2005 Washington
vs. British Columbia
International Chess Match
December 3, 2005
Pacific Meridian Building, Bellingham, Washington
This 60 year old event was
renewed in 2003 and again in 2004. 10 chess masters from the state of Washington
faced off against 10 chess masters from British Columbia. The Canadian team won
both events 6-4. This year, a very strong team from
Washington State defeated BC's team by a score of 8 1/2 to 1 1/2. Complete
results are now available including all of the games and photos on the
BC Chess Federation web site.
Report from Paul Brown of the BC team
Hi everyone: Thanks again for the match. It was a lot fun - on
the losing side for a change.
I've uploaded everything to
http://www.chess.bc.ca, then click on "games and photos" on the BC vs.
Washington Update.
You will NOTICE THAT, a couple of the team photos are blurry.
Perhaps you can help me out if someone has better photos available. Also, I'm
missing a picture of Ian Skulsky. I thought I got everybody's photo but
apparently missed one.
Many many thanks to Lynn Stringer for putting all of the games
into the database. That was a HUGE HELP!
If anyone wants to annotate their games, just send them to me
and I will make the update. Many players did annotate their games last year.
Feel free to put any material in Northwest Chess. Also, any additional photos
will certainly be credited and linked back to players who send them to me to
help out.
See you all next year!
We're not looking for revenge..... We just play for the fun of
it.....
If you believe that, you'll believe anything. ;-)
The 2005 match-ups and results were as follows: (revised
12/8/2005)
WASHINGTON
BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. IM Eric Tangborn 2462(B) - Dan Scoones
2290 1-0
2. NM John Readey 2338(W) - Alfred Pechisker 2252 1-0
3. NM Elliott Neff 2263(B) - Brian McLaren 2232 0.5-0.5
4. NM Harley Greninger 2245(W) - Paul Brown 2217 0-1
5. NM Nat Koons 2239(B) - Lucas Davies 2207 1-0
6. NM Bill McGeary 2219(W) - Bindi Cheng 2201 1-0
7. NM David Bragg 2210(B) - Ian Skulsky 2134 1-0
8. Bruce Kovalsky 2166(W) - Laszlo Tegzes 2109 1-0
9. Curt Collyer 2164(B) - Marek Radzikowski 2095 1-0
10. Nick Palveda 2151(W) - Hee Seid 2061 1-0
BC Team Organizer: Len Molden
WCF Team Organizer: Duane Polich
Previous note from the BC Chess Federation:
The next two weekends see the renewal of formal chess
competition between the province of British Columbia and the state of
Washington. First is the adult match on ten boards, to be played at Bellingham
on December 3 (weather permitting). This is the third match in the modern series
(the main matches were held 1944-1963); B.C. won in both 2003 and 2004 with
identical 6-4 scores, but this year the beefed-up Washington squad will be
looking for revenge: (see line-ups above).
Then on December 10 at BCIT is the annual scholastic match;
forty-eight players, two per grade from each side, will square off in the
fifteenth competition of the series. Last year B.C. won the match, but
Washington remains ahead in the overall series by 8-6.
We will present reports on both matches in the next Bulletin
(December 15); full historical results can be found at
http://www3.telus.net/public/swright2/bcwam.html.
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