Washington
State - British Columbia Match – Held on Saturday, December 6, 2003 in B.C.,
for the first time since 1976!
See a match report and some
more photos.
Left:
Washington team.
Right:
British Columbia team.
Click on photos to
enlarge.
2003 Washington
Class Championships – This popular annual tournament was held at the
Radisson Hotel SeaTac Airport Thanksgiving weekend.
See some photos.
2003 Oregon Open
— this event took place August 30 to
September 1, over Labor Day Weekend.
David Roper, Bill Schill, and Ben Lin tied for
1st with 5 points each (out of 6 games). See the linked web site for
photos.
2003 Washington
Open — this event
took place May 24-26, over Memorial Day Weekend. The co-winners were
Nick Raptis from Oregon and Huso Hadzic from Washington.
Left:
cover of the June issue of Northwest Chess magazine, featuring the
Washington Open winners. Click on "NWC Magazine" at left for
subscription information.
Center: Nick Raptis. Right: Huso Hadzic. Click on
the images to enlarge.
2003 Washington State
Chess Championships — Slava Mikhailiuk won the Washington State Chess
Championship last February with an excellent score of 7 points out of 9. Congratulations to Slava for also winning the 2003
Seafair Open!
2003 United States Chess Championships
— Sponsored by
America's Foundation for Chess,
the United States Chess Championships were held in Seattle, Washington
each of the past three years. Alexander Shabalov won the overall
championship with a score of 6½ out of 9, and
