2012 PanAm at Princeton University

Ivy League and other top universities

The 2012 PanAm Intercollegiate Championship (also known as the World Series of College Chess) will take place at Princeton University on December 27-30. More than 30 top college teams are expected to compete for the prestigious national title.

There will be 3 universities from Missouri (Webster, Lindenwood, and Wash U) competing. Below is the list of some of the top teams entering this year's national championship:

Webster University

Harvard

Yale

Princeton

Columbia

Cornell

University of Chicago

NY University

Penn State

University of Texas (Dallas)

University of Texas (Austin)

University of Texas (Brownsville)

Texas Tech

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Arizona State

Washington University in St. Louis

Lindenwood University

Miami-Dade University

University of Toronto, etc.

The first PanAm Intercollegiate Chess Championship took place in NY in 1946. The top 4 finishing teams from the PanAm will qualify for the Final Four which will take place around the beginning of April 2013 in Washington DC.

Webster University will be sending 3 teams this year to the PanAm. Here are our tentative lineups:

Team 1

GM Georg Meier (Captain)

GM Wesley So

GM Manuel Leon Hoyos  
GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez

GM Anatoly Bykhovsky (Co-Captain)

Team 2

GM Ray Robson

GM Andre Diamant

GM Denes Boros

IM Vitaly Neimer

Team 3

FM Jake Banawa

WIM Inna Agrest

Maraani Kamphorst

Vanita Young

Paul M. Truong

Official website: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~chess/pan-american-championships