A total of 101 Maryland players from 33 schools attended Supernationals V last weekend at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. Below are the awards won by Maryland players.

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Congratulations to Andrew Zheng (2100), who defeated Bendeguz Offertaler (2082) on Board 1 in Round 4 to become the 2013 Maryland-Sweet-16 Champion.  A 5th grader at Pointers Run Elementary School in Howard County, Andrew finished with a score of 3.5/4. With the title comes the 4-year MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship  to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, valued at $39,056 in 2012-2013.

The Maryland Chess Association will be organizing a tournament in memory of GM Yuri Razuvaev August 8-11, 2013 in Rockville, Maryland. GM Razuvaev was the coach of Alexandra Kosteniuk when she won the Woman's World Championship in 2008. In honor of this, the tournament format will a match of some of the top women chess players against some older male players who were friends with GM Razuvaev.

 This tournament will be held in parallel with the 2nd Annual Washington International live broadcasts of the games will be at http://www.mdchess.com.