USATE – BEST TEAM NAME WINNERS 1973 – 2015

YEAR

Winning Team Name

2015

Legalize Caruana

2014

NSA is Perpetually Checking

2013

Rg3 Offensive Rook of the Year

2012

Team Romney We Play Both Sides of the Board

2011

Chilean Defense: No Minor Pieces Trapped

2010

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

2009

I Can See Russians from My Board

2008

No Longer Searching for Bobby Fischer

2007

e2 Brute?

2006

Dick Cheney Attack: Bird’s Variation

2005

King of Pop perpetually Touches Minor Pieces

2004

USCF Unstable Cash Flow

2003

Trent Lott Says Black is O.K.

2002

Enron’s 401K Plan – No Perpetual Check

2001

Harry Patzer and the Poisoned Pawn

2000

Does Your Peter Leko

1999

Forking Geniuses

1998

Mr. Clinton Your Piece is Hanging

1997

Tickle Me ELO

1996

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

1995

1994

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

1993

White Pawns Can’t Jump

1992

1991

My Flag is Falling and I Can’t Get Up

1990

We Don’t Ivanchuk a Pawn

1989

Two Knights, Let it Be Lowenthal

1988

Little Karpov Horrors

1987

You Rook Mahvelous

1986

Baked E Lasker

1985

No Pawn Intended

1984

Tahlstoy’s War and Pieces

1983

Saemisch Usual

1982

Buenas Nochess (Good Knight)

1981

Tarrasch Collectors

1980

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.”