Year: 2016
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2016 Washington G/60 Results
Washington Chess Federation reports on Facebook. The 2016 WA G/60 Championship was held at Seattle Chess Club over winter break December 27-28. The tournament was hosted by the Washington Chess Federation and directed by Fred Kleist. 50 players took part in one large open section, up slightly from last year. FM Ignacio Perez repeated as…
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Kornelijs (Neil) Dale RIP
Photo Credit: Russell Miller The info available on USChess website starts in 1991. I believe he played and directed events before that. He was the tournament director for 10 Oregon Closed Championships, the first one in 1994. He directed many events at the Portland Chess Club site and other places also such as Newport and…
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Results of Portland CC Dec G/60 event
14 players took part in the event held at the club site on Dec 17, 2016. Lennart Bjorksten was the chief TD. Gavin Zhang added to his rating because of his 4-0 final score. In the event held in Nov he tied for 3rd and in Oct his 3-0 score tied. CLICK HERE for the US…
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Bellevue 8th grader Naomi Bashkansky wins World School Chess Championship!
Naomi Bashkansky has just won the 2016 World School Chess Championship in the Girls Under 13 category, held on December 2 – 12 in Sochi, Russia. With 5 wins (full points) and 4 draws (half-points), she got 7 points in 9 games, and finished in the first place — without a single loss, undefeated. As a winner she is awarded the Woman…
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Northwest Chess Open results
Duane Polich posted on Facebook: Results are in for the 2016 Northwest Chess Open. Congratulations to Nick Raptis from Washington who took first place with 4.5 points good for $170.00. Nick double dipped over the weekend also tieing for 1st in the Masters Series of events which was hosted on Saturday by Josh Sinanan and…
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Spokane Chess Club report on Kids Event.
Found on Facebook for an event held Nov 19, 2016. Written by the TD James Stripes. Explosive Growth Evident Youth chess in Spokane appears to be growing rapidly, judging by the turn-out at the Pilgrim’s Progress scholastic tournament at Saint George’s School, November 19. There were 83 students in grades K-8 representing 24 schools. The…
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Seattle Chess Club July 9, 2016
I stopped by for a few photos during a tournament. CLICK HERE for the photos. CLICK HERE for xtable of the event plus a Novice event held on Sunday.
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Anthony He becomes Washington’s youngest ever master
Anthony He became Washington State’s youngest ever master on June 5, 2016. Anthony achieved the title at age 11 years, 3 months, and 20 days, breaking the previous record held by FM Roland Feng. Anthony scored 3.5/4 at the WA Open in Lynnwood and gained 21 points to boost his rating to 2199, scoring a win against…
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Portland CC May G/60 Event
CLICK HERE for the pictures I took during the first round on May 20, 2016. CLICK HERE for the link to the xtable.
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Spokane CC event Inland Empire Open
Taken for a Facebook post by Spokane Chess Club. “INLAND EMPIRE OPEN — THREE’S A CROWD!! This year’s installment of the Inland Empire Open ended up with the top three seeds sharing first place and claiming the prizes for first, second, and third. Michael Cambareri, Michael Murray and Pavlo Zaborskyy all scored 4.0 to top…