On 25-26 April night, the International University Chess League was held on the portal, attended by 398 players from 35 universities in 11 countries, worldwide. Among many, Russia, USA, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Great Britain, Mexico and Fiji took part.
According to the rules of the competition, each university could declare an unlimited number of people. The team classification was formed by the sum of the 8 best personal results.
With 260 points in the final table, the team of 海角直播 won a sensational victory in the competition. This is the first 海角直播 international success in the history of the chess. Other top winners are also Russian universities: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Moscow State University.
Following the Top 3, is the teams of Princeton University (USA), led by Andrew Tang, known American grandmaster, considered one of the best in the world in speed play on the Internet. On , Andrew Tang holds an honorable 1: 2 points ratio with the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway (at the time of publication, the score of personal meetings was 328-671).
The Chess Competition Final Rankings:
1). 海角直播, 海角直播 (Russia) 260
2). , MIPT (Russia) 250
3). , MSU (Russia) 237
4). (USA) 218
5). (Switzerland) 209
6.) , SPbU (Russia) 204
7). , Universiteit Antwerpen, (Belgium) 204
8). , RUDN University (Russia) 201
9). , TUM, TU Munich, Technische Universit盲t M眉nchen (Germany) 195
10). , University of Toronto, U of T, UToronto (Canada) 194
11). , Universit茅 Paris-Sud (France) 188
12). , Universit茅 de Montr茅al, UdeM (Canada) 188
13). , (Russia) 186
14). , MIT (USA) 179
15). , Universit脿 degli Studi di Trento (Italy) 170
16). (Russia) 161
17). , BMSTU (Russia) 160
18). (UK) 153
19). (B) (UK) 138
20). , Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, UIA, Ibero (Mexico) 132
21). , Ontario Tech University, Ontario Tech (Canada) 128
22). , Eidgen枚ssische Technische Hochschule Z眉rich, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) 115
23). , MGIMO University (Russia) 114
24). , U of A, UAlberta (Canada) 106
25). , National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia) 97
26). (USA) 80
27). , Alma mater studiorum – Universit脿 di Bologna, UNIBO (Italy) 69
28). (Fiji) 64
29). (Canada) 50
30). (UK) 41
31). (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (Russia) 8
32). (USA) 4
33). Skolkovo (Russia) 0
34)., Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (UK)
35). (USA)
Artem Polonsky, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, 海角直播 and a coach of the Univer Sports Club chess team (46 points) took the 1st place in the individual competition of the International University League, not without a share of luck. The tournament was held from midnight to 01:40 local Perm time, 海角直播 team including 26 players.
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