Nadezda Gordeeva

On 25-26 April night, the International University Chess League was held on the www.lichess.org portal, attended by 398 players from 35 universities in 11 countries, worldwide. Among many, Russia, USA, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Great Britain, Mexico and Fiji took part.

According to the rules of the competition, each university could declare an unlimited number of people. The team classification was formed by the sum of the 8 best personal results.
With 260 points in the final table, the team of Perm State University won a sensational victory in the competition. This is the first PSU international success in the history of the chess. Other top winners are also Russian universities: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Moscow State University.

Following the Top 3, is the teams of Princeton University (USA), led by Andrew Tang, known American grandmaster, considered one of the best in the world in speed play on the Internet. On www.lichess.org, Andrew Tang holds an honorable 1: 2 points ratio with the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway (at the time of publication, the score of personal meetings was 328-671).

The Chess Competition Final Rankings:
1). Perm State University, PSU (Russia) 260
2). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, MIPT (Russia) 250
3). Moscow State University, MSU (Russia) 237
4). Princeton University (USA) 218
5). École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) 209
6.) St Petersburg University, SPbU (Russia) 204
7). University of Antwerp, Universiteit Antwerpen, (Belgium) 204
8). The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RUDN University (Russia) 201
9). Technical University of Munich, TUM, TU Munich, Technische Universität München (Germany) 195
10). University of Toronto, University of Toronto, U of T, UToronto (Canada) 194
11). University of Paris, Université Paris-Sud (France) 188
12). University of Montreal, Université de Montréal, UdeM (Canada) 188
13). ITMO University, (Russia) 186
14). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (USA) 179
15). University of Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy) 170
16). Innopolis University (Russia) 161
17). Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (Russia) 160
18). University of Warwick (UK) 153
19). University of Warwick (B) (UK) 138
20). Ibero-American University Puebla, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, UIA, Ibero (Mexico) 132
21). University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario Tech University, Ontario Tech (Canada) 128
22). Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) 115
23). Moscow State Institute of International Relations, MGIMO University (Russia) 114
24). University of Alberta, U of A, UAlberta (Canada) 106
25). HSE University, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia) 97
26). Harvard University (USA) 80
27). University of Bologna, Alma mater studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO (Italy) 69
28). University of Fiji (Fiji) 64
29). Brock University (Canada) 50
30). University of Manchester (UK) 41
31). National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (Russia) 8
32). Stanford University (USA) 4
33). Skolkovo (Russia) 0
34). Imperial College London, Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (UK)
35). University of Texas at San Antonio (USA)

Artem Polonsky, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, PSU and a coach of the Univer Sports Club chess team (46 points) took the 1st place in the individual competition of the International University League, not without a share of luck. The tournament was held from midnight to 01:40 local Perm time, PSU team including 26 players.

Broadcast of the tournament with comments, recorded (in English)
Results in detail