The United States College Chess Championship: A History of the President's Cup

The top four U.S. schools from the annual Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship qualify for the President's Cup, formerly nicknamed the Final Four of College Chess. Pursuing national chess championships, universities spend millions, including chess scholarships. Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley—which don't offer chess scholarships—have played in President's Cups. But chess scholarship schools triumph year after year. Most successful is Webster ...