Took part in a fun-event in Corpus Christi, Texas, The Susan Polgar Giant Chess Set Tournament. (For teams of three)
The UT Brownsville team showed up, and they decided to have two teams one with their coach GM Gilberto Hernandez and the other with IM Daniel Fernandez.
The competition was lopsided to say the least with basically 400 rated players competing against GM/IM for the same prizes.
UT Brownsville finished 1st-2nd(Surprise! Surprise!)
We finished tied for 3rd-4th (4th on tie breaks), but the organizers decided not to split the prize money, but give it to the 3rd place team(based on tie breaks)
The 3rd place team lead by Bill Wheeler was very generous and decided to split the prize money with us.
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An adult player's quest to get an Master rating.
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