Northwest Chess Blog

Category: Scholastic

  • National Elementary in Nashville TN

    Anthony He of WA won the biltz event at the tournament of over 2,000 players. CLICK HERE for the Crosstable. CLICK HERE for the crosstables of all the various sections. He is 5th on the crosstable for the K-5 Championship section drawing games with two of the kids who tied for 1st. A number of…

  • National Junior High Chess Championships

    Story contributed by Breck Haining. Three Seattle Chess Club members, Kyle and Karen Haining and Vikram Ramasamy, played in the National Junior High Chess Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, the last weekend of April 2015. In the National K-9 Bughouse Championship tournament Kyle and Vikram teamed up and won 3rd place. Karen and a boy from Detroit teamed…

  • Oregon Scholastic Championship Event

    April 25 saw a lot of Oregon kids playing chess in Seaside Oregon Convention center for the Oregon Scholastic Chess Championships in several sections. CLICK HERE for the Chess Ratings Northwest crosstables. CLICK HERE for USCF Crosstables of this event.

  • 2015 WA Elementary & Middle School Chess Championship

    Your reporter was at the playing site in Spokane for awhile on the Saturday of the event and took some random photos. I am sure there were others with cameras there and if I find links to more photos I will add them to this post. 875 players in 7 sections took part in the…

  • Becca Lampman ties for 1st Place in 12th All Girls Event.

    Becca Lampman of Vancouver, Washington, scored 5-1 (2 draws) the same as 3 others for 1st place in the Under 18 section. “Becca won First Place on tie breaks and was awarded the championship trophy and prize,” so reports her mother to your reporter. The tournament was held April 17-19, 2015 in Chicago, Ill. CLICK…

  • Washington State Girls Championship Results

    Sangeeta Dhingra won a one game playoff at a time control of G/15; d5 over Naomi Bashkansky. They scored 3.5-.5 in the main event. They drew with each other in the 4th round. David Hendricks directed the event for the sponsoring Washington Chess Federation. Winner got $500.00 in travel expense money for a national USCF…

  • 2015 WA State Scholastic Chess Championships

    The 2015 WA State Scholastic Chess Championships were held on March 7th at Interlake High School in Bellevue and on March 8th at the Seattle Chess Club in Northgate. 169 players took part in 6 sections: K-3U800, K-3U1400, 4-6U1000, 4-12U1400, K-8 U1600, and K-8 Open. The tournament was directed by David Hendricks with assistance from Josh…

  • Washington High School Team Championship

    State Team Championship 2015 1. Interlake 2. Lakeside 3. Garfield 4. Redmond 5. (tieOverlake 5. Sehome 7. (tie) Seattle Prep 7. International Community School 9. (tie) Ferndale 9. Eastlake 11. (tie)Ingraham 11. Bellevue 11. Issaquah 11. Snohomish 11. LaCenter 16. (tie)Othello 16. Blaine 18. Kamiak 19. Roosevelt 20. Mariner 21. (tie) Auburn-Riverside 21. Meridian 23.…

  • Noah Fields is WA State High School Champion!

    Noah Fields, a 9th grader from Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, won clear first place at the WA High School Individual Championship. Noah is a long-time student of IM Georgi Orlov, and his rating has now passed 2100 for the very first time. Along the way, he defeated both of the master-level He Brothers in back-to-back…

  • Anath Gottumukkala wins WA Junior Open

    Reported by WCF president Josh Sinanan. Recent International Community School graduate Anath Gottumukkala (rated only 1278 USCF, 1634 NW) won clear first at the Washington Junior Open on MLK Monday (Jan. 19, 2015) with 4/4!  For his victory, Anath is seeded into the 2015 WA Premier and 2016 WA Junior Closed. This was only Anath’s…