$1 million program proposal made by Susan Polgar to Texas Tech, documents reveal
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.
Liem Quang Le spreads his passion for chess through coaching
Liem Quang Le, Webster University's new head chess coach, began playing chess at 6 years old and became a Grandmaster at 15.
One day in...
Grandmaster and former student Liem Quang Le to be next chess coach
Grandmaster Liem Quang Le is the top-rated player in his home country of Vietnam and a former chess player at Webster. He will become...
Chess coach Susan Polgar to retire from Webster
Susan Polgar and her husband, assistant chess coach Paul Truong, are planning on moving to Florida. Liem Quang Le, one of Polgar's former students,...
Chess team wins Pan-American Championship
Webster's two chess teams - "A" team and "B" team - competed against 57 other teams. The "A" team won first place, and the...
The Decade of Checkmates
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...
SPICE loses first national championship in six years
SPICE was one win away from the record for the most President's Cup victories and had not lost the cup since 2013.
SPICE Profiles: Aleksandr Shimanov
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...
SPICE Profiles: Vasif Durarbayli
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...
SPICE Profiles: Illia Nyzhnyk
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...
SPICE Profiles: Ray Robson
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...
SPICE Profiles: Peter Prohaszka
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...
Ukrainian Grandmaster puts team first in Chess Finals
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...
Chess player founds Webster Economic Association
Chess grandmaster Manuel Leon Hoyos became interested in economics while growing up around drug cartels in Mexico.
Russian grandmaster visits SPICE
Webster's chess team got strategy advice from the coach of Russia's women's chess team.
Chess wins fifth straight Pan-Am
SPICE moves on to Chess Final Four, where they can win their fifth straight national title.
SPICE players help bring home Olympiad gold
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.