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Friday, January 12, 2007

Comeuppance for the Ivies

Comeuppance for the Ivies - washingtonpost.com:

"This is the arcane and cutthroat world of collegiate chess, which shakes up the newsmagazines' annual ranking of colleges. Over the past decade, a growing number of public colleges have developed major chess programs with paid coaches and scholarships worth more than $100,000 for star recruits, many from abroad, to burnish their academic reputations."