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RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 18th time in 22 years, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team has earned a spot in ...
/PRNewswire/ -- For the 18th time in 22 years, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team has earned a spot in the President's Cup — collegiate chess' most...
That's a basic bargain we make with our students. students that are the best at chess shouldn't have to worry about whether they are going to have the opportunity to play against the best in the country. >> even hearing you make that sentence, we have to struggle to keep the best chess program in the country alive. i think, why should that be that you would need to struggle? you have shown the accomplishment. you have shown that you can do this often with students whom i think people would imagine couldn't do this. >> if i could show this to one person, i would be like mitt romney. i know the ...
Not the best chess player but i'm on my way to being there. now, as a high school senior, chess has taught me to strategize and it's taught me comprehension and it's taught me -- chess resolves around my life. so my success stems from chess, whether academic or after school. >> so accomplishment, humility, strategy, all of those things. that sounds like what a school should be doing and yet i was pulling moo i hair out last night watching the documentary. you kept having to manage with budget cuts and budget cuts and taking all of this that does this away. >> since 2008, our program has really...
Definitely has. >> alisyn: that's incredible. we know the sad part about your school is that it's facing a million dollars in budget cuts. it's facing the possibility that you won't have money to attend the chess tournaments. how are you going to go forward? >> there's a lot of talk now about the fiscal cliff. but unfortunately, we face the fiscal cliff every single school year. so ever since 2008 when the economy soured, we've really had to find ways to keep the program doing. we do a lot of fundraising, we ask for donors and support. it's my job to make sure the kids still have that right to...