(CROSSVILLE, TN)The playoff between the winners from the four 2006 Amateur Team Chess Championships held on Presidents Day weekend in February 2006, met their chess opponents on April 2 in cyberspace on the Internet Chess Club website. In Round 1 Team East beat Team South with 3 points and Team West scored 2.5 against Team Midwest's 1.5. In Round 2 Team East scored 2.5 to beat Team West who scored 1.5 which gave them claim to the title.

The 16 players were:
TEAM EAST—MY G-8 Predecessors
1. Charles Riordan 2276 (Captain)
2. Alex Cherniack 2252
3. Lawyer Times 2174
4. Charles Mays 2039

TEAM SOUTH—Excaliber Electronics
1. GM Julio Becerra 2624
2. Jorge Reynaldo 2091
3. Javier Gonzalez 2027
4. Gil Luna 1961 (Captain)

TEAM MIDWEST—2 FMs and 2 Losers
1. Shivkumar Shivaji 2336
2. John Langreck 2226
3. FM Jim Dean 2219 (Captain)
4. Les Kistler 1971

TEAM WEST—CalTech
1. FM Patrick Hummel 2439
2. Eugene Yanayt 2312 (Captain)
3. Howard Liu 2043
4. Joshua Gutman 1993

In addition to Team East - My G-8 Predecessors winning the title of 2006 Amateur Team Playoff Champions, each member of the team will receive a wrist watch engraved with their title commemorating their outstanding achievement. The USCF would like to recognize Chief Tournament Director and International Arbiter Carol Jarecki and Internet Chess Clubs Technical Director Duncan Oxley for their director and technical expertise which helped make this years event sensational.

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