Maryland Sweet 16
MD Sweet 16
2015 MD-Sweet-16 Standings (2015.01.03)
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Updated on 01.03.2015 by John Rockefeller & Chris Kim
Welcome to the 2014-2015 qualifying season for the 2015 Maryland Sweet 16 on 03.07-08.2015. Since 1995 this annual invitational tournament has featured 16 of the top K-12 Maryland residents competing in a separate section of the UMBC Open at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The MD-Sweet-16 Champion will receive a MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship: a fixed-dollar scholarship valued at $41,536, spread over 4 years. (The scholarship covers tuition & fees, but not room & board.) Incidentally, there are 2 other types of UMBC Chess Scholarships for high-school seniors who reside either inside, or outside Maryland.
7 of the 9 scheduled MD-Sweet-16 Qualifiers in this qualifying season have been completed. The standings are current through MCA Oakdale on 01.03.2015. Of the 2 remaining scheduled MD-Sweet-16 Qualifiers this season, the next scheduled one will be MCA Poly on 1.17.2015 at the Baltimore Polytechnical Institute (Baltimore, MD), & the final scheduled one will be MCA McDuffie Memorial on 02.21.2015 at the same school in Baltimore.
Click below for the MD-Sweet-16 qualification rules, scoring rules, current Qualifiers & Alternates, & full standings.
2015 MD-Sweet-16 Standings (2015.01.17)
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Updated on 01.18.2015 by John Rockefeller & Chris Kim after the MCA Poly tournament.
Next update in about a week after the Feb 2015 supplement is released.
Welcome to the 2014-2015 qualifying season for the 2015 Maryland Sweet 16 on 03.07-08.2015. Since 1995 this annual invitational tournament has featured 16 of the top K-12 Maryland residents competing in a separate section of the UMBC Open at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The MD-Sweet-16 Champion will receive a MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship: a fixed-dollar scholarship valued at $41,536, spread over 4 years. (The scholarship covers tuition & fees, but not room & board.) Incidentally, there are 2 other types of UMBC Chess Scholarships for high-school seniors who reside either inside, or outside Maryland.
8 of the 9 scheduled MD-Sweet-16 Qualifiers in this qualifying season have been completed. The standings are current through MCA Poly on 01.17.2015. The remaining scheduled MD-Sweet-16 Qualifier this season will be the MCA McDuffie Memorial on 02.21.2015 at the Baltimore Polytechnical Institute in Baltimore.
Click below for the MD-Sweet-16 qualification rules, scoring rules, current Qualifiers & Alternates, & full standings.
2015 MD-Sweet-16 Standings (FINAL STANDINGS)
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Updated on 2015.02.25 by John Rockefeller & Chris Kim
Welcome to the 2014-2015 qualifying season for the 2015 Maryland Sweet 16 on 2015.03.07-08. Since 1995 this annual invitational tournament has featured 16 of the top K-12 Maryland residents competing in a separate section of the UMBC Open at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. For more information, click on the MD-Sweet-16 tournament-announcement page on MCA's home page. The MD-Sweet-16 Champion will receive a MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship: a fixed-dollar scholarship valued at $41,536, spread over 4 years. (The scholarship covers tuition & fees, but not room & board.) Incidentally, there are 2 other types of UMBC Chess Scholarships for high-school seniors who reside either inside, or outside Maryland.
2014 MD Sweet 16 Winner: Jerry Wu (2)
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by John D. Rockefeller V
Congratulations to Jerry Wu (1944), a 9th grader at Richard Montgomery High School who earned 4/4 points to become the 2014 Maryland-Sweet-16 Chess Champion. The MD-Sweet-16 Champion will receive a 4-year MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship to attend the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, valued at $39,056 in 2013-2014. There are 2 additional types of UMBC Chess Scholarships available to all scholastic residents of Maryland.)
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2014 MD Sweet 16 Winner: Jerry Wu
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By Chris Kim
Update to follow: Jerry T Wu from Gaithersburg, MD has won the 2014 Maryland Sweet 16 chess tournament at UMBC with a perfect 4-0 record, including a 4th round win over Sahil Sinha. Jerry is a freshman at Richard Montgomery High School in Montgomery County. With the victory, he has won a 4-year chess scholarship to UMBC. More details to follow.
Congratulations!