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Last new article added: February 26, 2011.

Historical Events and Publications

"Best of Northwest Chess" – A collection of articles from Washington Chess Letter, Northwest Chess Letter and Northwest Chess identified by former editor and business manager Russell (Rusty) Miller.

Recent Events

• Recent Events (2003 to date) by year

Other articles and historical information:
Note: Some articles have been moved to the "Best of Northwest Chess" page linked above. Also note that articles about specific persons are available on the "People Articles" page.

• British Columbia - Washington Matches, 1946 to date.

  Photo of an early (1946 or 1947) BC-WA match, from the California Chess News.

• California Chess History (many articles and publication back issues available)

• Editors List (WCL and NWC)

• New! Fischer - Article from March 1978 NWC about one of Bobby Fischer's troubles while living in California during the 1970s.

• Idaho Chess Association history page

• Idaho Chess History Project

• Oregon State Chess Champions 1961 to Date

• Puget Sound Chess News, Sep. 1946 to Feb. 1947 (PDF file of scans)

• Misc. 1932 from The Chess Reporter published in California.

• Nov 1948 article from the The Independent newspaper (part of the Long Beach, CA Press-Telegram) about WA chess champion Olaf Ulvestad and the Russians.

• Soviet Chess by James McCormick from July 1961 WCL (PDF file of scan)

• Washington State Chess Champions 1862 to Date
  A Short History of the Washington State Championship by John Donaldson from the April 1993 edition of NWC. (PDF file of scans)

• Washington Chess Letter scanning project (on a separate page)

• Washington Chess Letter/NWC recaps by Russell Miller (on a separate page)

• Washington Chess Letter/NWC cover images by Russell Miller (on a separate page)

• 1957 Washington Open (actually held Oct 20-21, 1956) in Spokane.
  Articles in PDF format, with a page of cartoons!

• March 5-7, 1971 Northwest Invitational Chess Tournament, Park-Haviland Hotel Portland, OR. Article from May 1971 Chess Life. | CBV format games file.