Month: March 2014

  • Seattle Spring Open Results

    67 players total in two sections at the Seattle Chess Club on March 21-23. Nick Raptis of Portland won the Open event with 3.5-.5. The reserve section was 5 rounds and winner scored 4.5-.5, Brumas Newstead of Seattle. Fred and Carol Kleist were the tournament directors. There are pictures on the Seattle Chess Club facebook…

  • Portland Chess Club Monthly Event Results

    The turnout of 39 players was so high that the usual monthly G/60 event held by the Portland Chess Club was for the March 29, 2014 event turned into a G/45 event and had 5 rounds. As usual the winner was Nick Raptis of Portland. His score was 5-0. Neil Dale of Portland was the…

  • Dragonslayer Results

    James Stripes directed a scholastic event in Spokane on March 22, 2014. Ryan Waters of Northwest Christian School in Spokane won the 28 player K-3 section with 5-0 score. Ethan Naresh of Northwest Christian School topped the K-6 section which had 25 players. Savanna Naccarato of Farman Elementary in Sandpoint, Idaho won the K-12 section…

  • Spokane Chess Club Event Results

    Spokane Chess Club reports on Facebook: “A total of 16 players competed in the G/45 dual-rated March Madness event that started March 13 and ended on March 20. Jeremy Krasin was a perfect 4.0 to top the field. Second place at 3.0 was shared by Ted Baker, Brad Bodie, and Walter van Heemstede Obelt. That…

  • Seattle Chess Club March Tornado Results

    March 16, 2014 found 18 players taking part in an event at the Seattle Chess Club under the direction of Fred Kleist of Seattle. A 4-0 score by National Master Roland Feng of Seattle won the tournament. Clear 2nd place score of 3-1 was made by Toshihiro Nagase of Redmond. The event was dual rated…

  • Chessmates Springfest Scholastic Results

    Photo Credit: Bruce Haley. The Chessmates group of Seattle held a large scholastic event in Seattle at Broadview Thompson Elementary on March 15. Directors were Georgi Orlov and Mr. Bo Cao. Two players topped the 67 player K-1st grade section, Milo Wright of Pathfinder Elementary in Seattle and Griffin O’Connor of Stevens Elementary in Seattle…

  • Tacoma Chess Club Event Results

    H. G. Pitre of Seattle held a two weekend event at the Tacoma Chess Club on Saturdays March 8 and March 15. The event was 4 rounds, two on each Saturday at time control of G/90 with 30 seconds added to each move. Paul Bartron of Tacoma won the event with 3.5-.5. 3 players missed…

  • Napavine Scholastic Event Results

    Chess4Life held a tournament in Napavine, Washington, at the Napavine Elementary School on March 15, 2014. Darren Campbell was the tournament director. 6 different sections were held with players from several different school districts in the area taking part. Two players scored 3-1, Adin Stratton of Napavine Elementary and Haarika Yajamanam of Olympic View Elementary…

  • Pacific Northwest Players in Iceland

    BY MIKE MURRAY (a bit was added by Russell Miller) Three Northwesterners competed in the ten-round 2014 Reykjavik Open: Viktors Pupols of Kingston, Washington, Jason Kenney of the Vancouver, BC area, and Mike Murray of Port Townsend, Washington. Kenney and Murray scored 5-5, while Unkel Vik scored 4.5 – 5.5, but the picture painted by…

  • Success Through Chess Event

    On March 14 at Round Table Pizza on SE Mill Plain in Vancouver, Washington, American Chess Institute held one of their events for kids. I took a few photos. CLICK HERE for the photos. I did not try to get any names of the kids this time. CLICK HERE for their website.