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The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

Julio Sadorra, a business administration graduate, previously played for the UTD chess team and is now its coach after former coach Rade Milovanovic retired. Photo by Aasav Sureja | Mercury Staff.

Chess team hires new coach

March 10, 2019

Since the start of February, the UTD chess team has been working with its new head coach after the retirement of long-time coach Rade Milovanovic. Julio Sadorra, a UTD alumnus who graduated in 2013...

Chess team coach Rade Milovanovic got started at UTD in 1999. 20 years and three Final Four appearances later, he's saying goodbye to the team. Photo by Anna Phengsakmueang | Mercury Staff.

Long-time chess team coach set to retire

January 28, 2019

After 20 years with the UTD chess team, coach Rade Milovanovic is retiring. Before the season began in the fall of 2018, Milovanovic notified the team he would be retiring to spend more time with his...

Finance and economics sophomore Titas Stremavicius (left) and computer science freshman Razvan Preotu practice on Jan. 19 for an upcoming match. Photo by Madeline Ambrose | Mercury Staff.

Chess team falls short

January 22, 2018

After performing well at the past few competitions, the UTD chess team failed to qualify for the finals at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship. The annual competition occurred from...

Members of the UTD chess team use their laptops to prepare to compete in an annual tournament with players from the University of Belgrade for the Svetozar Gligoric Transatlantic Cup on Nov. 10. Photo by Sri Chandra Kiran Gottipati | Mercury Staff.

Chess program experiences rapid growth

November 13, 2017

Throughout its 21 years, the UTD chess program has evolved through improving recruitment processes to keep up with the increasing competitiveness in the American collegiate chess scene. Just last month,...

ITS junior Suhasini Sundar (left) and finance senior Alekhya Nandula (right) face off in a chess match. Photo by Ruth Varghese | Mercury Staff.

Queens of Chess

January 23, 2017

Coach Rade Milovanovic started working with the UTD Chess team in 1999, when there were only two players on the team carrying the highest title competitive chess has to offer — Grandmaster. Now, 18 years...

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Master of the game

September 22, 2014

Chess grandmaster wins final match of U.S. Open tournament with lightning speed in five minutes In the final tiebreaker of the 2014 U.S. Open chess tournament, the two opponents concentrated, sizing each...

Yang Xi | Mercury Staff

Chess team wins third straight Pan-Am

January 14, 2013

Grandmaster Julio Sadorra sat across the board from Webster University’s Fidel Corrales of Cuba in the Frick Laboratory at Princeton University waiting to land the upper hook in the final round. That...

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