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Who are playing in the 2014 College Chess Final Four?

Who are playing in the 2014 College Chess Final Four?. Susan Polgar has the answers.

Webster University

Ray Robson
Georg Meier
Wesley So
Le Quang Liem
Fidel Corrales Jimenez
Anatoly Bykhovksy

Head Coach: GM Susan Polgar

UMBC

Niclas Huschenbeth
Akshayraj Kore
Levan Bregadze
Nazi Paikidze
Sabina Foisor

Head Coach: GM Sam Palatnik

University of Illinois

1 Eric Rosen
2. Michael Auger
3. Xin Luo
4. Akshay Indusekar

Head Coach: GM Yury Shulman

TTU

Yaroslav Zherebukh
Elshan Moradiabadi
Andrey Gorovets
Luis Carlos Torres
Faik Aleskerov

Head Coach: GM Alex Onishchuk

When: April 4-6, 2014
Where: New York City at the NY Athletic Club

Sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton
Chief Arbiter: Michael Hoffpauir

Published by chessmusings

Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.

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