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• Our games viewer has been updated to the Chessbase viewer, which has many modern features. You can view games from the Washington and Oregon state championships and some other regional chess tournaments in your browser. See the games page.

Note: See calendar for more info about upcoming chess events.

June-July - Advertised Chess Events

• See calendar for more info about upcoming chess events, including ad links.
• Jun 28 SCC It’s Summertime! (close ratings) (Rd 4), Seattle, WA
• Jun 29-30 WA vs BC Challenge Match, Richmond, BC
• Jul 5, 12, 19, 26 SCC Hot as Hades, Seattle, WA
• Jul 6 SCC Saturday Quads, Seattle, WA
• Jul 13-14 Seattle Seafair Open, Seattle, WA
• Jul 13 Seafair Hand-and-Brain Blitz, Seattle, WA
• Jul 14 Seattle Seafair Blitz, Seattle, WA
• Jul 20-21 Vancouver Open, Vancouver, WA
• Jul 21 SCC Sunday Tornado, Seattle, WA
• Jul 27 Simul with GM Emil Anka at SCC, Seattle, WA

July-August - Scholastic Events

• Chess4Life is offering live virtual chess classes/camps.
• Aug 17 Seattle Summer Sizzler, Lakeside, Seattle, WA
• Aug 18 Seattle Classic Scholastic, Lakeside, Seattle, WA

Important note: All extra copies of Northwest Chess are received and handled by Josh Sinanan. If you would like to request an extra copy or didn't receive your copy in the mail, please contact Josh, joshsinanan@gmail.com. Eric Holcomb is no longer the Business Manager. Please mail all checks and other written items to the Orlov Chess Academy address at the top of this page.

International Exchange Students - Youth for Understanding has a few international exchange students needing a host family this upcoming school year beginning in August. See the flyer with a resume for each availble student, or contact Olive Elwell, oelwell@yfu.org.

Young Master! Ted Wang, a 4th grader from St. Thomas School in Medina, became Washington State's youngest ever master on June 15. Ted achieved the title at the age of 10 years, 6 months, and 26 days, breaking the previous record held by IM Anthony He (11 yrs, 3 months, 20 days). Ted scored 2/2 at the Seattle Chess Club June Quads, hosted at the Seattle Chess Club in Greenlake and gained 21 points to boost his US Chess rating to 2211, scoring wins against LM Viktors Pupols (2200) and NM Yiding Lu (2231). Congratulations Ted! Also see the July NWC teaser edition. Photo courtesy of U.S. Chess.

July magazine! The July 2024 issue of Northwest Chess was mailed on Friday, June 28. It's a 32-page issue with "Ted Wang Becomes Washington’s Youngest Ever NM" by Josh Sinanan, "2024 Oregon Senior Open" by Wilson Gibbins, "2nd Annual Eastside Open," "Second Annual Bellingham Open" and "Rockefeller + Barber Closed" by Josh Sinanan, "SCC 2nd Annual Friday Night Championship Invitational" by John Selsky and Fred Kleist, "Surreal" by Glen O’Harra, "Western States Regional CC For Woman And Girls" by Chouchan Airapetian, "Building Community Through Chess" by Ken Lee, and a back-cover photo of Megan Lee by Meiling Cheng. Cover: Dominic Colombo by Josh Sinanan. See the teaser edition (selected pages). The teaser edition contains the Gelareh Golanbar interview, but it's also available as a separate PDF file here.

June magazine! The June 2024 issue of Northwest Chess should have been mailed on Friday, May 31. It's a 32-page issue with "2024 Idaho Scholastic Chess Champion James Wei" by Jeffrey Roland, "Yiding Lu (Washington’s Newest National Master)" by Ani Barua, "Washington President’s Cup" by Josh Sinanan, "Interview With Bruce Pandolfini" by Ken Lee, "2024 Harmon Memorial," "2024 Washington State Barber And Rockefeller Open," "St. Anne Celtic Challenge Spring 2024," "Lakeside Spring Fling" and "Second Annual Detective Cookie Chess Classic" by Josh Sinanan, and a back-cover photo of "Selina Cheng With Her New Best Friend" by Meiling Cheng. Cover: Yiding Lu at The Harmon Memorial by Meiling Cheng. See the teaser edition (selected pages). The teaser edition contains the Bruce Pandolfini interview, but it's also available as a separate PDF file here.

