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08/25/07 - The Penn State Chess Team congratulates Stephen Hlywak on becoming the new Club President and Team Captain.
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04/26/2007 - We will be
nominating new officers at tonight's meeting. Please try to attend.
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04/19/2007 - All of Penn
State sends out their thoughts and prayers to all residents of
Virginia Tech. Penn State will be holding a memorial service on
Thursday, April 19th to pay tribute to the victims of the
shooting. There are also going to be many fundraisers and
events to help support Virginia Tech this weekend 'Blue/White'
weekend, during the Blue/White game. The Chess Club is
planning to host a tournament in the near future to help support VT.
More details in the coming week.
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04/19/2007
- Please attend the club meeting on Thursday if you are interested
in running for an office position for the upcoming 2007-2008
academic year. Elections will take place next Thursday, April
26th.
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03/28/2007
- Download
Steve Hlywak's Chess Team Rap!
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03/28/2007
- New updates in Team, Tournaments, and Results sections.
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02/19/2007
- Penn State Chess Team finished with a score of 3.5/6 at the United
States Amateur Team East tournament (USATE) and finished as the 6th
College/University.
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02/16/2007
- Linares/Morelia Super GM Tournament has started. Considered one of
the top three chess tournaments of the year, Linares/Morelia pits 8
super-GMs against each other in Mexico for half the event, and then
Spain for the other half.
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01/18/2007
- First Chess Club meeting of the Spring Semester and the new year!
Come on down to the meeting for some chess and also we will talk
about the USATE tournament coming up.
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11/26/2006
- Penn State Chess Team takes first place at National Chess
Congress! The team was led by Emily Chu and Aaron Nicely, who won
their respective sections with 5 and 5.5/6 points. Stephen Hlywak
finished in 2nd in his section with 5/6, while Michael Johnson
finished with a very strong 4.5/6. We will have more results and
photos coming soon.
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11/16/2006
- Last Chess Club meeting before the Team travels to Philadelphia
for National Chess Congress. All team members who are traveling to
NCC are required to attend this meeting to finalize travel,
registration and lodging plans.
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11/2/2006
- We will discuss details on National Chess Congress. All members
who have been contacted to participate should try to attend. There
is now one spot available (due to a cancellation) to go to the
competition. If you are interested, please email Derek Fisher at dmf248@psu.edu.
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10/19/2006
- Unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts and hubapalooza, the
Penn State Chess Club was not able to meet last week. We apologize
to those who were unaware of this conflict.
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10/4/2006
- Vladimir Kramnik is the new Unified World Chess Champion!
Kramnik defeated Topalov 2.5-1.5 in tiebreaks, by defeating him in
the last tiebreak game before blitz playoffs. Kramnik's next
match is November 25th, where he will take on Supercomputer Fritz in
a Man vs. Machine match.
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9/25/2006
- The Unified World Championship Match between Veselin Topalov and
Vladimir Kramnik is underway in Elista. Currently their is much
controversy in the match as Topalov filed complaints and threatened
to pull out of the event because of a 'toilet' dispute. Many GM's
and players worldwide have pledged their support for Vladimir
Kramnik, saying Topalov was out of line and acted in a classless
manner with what proved to be baseless and completely false
accusations. For live updates and latest stories of the match, Click
Here!
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9/21/2006
- Next chess club meeting. Tryouts for Chess Team will be discussed.
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9/14/2006
- 27 people attended our second meeting and we also had dominos pizza
and soda!
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9/10/2006
- The new web page is slowly coming together and should be completed by
the October.
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9/07/2006
- First meeting of the Fall semester was held at the hub lower level at
the bottom of the stairs. We had a nice turnout and thank everyone for
coming!
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9/05/2006
- First day of the 2006 Fall Semester at Penn State.
