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Chess Game Scores (from Washington events)

Acknowledgements:

  • Thanks to Drayton Harrison for compiling most Washington event games (2006 to 2010).

  • Thanks to Fred Kleist for compiling (or assisting with) the 2009-2013 WA state championship games.

  • Thanks to Murlin Varner for compiling the 2011-12 WA Class, 2012 WA Open and 2012 U.S. Open games.

  • Thanks to Bill McGeary for the Silverdale, Washington games.

File Format Notes:

  • CBV type files are Chessbase archive databases. They can be opened with Fritz, ChessBase, ChessBase Light, ChessBase Reader, and Chess Assistant. If you don't have one of these chess programs, you can go to www.chessbase.com and download the free ChessBase Light.

  • PGN (Portable Game Notation) type files can be opened with almost any chess program, and also any text editor such as MS-Word or Notepad.

  • We've added MyChessViewer 2.2 from MyChess.com, which allows you to view games in the PGN files directly in your browser. (Click on the corresponding .htm file in the MyChessViewer column to open the viewer.)

Additional File Format Notes from Drayton:

  • The ChessBase (cbv) files have the best annotations and I recommend that everyone should get ChessBase on their computer. There are two free versions of ChessBase (CB Light and CB Reader) available with limited features.

  • When I convert the ChessBase file to PGN it loses several features: 1) all medals and colored arrows and squares; 2) Diagrams will say "Diagram" in the text but it doesn't print real diagrams anymore, even if you convert it back to ChessBase. 3) Chess symbols & fonts such as "+/=" are not readable unless you open the PGN file with ChessBase on a windows computer.
   
Event: Washington Championship, Premier and Invitational
Year Files for download MyChessViewer
2013 WAChamp13.pgn WAChamp13.htm
2012 WAChamp12.pgn WAChamp12.htm
2011 WAChamp11.pgn WAChamp11.htm
2010 WAChamp10.pgn WAChamp10.htm
2009 WAChamp09.pgn WAChamp09.htm
2008 WAChamp08.cbv | WAChamp08.pgn WAChamp08.htm
2007 WAChamp07.pgn | WAChamp07.pdf (final crosstables)
There are two games in the Premier with missing or indecipherable scoresheets: (1) Calpo-Ballard (2) Smith-Cloy.		 WAChamp07.htm
 
Event: Washington Open
Year Files for download MyChessViewer
2012 WAOpen2012.pgn WAOpen2012.htm
2011 Not available  
2010 WAOpen2010.cbv | WAOpen2010.pgn WAOpen2010.htm
2009 Not available  
2008 WAOpen2008.cbv | WAOpen2008.pgn WAOpen2008.htm
2007 WAOpen2007.cbv | WAOpen2007.pgn
The Chessbase file has about 20 games with some commentary.		 WAOpen2007.htm
 
Event: Washington Class Championships
Year Files for download MyChessViewer
2012 WAClass12.pgn WAClass12.htm
2011 WAClass11.pgn WAClass11.htm
2010 Not available  
2009 WAClass09.cbv | WAClass09.pgn WAClass09.htm
2008 WAClass08.cbv (some comments) | WAClass08.pgn (no comments) WAClass08.htm
2007 WAClass07.cbv | USCF Cross Tables (HTML file)
WAClass07_annotated.pgn (some annotations)
WAClass07_nocomments.pgn (no annotations)
Thanks to all who played in the tournament, submitted readable score sheets, and who assisted me with the bulletin. – Drayton		 WAClass07.htm
(annotated version)
2006 WAClass06.cbv (complete) | WAClass06_update.cbv (update)
WAClass06.pgn (complete) | WAClass06_update.pgn (update)		 WAClass06.htm

2006 notes: There is no commentary in the PGN files because some chess programs have compatibility issues with annotated games. The "Update" version of both files contains 10 additional games and corrected games as follows: 1) Additional games that were published in Northwest Chess magazine. 2) Updated commentary of some games that were published in Northwest Chess. 3) Correction of moves to Inglis-Woodlief game. The complete version also contains corrected player names (Ignacio Perez and Dennis McGuire).
 
Event: Washington Challengers Cup
Year Files for download MyChessViewer
2010-2011 Not available  
2009 WAChCup09.pgn WAChCup09.htm
2008 WAChCup08.pgn WAChCup08.htm
2007 WAChCup07.cbv | WAChCup07.pgn WAChCup07.htm
 
Seattle Chess Club Events
Year/Event Files for download MyChessViewer
2009 Green Open II SCCGreen200905.pgn (selected games) SCCGreen200905.htm
2008 Green Open I SCCGreen200809.pgn SCCGreen200809.htm
2008 Seafair Open SCCSeafair08.pgn SCCSeafair08.htm
 
Other Washington Events
Year/Event Files for download MyChessViewer
2013 Lufei Ruan Simul Lufei_Ruan_simul_2013.pgn Lufei_Ruan_simul_2013.htm
2012 U.S. Open USOpen2012.pgn USOpen2012.htm
Notes from Murlin Varner: 501 games from the U.S. Open in Vancouver (plus one game from a PCC quad a week or so later) and other associated events (Denker, Barber, Swiss, Quads). These games feature players from Idaho (9), Oregon (85) and Washington (109) as well as some games without any Northwest players involved. Games were taken directly from turned-in scoresheets by me, plus games gathered by Frank Niro from the Monroi website and from his connections with Webster University. Additional games were emailed to me by various Northwest players.
2010 Rasmussen Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Tourney Rasmussen_BDG_2010.pgn Rasmussen_BDG_2010.htm
2010 Silverdale Beach Open Silverdale_201010.pgn (15 selected games) Silverdale_201010.htm
2009 Silverdale Beach Open Silverdale_200910.pgn (5 selected games) Silverdale_200910.htm