Reply #9: Well, look at the team they've assembled [View All]

[Jack Rabbit]

I knew Sabina Foisor was attending UMBC. She's actually Romanian and comes from a well-known chess playing family. While she is studying in Baltimore, she will play chess as an American. She joined the US Chess Federation and competed in the US Women's Championship in St. Louis last year.

Other than Ms. Foisor, it looks like UMBC has assembled an impressive collection of grandmasters. Kritz and Ehrenburg are neither one Kasparov, but they're good enough to beat most US players except those at the very top. I'm not at all surprised that team of that caliber can win in US college competition.