2010 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships

And the final four are - drumroll please...  ACH!  Not reported yet!  I just checked the official website and scores only through R5 are posted.

Okay - some news just flashed up (10 minutes later) - UMB-A and UTB-A agreed to draws on all boards.  Oh, really?   How can something like that be allowed? Why is this kind of obvious manipulating of game scores not considered cheating?   Ridiculous! 

And UTD-A defeated Texas Tech-A 2.5/1.5.  So, Texas Tech remains with 4.0/6 and may be bounced out of 4th place, depending on what the teams immediately beneath them have done/do.  I'll check the final standings later.

I must say it's surprising that games that started at 10:00 a.m. this morning still aren't reported.  I KNOW they haven't been playing this long!

Updated 8:35 p.m. local time:

Here are the final four and the final standings of all other teams:

Place Name/Team Rate Score USATx2 Pts MMed Solk
1 U of Texas, Dallas A (3) 2552 6.0 137.0 18.5 20.0 23.0
2 U of Maryland, Baltimore A (2) 2585 4.5 152.0 19.5 22.5 25.0
3 U Texas Brownsville-A (1) 2612 4.5 148.0 18.0 22.5 26.0
4 Texas Tech U-A (4) 2487 4.0 127.5 19.0 20.5 22.5

5 U of Maryland, Baltimore B (5) 2294 4.0 113.0 17.0 19.5 22.5
6 U of Texas, Dallas B (6) 2284 4.0 96.5 15.0 18.0 20.5
7 U of Toronto-A (9) 2155 4.0 78.0 15.0 17.0 19.0
8 U Texas Brownsville-B (7) 2247 4.0 76.0 15.0 18.5 19.5
9 Stanford U (8) 2211 4.0 75.0 14.5 16.5 18.5
10 Texas Tech U-B (13) 1995 3.5 60.0 13.5 15.0 16.0
11 Miami Dade College (15) 1940 3.5 52.0 11.5 17.0 18.0
12 Washington U (10) 2068 3.0 62.0 12.0 14.0 21.5
13 U of Chicago (14) 1983 3.0 61.0 11.5 13.5 19.5
14 U of Central Florida A (17) 1902 3.0 50.5 10.5 12.0 20.0
15 U of Texas, Dallas C (12) 2029 3.0 44.0 10.0 14.0 19.0
16 U of Minnesota (19) 1860 3.0 41.0 12.5 9.5 14.5
17 Yale U (22) 1672 2.5 58.0 13.5 12.0 16.0
18 Arizona State U (20) 1854 2.5 51.0 11.0 13.5 17.5
19 U of the West Indies (11) 2034 2.5 51.0 11.0 11.5 15.0
20 U of Maryland, College Park (16) 1924 2.5 49.5 10.0 14.5 19.0
21 Texas Tech U-C (21) 1774 2.5 36.0 11.5 10.0 14.022 U of Toronto-B (18) 1884 2.0 27.0 7.5 13.0 17.0
23 Reed College (23) 1475 2.0 26.0 8.5 10.0 14.0
24 Montgomery College (27) 1083 2.0 18.0 8.0 8.5 11.5
25 U of Central Florida B (24) 1327 1.5 20.5 7.0 10.5 13.5
26 Madison AreaTechnical Colle (28) 1022 1.5 4.0 6.0 9.5 13.5
27 Florida Atlantic U (26) 1300 1.0 22.0 6.0 8.5 12.0
28 U of Maryland, College Park (25) 1310 1.0 10.0 4.0 9.5 12.5
Congratulations to UTD-A, the #3 seed, for their perfect 6.0 score and to the top four finishers! 

Texas Tech is going to the President's Cup for the second year in the row - a wonderful accomplishment since Texas Tech has only fielded teams to the Intercollegiate for the past two years!  Well done, Knight Raiders players and coaches Susan Polgar and Paul Truong.