USATE – BEST TEAM NAME WINNERS 1973 – 2015

Winning Team Name

Legalize Caruana

NSA is Perpetually Checking

Rg3 Offensive Rook of the Year

Team Romney We Play Both Sides of the Board

Chilean Defense: No Minor Pieces Trapped

None Reported – Top team name was deemed inappropriate for Chess Life.

I Can See Russians from My Board

No Longer Searching for Bobby Fischer

e2 Brute?

Dick Cheney Attack: Bird’s Variation

King of Pop perpetually Touches Minor Pieces

USCF Unstable Cash Flow

Trent Lott Says Black is O.K.

Enron’s 401K Plan – No Perpetual Check

Harry Patzer and the Poisoned Pawn

Does Your Peter Leko

Forking Geniuses

Mr. Clinton Your Piece is Hanging

Tickle Me ELO

Hickory, Dickory, Doc, We’re Going to Win a Clock

Two way tie Searching for Bobby Stitcher AND Searching for Bobbit’s Bishop

White Pawns Can’t Jump

My Flag is Falling and I Can’t Get Up

We Don’t Ivanchuk a Pawn

Two Knights, Let it Be Lowenthal

Little Karpov Horrors

You Rook Mahvelous

Baked E Lasker

No Pawn Intended

Tahlstoy’s War and Pieces

Saemisch Usual

Buenas Nochess (Good Knight)

Tarrasch Collectors

No outright winner was listed. Seven teams were noted, thus: “…innovations and originality over the chess board were matched by names of some of the teams.”