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Caltech Chess Team Scores Division Win Second Year Running
January 28, 2021
The Caltech Chess Team repeated as division winners at the 2020–21 Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship, finishing as the top school with fewer than 5,000 students.
Caltech was represented by 13 graduate and undergraduate students on three teams, competing in a field of 59 teams from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In all, 273 players, including 29 grandmasters, participated.
The A-team narrowly missed out on the Division 2 title outright, finishing just behind Yale in a tiebreaker and ahead of other contenders, including Harvard, UCLA, UC San Diego, and Georgia Tech.
Hosted by the San Francisco-based Mechanics Institute, the tournament was held online this year for the first time. The tournament format was also modified to nine rounds of rapid games (25 minutes per player) instead of the six rounds of classical games (90 minutes per player) seen in previous y ....

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