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.”
Those teams were:
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; The Meat Machines; Pochahantis & the Nimzo-Indians; The Pawnographics; Kiss My Rooks; The Vera Mecnchik Brigade; Future Schach
1973 - 1979 No article or report found.
