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LVP99081901 - 19 AUGUST 1999 - LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA: Alexander Khalifman of Russia, the 36th ranked chess player in the world, contemplates his next move against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania in a semi-final round of the 1999 World Chess Championship. The winner of Wednesday's match plays Vladimir Akopian of Armenia for The World Chess Championship and $660,000 in first place money. The month-long World Chess Championship, which culminates 8/22S at Caesars Palace Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is sponsored by the World Chess Federation, known as FIDE. The total prize money is $3 million. CC/Brian Jones UPI
LVP99081901 - 19 AUGUST 1999 - LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA: Alexander Khalifman of Russia, the 36th ranked chess player in the world, contemplates his next move against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania in a semi-final round of the 1999 World Chess Championship. The winner of Wednesday's match plays Vladimir Akopian of Armenia for The World Chess Championship and $660,000 in first place money. The month-long World Chess Championship, which culminates 8/22S at Caesars Palace Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is sponsored by the World Chess Federation, known as FIDE. The total prize money is $3 million. CC/Brian Jones UPI 
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Published: Dec. 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM

EAST WINDSOR, Fla., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A set of 7-year-old triplets from New Jersey was dubbed the top team in the first grade section of the National Scholastic K-12 Chess Championship in Florida.

Katerina Varsou of East Windsor said her fraternal triplets, Andreas, Nicholas and Constantine Oskiper, only started playing chess about a year before taking the top spot at the Dec. 10-12 tournament, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

The boys played as a team, adding together their scores at the end of the games.

"I've seen them more cheering for each other in the nationals than I have seen them do before," Varsou said.

The United States Chess Federation said it marked the first time a tournament had been won by a team of triplets.

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