College chess is starting off the new year with an exciting annual classic: the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship. This year, the tournament is returning to over-the-board just outside of Washington DC. Top college chess teams will be competing for the next four days to decide a champion amongst them. The top matches will be broadcast live with DGT boards, and live coverage will be provided at Twitch.tv/CollegiateChessLeague. The event will be covered by commentators IM Kostya Kavutskiy and IM David Pruess from ChessDojoLive and NM Alex King and NM Matan Prilleltensky from MasterChess.

Round 1: January 6th: 6pm-11pm ET by Kostya
Round 2: January 7th: 11am-4pm ET by David
Round 3: January 7th: 6pm-11pm ET by Alex and Matan
Round 4: January 8th: 11am-4pm ET by Alex and Matan
Round 5: January 8th: 6pm-11pm ET by Kostya
Round 6: January 9th: 10am-3pm ET by Alex and Matan

The Collegiate Chess League’s commissioner, Joe Lee, commented on the event: “The PanAms is a highly traditioned college chess event, and we are honored and excited to broadcast this prestigious tournament on the CCL channel and hope to grow college chess by sharing events like this and other college chess tournaments alongside the Collegiate Chess League’s main season.”

Kostya from ChessDojoLive said “ChessDojo is pumped to cover some high-level OTB chess and to support the growth of the collegiate chess scene.” Matan from MasterChess added “MasterChess.org is thrilled to partner with Chess.com and the PanAmerican Intercollegiate Championship. The combination of top quality chess and strengthening the chess community in higher education makes this one of the most exciting events of the year!”

Be sure to tune in and watch some of the best college chess teams compete in this exciting over-the-board event. Will Webster successfully defend their title from last year’s online event, or will Texas Tech reclaim it from the last time it was OTB? Or will the Collegiate Chess League Champions UChicago take it all? You can find a full list of all the teams here, and you can find out more about the event here. For any questions regarding the event, you can reach out to the tournament’s head organizer and host of the event Anand Dommalapati at adommalapati@yahoo.com. For any questions regarding the Collegiate Chess League, you can email League’s commissioner Joe Lee at ccl@chess.com