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This Weekend!
Tacoma Tornado #3 (Mar 13); Seattle Chess Club
Open House Celebration (Mar 13); Seattle Sunday Tornado (Mar
14). Don't forget the Seattle CC has moved to a new location (which is
what the celebration is about). See:
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SCC ads including the open
house.
New! There is a local opportunity for families to host
international exchange students interested in chess. See the
scholastic opportunities page
for more information.
 The March edition of Northwest Chess has
been delayed, but should be printed and mailed by about the end of this
week. Due to the lateness of this issue, we are
making the full PDF file
available for a limited period of time, at least until the printed
version arrives in most mailboxes.
Included is an ad for the April 2-4 Far West Open in Reno,
NV. If you've never played in Reno before, why not consider it this
time?
See flyer/full-page ad in PDF format.
Or perhaps you'd like to visit British Columbia, Canada now that the
Olympics are over. See the magazine or the
TA page for
information about April/May chess events in Victoria and Vancouver, BC.
New! Games from the Oregon and
Washington championships are available on the
games page.
Champions!
The
Washington State
Chess Championship was contested Feb 6-7 and 13-15 at the
Seattle Chess Club, and the
Oregon State Chess Championship
was contested the same dates in Portland.
Congratulations to Oregon State chess champion Radu
Roua,
with an excellent 7 out of 9 score! Chuck Schulien
finished second with 6.5 points. Also,
congratulations to Washington State chess champion Howard Chen.
Howard, who is still in high school, achieved a very impressive 8 out of
9 score in a field where no one was rated under 2000. See
OR championship link for
new photos!
 The
February 2010 edition of Northwest Chess
is a 32-page issue with
stories about Kennedy (Kip) Poyser, the North American Open and the
Washington Class Championships; Washington Junior Closed photos, articles
from Bill McGeary, Harley Greninger and Dana Muller, and final 2009 Harmon
Memorial Northwest Grand
Prix standings.
See "teasers"
(selected pages): Feb |
Jan (see below).
See
Harmon Memorial NW Chess Grand Prix
2009 final results. Checks were mailed to the winners on the 1st of February. Congratulations, and we'll see you again in
2010.
Rusty Miller reports that a "My best games" DVD from GM Yasser
Seirawan is now available for purchase on
ChessBase. Yasser, raised in
Seattle, began playing chess in the summer of 1972 and by 1979 he had
won the World Junior Championship and in January of 1980 earned his
final GM norm.
Memorial – We regret to
announce that Kennedy "Kip" Poyser, who edited 36 issues of
Northwest Chess from November 1975 to October
1978, died suddenly of a heart attack in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on
November 30, 2009. He was 64.
See his son's blog.
Also see the NWC editor page.
Many games from the 2009 WA Class Championships
and WA Challenger's Cup are now available on the
games page in PGN and ChessBase
formats.
 The January 2010 edition of Northwest Chess
has been mailed, however some copies have a printing error (some pages
duplicated, others missing). If your copy is printed/bound incorrectly, please
send an e-mail to info@nwchess.com,
and you can also download the full
January magazine as a PDF file.
Historical list of Northwest Chess and Washington Chess Letter
editors!
See old chess news previously
appearing on this page.
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