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Held at Providence, Rhode Island.

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See http://il-chess.net/icb_pdf/ICB_197... (page 10 - Harold Winston was the author of the report) for the synopsis of the 1978 event: 8 rounds, 85 teams, 369 players from 25 States, Canada and the Dominican Republic assembled between 26th-30 December, 1978 - at the Ramada O'Hare Inn at Chicago.

The winning Yale A's team (captained by Michael Rohde (7 total points out of 8) and 2nd board Jonathan Tisdall (4.5 of 5 total games played) outranked many other team's top board in rating) had an average rating in excess of 2200, followed closely in average rating by the U of Pennsylvania A (defending champs of 1977) team and Florida, headed by Gregg Small. It is possible that T J Costigan vs M Rohde, 1978 could have been part of the Dec Pan-Am Intercollegiate event at Chicago, although its pgn is ambiguous. Twins Richard Costigan and Thomas J Costigan (scored 7.5 in his 8 played games to win top 2nd board prize) played for U of Pennsylvania A, Peter Nurmi and David Lavin played for York U and Diana Lanni (then ranked 14th of women in the USA) of U of Michigan.

Minnesota A upset U of Toronto in the 4th round to make a 4-way tie with Yale A, U of Pennsylvania A and Florida. After many hours, Nurmi recovered an early round win against Purdue B after Lavin lost his match with Purdue. The 5th round saw a Yale 4-0 smash versus Florida with Pennsylvania A edging out Minnesota A 2.5-1.5, allowing Pennsylvania A to meet Yale (0.5-3.5) in the 6th round.

Finally, Yale then beat Minnesota, and Pennsylvania took 2nd by beating Arizona state. Yale A not only won all their matches, but also did not lose a single of their 32 games. Sergey Kudrin of Columbia won the top board prize of 1st board and Peter Stein (IITB) scored 7 points out of 8 to win top 3rd board prize.

1978 Pan-Am Intercollegiate standings
Yale                    8-0
U of Pennsylvania - A   7-1
U of Toronto           6½-1½
U of Minnesota - A      6-2
Ohio State U - A        6-2
Columbia U - A          6-2
Arizona State U        5½-2½
MIT                    5½-2½
Purdue U - A           5½-2½
U of Cincinnati - A    5½-2½