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2004 Dave Collyer Memorial

This popular annual tournament was held February 21-22 in Spokane, Washington.

See the complete results on the Spokane Chess Club web site.

From: Northwest Chess Center Forum

Posted by: Kevin Korsmo
Date Posted: Feb 22, 2004

IM John Donaldson and local Expert Curt Collyer tied for first in the 62 player Dave Collyer Memorial with scores of 4.5. Third place was shared by IM Eric Tangborn, FM David Sprenkle, NM Nick Raptis, 9th grader Daniel Copeland, Kent McNall, and Kirk Steinocher, all of whom scored 4 points.

A complete story will appear in a future issue of Northwest Chess.

We had players from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and California this year!

Class winners were:

A: McNall and Steinocher, (4.0)
B: Copeland (4.0) and Varner (3.5)
C: Griffin (3.0) and Younker (2.5)
D: Kirlin (3.0) and Hunt-Erickson and Reinhold (2.5)

Biggest upset: Younker
second biggest: Terry Fortier
(This prize was donated by a spectator who liked all of the big upsets we had!)