Does anybody know if there's a college club chess championship?

Question

I know colleges have chess clubs ,but do they have a ranking system that determines if there's a champion?

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Answer 1

Yes, there is a college chess club championship: It is called the Pan American Chess Championships. It has been held annually, for decades, between Christmas and New Year's Day.

I don't know whether they still hold the event, but in the 1950s and 1960s there was the World Student Team Chess Championship. See reference below.

As for ranking college teams, even when two teams haven't played each other: most countries use what is known as a player's chess rating. In the case of a team, they use the average rating of the players composing the teams. For more on ratings, try:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELO_rating_system

and...

http://www.uschess.org/ratings/

I don't believe the US Chess Federation keeps a ranked list of college teams.

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Answer 2

I think it's mainly Organizations. There's really no way to tell who's the best chess player.

Answer 3

who cares, nerd