Essays and News Articles about UMBC Chess

Essays

• Chess as Sport by Alan T. Sherman (Baltimore Sun, June 16, 1996)
• Three Puzzles from Russia (1996). Solutions..
• Mating Season Opens at UMBC Chess Club (ps file) by Alan T. Sherman (1991)

UMBC Chess News

• 1995 Pan-Am
• UMBC Checkmates MIT (1995)
• 1994 Pan-Am (ps file)
• 1993 Pan-Am
• Misc. news reports

Note: The Maryland Chess Newsletter (published by the Maryland Chess Association) is an excellent source of local chess news.

Newspaper articles about UMBC Chess

1996

• Smith, Jamie, ``UMBC Chess Club beats Harvard,'' The Retriever (October 22, 1996), 2.
• Sherman, Alan T., ``College chess and the 1996 Pan-Am,'' Chess Life (November 1996), 6.
• Joyner, Jim, ``UMBC chess team captures sweet revenge,'' Cantonsville Times (October 16, 1996), 26.
• James, Michael, ``Harvard outclassed by tough UMBC chess team,'' Baltimore Sun (October 14, 1996), 7B.
• ``Belarus native wins exhibtion match,'' Baltimore Sun (June 24, 1996), B Section.
• Respers, Lisa, ``Computer makes chess spectator sport,'' Baltimore Sun (June 22, 1996), B1-2.
• Sherman, Alan T., ``Yes, chess deserves sporting treatment,'' Baltimore Sun (June 16, 1996), 8F.
• Fischer, Bobby, ``Chess players arrested as campus reign of terror ends,'' The Deceiver (April 1, 1996), 21+.
• Shane, Scott, ``Winning chess, mastering America,'' Baltimore Sun (March 25, 1996), 1, 4A.
• Redman, Tim, ``College and university chess scholarships,'' Chess Life (March 1996), p.8, 79.
• ``UMBC named to be host of college chess playoff,'' (January 8 or 9, 1996), B Section.
• Eschbach, Kurt, ``Chess on the move at UMBC,'' Maryland Chess Newsletter (winter 1996), 12-13.

1995

• ``UMBC chess team beats MIT in internet broadcast game,'' Baltimore Sun (November 14, 1995), B Section.
• ``Grandmaster teaches chess on the internet,'' The Retriever (November 11, 1995), 2.
• Loudermilk, Suzanne, ``UMBC has strategy to lure chess champs,'' Baltimore Sun (May 8, 1995), 7B.
• Joyner, Jim, ``Machine is royal pain for chess champ,'' Arbutus Times (March 29, 1995), 14.
• Smith, Linell, ``Alan Sherman is master of the game,'' Baltimore Sun (January 8, 1995), Today Section. [Alan Sherman, who is a Class A player, had nothing to do with the misleading title.]