Miami Sharks

Welcome to the homepage of the Miami Sharks, who play their matches from the Miami International Chess Academy.



     Miami has without question been one of the premier teams of the League since its inception, with four playoff seasons and two Championshp appearances.

     Despite their tremendous success, Miami has always been one of the few teams who seemed to against the typical USCL trends, in particular never really having any young up and coming players and also tending to use a very similar set of four players throughout any given season.  While atypical, it certainly has proven effective for them, yet that all seems poised to change in 2010.  At long last the Sharks have added a second GM to their roster, with GM Renier Gonzalez joining the team, to aid their longtime star, GM Julio Becerra.  While it will certainly be very useful to their team's flexibility to have him a part of it, he definitely will have some big standards to measure up to with Becerra being the most successful player in league history in many aspects.

    In addition, the Sharks have also added a couple of up and coming talents to their team, another very novel thing to their team.  But with the rapidly improving NM Robert Perez and Nicholas Rosenthal available to hold down the bottom board, the Sharks will have lineup stuctures available which they've never had before.  With another long time star of theirs, NM Eric Rodriguez, also returning and likely to be playing Board Three exclusively this year, a lineup with both of their GMs, him, and one of their young players is likely to be a big threat to take down any team.  If that lineup and their others can perform simillarly as they have in years' past, 2010 could well be the year where the Sharks win the Championship and end the debate of whether they or Boston are the strongest team to never have won the USCL Title.

Two Time All Star: NM Eric Rodriguez

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History
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Miami's Historical Results:

2009:  6.0 4.0, 4th Place in the Western Division.  Lost in Championship to New York in Tiebreaker
2008:  7.0 3.0, 1st Place in the Western Division.  Lost 3 - 1 in Semifinals to Dallas
2007:  5.0
5.0, 3rd Place in the Western Division.  Lost 3.5 - 0.5 in Semifinals to Dallas
2006:  4.0 6.0, 4th Place in the Western Division.  Failed to qualify for the Playoffs
20055.5 4.5, 2nd Place in the Western Division.  Lost 3.5 - 0.5 in Championship to Baltimore


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