... in chess, too. The Washington Post has a story and video about how U. Maryland Baltimore County's fortunes have waned as at least one other school rachets up an arms race in grandmasters and coaches.

Texas teams like UT-Dallas, UT-Brownsville and Texas Tech are perennial powers in this competition.

(For some more background, check out this earlier Parliament thread from last February.)

If Texas Tech can be a power, why not Rice? Yet one more failure to chalk up to RG.

(04-06-2013 01:02 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  (For some more background, check out this earlier Parliament thread from last February.)

Which, in all shamelessness, contained one of my favorite posts by me, regarding chess players who transfer:

(02-16-2012 01:49 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(02-16-2012 01:38 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  Will they have to sit out a year? (Or maybe stand, since they play chess sitting down?)

A year, or one match, whichever seems shorter.