In emails obtained by The Journal under Texas open records law, TTU administrators wrote that the university would be unable to meet Polgar’s stipulations. In February 2012, Webster University announced Susan Polgar and SPICE would be moving from Texas Tech to Webster.
Webster University’s chess team has dominated the 2010 decade. The program began in the fall of 2012 when Susan Polgar and Paul Truong came to Webster. The husband-wife team also…
SPICE was one win away from the record for the most President’s Cup victories and had not lost the cup since 2013.
St. Petersburg-born Aleksandr “Shima” Shimanov is hoping to succeed in multiple different ways. The graduate student is pursuing his MBA and is ranked as one of the top 200 chess…
Vasif Durarbayli has won three straight President’s Cups with Webster University’s chess team since joining in 2014. It might be hard to keep that streak going, according to Durarbayli. “Other…
The University of Texas at Dallas invited Illia Nyzhnyk to join their school and chess team. Nyzhnyk could not pass the school’s entrance exams so he began to look for…
Picking up chess to bond with his father, Grand Master Ray Robson brought experience to Webster as a gold medal-winning chess Olympian. A former chess World Cup participant and senior…
In order for SPICE (Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) team captain Ray Robson to potentially orchestrate a comeback to preserve the team’s chances at the President’s Cup, the team…
Junior chess grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk was among six players representing Webster University’s chess team in the President’s Cup tournament in New York. At a young age, Nyzhnyk started playing chess.…
Chess grandmaster Manuel Leon Hoyos became interested in economics while growing up around drug cartels in Mexico.
Webster’s chess team got strategy advice from the coach of Russia’s women’s chess team.
SPICE moves on to Chess Final Four, where they can win their fifth straight national title.
For the first time since 1976, the U.S. Chess team won a gold medal at the Olympiad. Two SPICE chess players helped lead the charge to victory.
The Webster University Chess Team added six new freshmen to this year’s team. Three of these players are National Scholastic Champions.
St. Louis University (SLU) and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis have teamed up to start the university’s first competitive collegiate chess team to play against SPICE.
The Webster University Chess Team won their fourth consecutive Chess National Championship April 2-3. Their victory ties a President’s Cup record.
Webster chess qualified for the Final Four National Championship with a four way tie for first.
