Grandmaster Yuri Shulman Wins FIDE-Rated UTD Intramural Chess Championship 2nd Straight Year
Nov. 13, 2002
Grandmaster Yuri Shulman of Minsk, Belarus, a graduate student in the School of Management, this week handily won The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Intramural Chess Championship over nine opponents for the second straight year. UTD is the only American college ever to hold a tournament sufficiently international in stature to be rated by the world governing body of chess, FIDE (Federation Internationale des Echecs).
