24 players took part in the event on Dec 16th. Fred Kleist of Seattle was the tournament\u00a0director. From the USCF website,\u00a0he sure has run a lot of events since 1991.
\nTournaments as Chief Director 680 (since Jan. 1,\u00a01991)
\nSections Directed 1699 (in 688 events since Jan. 1,\u00a01991)
\nOther Events Worked 26 (since Jan. 1, 1991)
\nTotal Sections Worked 1908 (in 729 events since Jan. 1, 1991)<\/p>\n
Now for the tournament results. 24 players took part in the event on Dec 16th. Fred Kleist of Seattle was the tournament\u00a0director. From the USCF website,\u00a0he sure has run a lot of events since 1991. Tournaments as Chief Director 680 (since Jan. 1,\u00a01991) Sections Directed 1699 (in 688 events since Jan. 1,\u00a01991) Other Events Worked 26 (since Jan. 1, 1991) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-seattle-chess-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere was a tie for first place between Patrick Van Dyke of Maple Valley WA and Bryce Tiglon of WA at 3.5-.5. They drew with each other in round four. Three players had 3-1: Daniel and Samuel He of Redmond plus Noah Fields of Tacoma. USCF crosstable link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"