Month: February 2013

  • Spokane CC Reports on the 2013 Collyer Memorial

    Spokane Chess Club report from Facebook! The 21st installment of our premiere event, the Dave Collyer Memorial, once again saw IM John Donaldson top the field with a perfect score of 5.0. He turned back Jeremy Krasin, who had the only other perfect score, in their fifth round encounter. Krasin tied for second with Mark…

  • Portland CC Feb G/60 Results

    Nick Raptis fresh off his Oregon Championship win scored 4-0 to win the 22 player event held Feb 23 at the Portland Chess Club. Neil Dale handled the TD tasks. 4 new to USCF tournament play took part. Crosstable here.

  • Results of Spokane event: 2013 SWC

    Michael Cambareri scored 4.5-.5 to win the 21 player event. It was held in Spokane WA 17 Jan-21 Feb under the direction of David Griffin. Crosstable here.

  • Larry Parsons wins Idaho State Chess Championship for 18th time

    Photo is Larry Parsons with his championship plaque as taken by Jeff Roland USCF Crosstable Tournament Report by Barry Eacker Eighteen; 18; 8-teen; ate-teen. Any way you slice it, Larry Parsons winning the Idaho Closed State Chess Championship for the eighteenth time over President’s weekend 2013 in Twin Falls, Idaho is an amazing accomplishment in…

  • March 2013 issue of Northwest Chess

    March 2013 Mock-up (Page 1) The March issue of Northwest Chess was completed on February 22, 2013. The above link is the Formal Mock-up for the issue. This issue is very special (I guess they all are), as it contains all the games from the State Championships in the first 4 rounds for both WA…

  • Josh Sinanan Reports on WA Closed

    Here are the final results of the Championship, Premier, and Invitational sections in order of tie-breaks. Please find on the NWC website, a pgn file of the games. Championship FM Ignacio Perez 2235 6/9 1st $675 NM Tian Sang 2312 5.5/9 =2nd-4th $250 FM Costin Cozianu 2508 5.5/9 =2nd-4th $250 NM David Golub 2213 5.5/9 =2nd-4th…

  • 2013 Oregon Championship

    His score was 7.5-1.5. Daniel Gay of Tigard is second with 6-2 with 1 game still in progress as of this report. Carl Haessler of Lake Osewego finished clear 3rd with 5.5-3.5. USCF Crosstable.

  • Randy Kaech Reports on WA High Team

    HIGH SCHOOL STATE – “THE BIG DANCE” SIX NWL TEAMS JOIN THE FRAY Six high school teams from the Northwest Chess League qualified and attended the season-concluding State Chess Team Championships, held this year at Interlake High School in Bellevue on February 8 and 9, 2013. The competition was tough, as evidenced by the top…

  • Northwest Grade Level Championships

    A large scholastic event was held in Bellevue on Feb 9th. under the direction of Mr. Van Weerdhnizeh. K Section: 1st Raphael Thaler of John Stanford International 5-0, 20 players 1st Grade: Terrence Digel of West Woodland Elementary 5-0. 32 players 2nd Grade: Raphael Menon of John Stanford International 5-0, 32 players 3rd Grade: Aditya…

  • Seattle CC Superbowl Tornado 2/3/2013

    10 players took part in the event held at the Seattle CC under the direction of Fred Kleist. 3 way tie for 1st at 3-1 between Jothi Ramesh of Shoreline, Kevin Lee and Eric Zhang of Sammamish. Crosstable here.