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1998 Harvard vs. Yale Match

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1998 U.S. Amateur Team East Championships:

The HCC teams pose for a group picture at the 1998 United States Amateur Team East Championships. (Parsippany, New Jersey)
[Picture provided by Dan Benjamin]

FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov poses with HCC President-elect Woody McClelland '00.
(February 15, 1998--Parsippany, New Jersey)

Harvard's top team in action. The team, which consisted of FM Jacob Chudnovsky, HCC president Daniel Benjamin, Jonathan Wolff, and Charles Riordan, scored 5/6 to take top college team. (Picture provided by Catalina Laplaza)

The Harvard team consisting of Rory Bauer and Catalina Laplaza on the top two boards is photographed in action. (Picture provided by Catalina Laplaza)

HCC members having fun playing blitz games between rounds. (Pictures provided by Catalina Laplaza)

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1998 U.S. Junior Invitational Championship:

HCC President LM Woody McClelland '00 facing eventual champion IM Igor Shliperman at the 1998 U.S. Junior Championship with FM Eugene Perelshteyn observing.
(July 12, 1998--New York, New York)

HCC President LM Woody McClelland '00 and FM Michael Mulyar of Yale pose for the camera before their first-round encounter at the U.S. Junior Championship, which eventually ended in a draw.
(July 11, 1998--New York, New York)

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1998 Harvard Open/Harvard Scholastic Open:

The third annual Harvard Scholastic Open unfolds in Lowell Lecture Hall (September 27, 1998)

A happy, but tired GM Sergey Kudrin after tying for first in the Open section of the Harvard Open with GM Alexander Ivanov (September 27, 1998)

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HCC vs. The Chessmaster Blitz Match (October 5, 1998) [For more details, please go to the Archives page]:

Former HCC president Chris Chabris '88 squares off against the "Chessmaster", Murray Turnbull, in game 1 of the match. (Chris won to put Harvard up 1-0)

Former Yale(!) Chess Club president and current Harvard head tutor of economics Andrew Metrick takes on Turnbull in game 2. (Murray won to even the match at 1-1)

Faculty Advisor Noam Elkies faces Murray in the third game of the match. (Murray won to go up 2-1)

Current HCC president Woody McClelland '00 battles Turnbull in the final game of the match. (Woody won to make the final score of the match level at 2-2)

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1998 Harvard vs. Yale Match (November 21st at Lowell Lecture Hall) [More details about the match are available on the archives page]

HCC president Woody McClelland, Dan Benjamin, and Nick Proudfoot go toe-to-toe against Yale

Woody curiously looks over at Dan's position

Nick poses with his opponent after they finish their games (Nick won 2-0)

Top board FM Jacob Chudnovsky poses with the Wolff Cup while waiting to play his match over the internet with Yale top board FM Michael Mulyar

Jacob plays some blitz with 2-time U.S. Champion GM Patrick Wolff '96

Jacob poses with alumni from Harvard and Yale after the completion of this year's match. (Harvard won by the score of 10 games to 2, extending their winning streak over Yale to seven years).

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