Join Caltech and MIT alumni chess champions who will compete for school pride before a live Zoom audience to determine the best player from both institutes!
The Caltech Alumni Association and MIT Alumni Association are proud to host our first-ever alumni chess tournament, Match Madness!
In this exciting virtual event, alumni from both institutes will play chess in fast-paced blitz fashion and compete through the bracket to reach the finals. One Caltech alum and one MIT alum will face off in the final match, and the victor will be crowned the greatest alum chess player of two of the world’s best alumni communities!
The tournament will feature a bracket of 4 chess players from Caltech and 4 from MIT, each playing a 10 minute blitz game. After two rounds, the final Caltech player and the final MIT player will face off in the finals, with a livestreamed match, live audience, and color commentary from VIP moderators.
Caltech and MIT alumni are invited and encouraged to register to attend and watch the tournament. The deadline to apply to compete has passed.
Caltech alumni
Joshua Gutman (BS '06, Computer Science)
Oscar Mickelin (MS '16, Mathematics)
Jones Murphy (MS '91, Physics)
Zach Rivkin (BS '14, Mathematics)
MIT alumni
Geoffrey Gelman '99, MNG '99
Vasik Rajlich '93
Philip Rosenbach '74
Richard Yi '20
https://caltech.zoom.us/j/81755897196?pwd=dlBlT241TW0wMFFXMmh2aTlMZE4vdz09
Meeting ID: 817 5589 7196
Passcode: Checkmate
Application Process
Tournament Process
We are grateful for the sponsorship and support of the Caltech and MIT Chess Clubs.
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