Newest National Master! Congratulations to Yiding Lu of Bellevue, Wash., who recently became Washington State's newest National Master! Yiding achieved a US Chess rating of 2227 as a result of winning Scheveningen Group 3 of the 1000GM April BonaFIDE and Scheveningen Tournament, held in San Jose, Calif., April 20-21, 2024. Along the way, Yiding scored clutch wins against Cesar Zuluaga (2268), Diego Blandon (2228), Luis Rodi (2257), and Arturo Morales (2214). Congratulations, Yiding! See the US Chess crosstable. Photo: Yiding Lu at the San Jose event (taken by Juan Cendejas, organizer of the tournament, and supplied by Ani Barua).

May magazine! The May 2024 issue of Northwest Chess was mailed on Monday, April 29. It's a 32-page issue with "Siddharth Bhaskaran and Aarav Bharathy Mohan" (photo) by Meiling Cheng, "Interview with Alexandra Botez" by Ken Lee, "Washington State Championship" by Josh Sinanan, "The Late August Piper" (September 2010 Issue Cover) by Philip Peterson, Photographer & Ralph Dubisch, Editor, and a back-cover photo of Siddharth Bhaskaran by Meiling Cheng. Cover: Josh Sinanan and Daniel He by Meiling Cheng. See the teaser edition (selected pages). The teaser edition contains the Alexandra Botez interview, but it's also available as a separate PDF file here.

April magazine! The April 2024 issue of Northwest Chess was mailed on Friday 3/29. It's a 32-page issue with "2024 Inland Classic" by Kevin Korsmo, "2024 Oregon Girls Championship" by Wilson Gibbins, "2024 Idaho Closed" by Jeffrey Roland, "Interview With Attorney General Bob Ferguson" by Ken Lee, "2024 Oregon Closed" by Wilson Gibbins, "Washington Junior Open & Reserve," "Washington High School Individual," "Washington WInter Game/60" and "Presidential Scholastic" by Josh Sinanan, "Howard Chin (1947-2021)" by John Donaldson, and a back-cover photo of Walter van Heemstede Obelt by James Stripes. Cover: Brian Lee by James Stripes. See the teaser edition (selected pages). The teaser edition contains the Bob Ferguson interview, but it's also available as a separate PDF file here.

See old news previously appearing on this page.

Some local tournament reports were previously posted to the Northwest Chess (NWC) blog, found at http://www.nwchess.com/blog/. Links are to NWC blog post or other report, usually US Chess or scholastic rating report. However, blogging activity has stopped. If you are interesting in blogging for your club's events, please let us know.

Photo: Miranda Meng, a 4th grader at Open Window School in Bellevue, who won 1st Place (on tie break) at the 2024 All-Girls Nationals in Chicago.

Scholastic Events (March-April): Apr 20 WA vs BC Intermat, Microsoft, Redmond, WA Apr 20 Cascadia Chess Tournament (K-8), Ferndale, WA Apr 12-14 2024 All-Girls National Championship, Chicago, IL Apr 6 Barber/Rockefeller Closed, Greenlake OCA Office, Seattle, WA Mar 30 Roshen’s Chess Academy Scholastic K-12 Chess Tournament, Portland, OR Mar 24 Det. Cookie Tournament, Rainier Beach CC, Seattle, WA Mar 23 Lakeside Spring Fling, Lakeside, Seattle, WA Mar 17 St. Anne Celtic Spring Challenge, St. Anne School, Seattle, WA Mar 16 Barber/Rockefeller Open, Chinook, Bellevue, WA Mar 10 Jing Mei Phoenix Sscholastic Chess Tournament, Bellevue, WA Mar 2 Intermat Candidates Tournament, Lakeside, Seattle, WA

Photo: Action in the playing room at the Bellingham Open. Credit: Kyle Boddy, Bellingham Chess Club.

Open or Invitational Events (March-April): Apr 28 SCC Novice, Seattle, WA Apr 27 SCC Saturday Quads, Seattle, WA Apr 26 SCC April Showers (Rd 4), Seattle, WA Apr 21 Bellingham Open, Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA Apr 20-21 SCC Adult Swiss, Seattle, WA Apr 14 SCC Sunday Tornado, Seattle, WA Apr 13-14 Western States Regional for Women and Girls, Seattle, WA Mar 30 Eastside Open, IHCC, Issaquah, WA Mar 30 SCC Saturday Quads, Seattle, WA Mar 23-24 Seattle Spring Open, Seattle, WA Mar 23 Al Forthan Memorial Scholarship Chess Tournament Fundraiser, Portland, OR Mar 17 SCC Sunday Tornado, Seattle, WA Mar 16 SCC Novice, Seattle, WA Mar 10 SCC G/20 Hexes, Seattle, WA Mar 9 SCC Saturday Quads, Seattle, WA Mar 2-3 Harmon Memorial, Lakeside, Seattle, WA