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In other chess news, Victor Wenbanyama went 1-2 playing chess in Washington Square Park.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/nba-victor-we..._permalink

BC

Some more chess news:

Junior Carissa Yip has had an eventful fall:
First, playing Board 2 for the US olympic team she helped lead the team to a bronze medal (outscoring our ranking) by capturing an individual gold medal
Second, she captured her third US womans chess championship
Third, she moved up to be currently ranked the #1 US woman's chess player (#36 in the world)
and Fourth she was the top US woman in the recent  FIDE world blitz championship (top 8)

Currently the Stanford team is playing in the Pan Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and seeded 7th.  It looks like we have picked up a couple of strong Grandmasters the past few years (Carissa is playing on our third board--each team plays four players per round, best of four wins the match, total points affects tiebreaks). We won our first couple of matches but barely lost to a strong team in round three.  It's a six round tournament with the top 4 teams advancing to a final four.  My guess is that we will likely fall just short (the top 6 teams are really strong and recruit internationally) but it's fun to see us doing well.  

Here is an article on Carissa:  https://stanforddaily.com/2024/11/13/car...-champion/

and here is the Lichess link (they only carry the top 7 or so matches) if you want to follow along: https://lichess.org/broadcast/2025-pan-a...wBi#boards

Thanks.

The highlight of my collegiate chess career was finishing as the top board 4 (7-1) on the MIT B team at the 1977 Pan Ams. After retiring I've started following the game again as a fan and may start taking it up again.

Mine was a 2 hour draw against a guy I had no business sharing a board with.

[rudruff]

In other chess news, Victor Wenbanyama went 1-2 playing chess in Washington Square Park.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/nba-victor-we..._permalink

BC

Some more chess news:

Junior Carissa Yip has had an eventful fall:
First, playing Board 2 for the US olympic team she helped lead the team to a bronze medal (outscoring our ranking) by capturing an individual gold medal
Second, she captured her third US womans chess championship
Third, she moved up to be currently ranked the #1 US woman's chess player (#36 in the world)
and Fourth she was the top US woman in the recent  FIDE world blitz championship (top 8)

Currently the Stanford team is playing in the Pan Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and seeded 7th.  It looks like we have picked up a couple of strong Grandmasters the past few years (Carissa is playing on our third board--each team plays four players per round, best of four wins the match, total points affects tiebreaks). We won our first couple of matches but barely lost to a strong team in round three.  It's a six round tournament with the top 4 teams advancing to a final four.  My guess is that we will likely fall just short (the top 6 teams are really strong and recruit internationally) but it's fun to see us doing well.  

Here is an article on Carissa:  https://stanforddaily.com/2024/11/13/car...-champion/

and here is the Lichess link (they only carry the top 7 or so matches) if you want to follow along: https://lichess.org/broadcast/2025-pan-a...wBi#boards

Thanks.

The highlight of my collegiate chess career was finishing as the top board 4 (7-1) on the MIT B team at the 1977 Pan Ams. After retiring I've started following the game again as a fan and may start taking it up again.

Mine was a 2 hour draw against a guy I had no business sharing a board with.