

(October 22, 2003) UTD Student Wins Major Tournament in Budapest

(September 17, 2003) U. T. Dallas Chess Club Offers Lessons to Kids

(July 30, 2003) UTD Freshman Wins Prestigious Asian Junior Chess Tournament

(June 11, 2003) UTD Student Takes First At Prestigious Pan American Junior Chess Tournament