1996 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships
FINAL RANKINGS

UMBC (The University of Maryland Baltimore County) won the "World
Series" of college chess.  Thirty-six teams from North and South
America competed in the six-round event, held December 27-30, 1996, at
the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.  The 1996
Pan-American Chess Championships were hosted by UMBC in partnership
with the United States Chess Federation.  After five rounds, with the
UMBC "A" and "B" teams tied one point ahead of the field with 4.5 points,
the two UMBC faced off in the final round--the first time two teams
from the same school have ever played each other in the final round of
any Pan-Am.

  UMBC "A" Team
   Board 1: Valery Atlas (International Master, 2570 est. USCF rating)
   Board 2: William "The Exterminator" Morrison (1995 Maryland Champion, 2460)
   Board 3: Dmitry Atlas (2395 est.)
   Board 4: Gregory Shahade (National High School Co-Champion, 2392)
   1st Alternate; Pavel Pasmanik

			
Final School				Team 	Individual  Trophy
Rank					Points	Points	
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1     UMBC "A" 				5.5	17.0	    1 
	         
2-5   Univ. of Penn.			4.5	17.0	    2 
2-5   Univ. of Toronto "A"		4.5	16.5	    3    
2-5   UMBC "B"				4.5	16.5	    4    
2-5   Catholic Univ. of Peru		4.5	15.0	    5    

6-9   Univ. Nacioal de Trujillo (Peru)	4.0	16.0	    6    
6-9   NYU				4.0	15.5	    7    
6-9   Borough of Manhattan CC, NY	4.0	15.0	    Top 2-year school
6-9   Univ. of Chicago "A"		4.0	14.5	    8    

10-13 Univ. of Texas Dallas		3.5	14.0	    9    
10-13 Univ. of Toronto "B"		3.5	14.0	    10
10-13 Yale				3.5	14.0	    
10-13 Monroe CC "A", NY			3.5	13.0	    
	
-     Univ. of Montreal			3.0	15.0	    Top under 2000
-     Queen's College, NY		3.0	14.5	    Top under 1800
-     Bucknell, PA (unrated)		3.0	12.0	    Top under 1600
-     Boston Univ.			3.0	 9.0	    Top under 1600
-     Worcester Poly. Tech, MA		2.5	 9.0	    Top small school


BOARD PRIZES 
Board		Name (School)				Points
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1 		Valery Atlas (UMBC "A")			5.5 
2		Bew Dean-Kawamura (Monroe CC "A")	5.0
3		Oxana Tarassova (UMBC "B")		5.5
4		David Franklin (Chicago "A")		5.5



TOP SCHOLASTIC TEAM (from the Pan-American Scholastic Team Championship)
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Stuyvesant "A", NY  (6 team points, with 18.5 individual points)
Board 1: Alex Averbukh, 9th grade, won full 4-year tuition scholarship to UMBC)
Board 2: Mark Rubinshteyn*
Board 3: Joey Gasis*
Board 4: Gary Mishuris*
 (* each won partial 4-year tuition scholarship to UMBC)

15 scholastic teams entered the Pan-American Scholastic Team
Championship.  


PAN-American OPEN
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1    CRAFTY 			5.5
  (computer program by Professor Robert Hyatt, running on
   a Gateway Pentium Pro 200 Mhz computer with 52 megabytes
   of RAM at the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham.)

2-4  Michael Feinstein		5.0	1st-place trophy + $400
2-4  Igor Dagen			5.0
2-4  Kenneth McDonald		5.0

Approximately 55 people entered the Pan-American Open individual
tournament, including Prof. Robert Hyatt's CRAFTY (ICC blitz rating
2750).

For more information, contact:
Dr. Alan T. Sherman
Organizer, 1996 Pan-Am
sherman@cs.umbc.edu
(410) 455-2666.