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Next weekend!
– Seattle Chess Club Championship begins (Sep 10);
Portland Saturday Quads (Sep 11); Tacoma Mini-Swiss (Sep
11); Seattle Sunday Tornado (Sep 12) –
See
calendar page and TA page
for more info.
This Tuesday! (Sep
7) Seattle Sluggers
(U.S. Chess League) match vs. Miami Sharks –
see full schedule.
Match starts at 6:00 PM PDT at Chess4Life Chess Center, 13555 Bel-Red Rd.
Ste #200, Bellevue, WA.
You can make a donation to the
Sluggers at
http://www.uschessleague.com/Seattle.html.
 The
September Northwest Chess magazine, just mailed, is a
24-page issue with a USCF Delegate Report, "Washington Championship Games"
by Howard Chen, "Harmon Memorial Report" by Gary Dorfner, "Championship
Training" by Corey Russell, "Ernst Rasmussen BDG Tournament" by Stephen
Chase and articles by Harley Greninger, Bill McGeary and Dana Muller, and
another GP update by Murlin Varner. Cover photo: August Piper by
Philip Peterson.
Seirawan
photos! Photos by Rusty Miller of
Yasser Seirawan's delayed 50th birthday party at Chess4Life in
Bellevue! (Held Aug. 23 during first Seattle Sluggers match of the season.)
2010
Washington Open games now available –
See the games page.
The August Northwest Chess magazine, previously mailed, is a 32-page issue with "Championship Training" by Corey
Russell, "Games Corner" by Charles Schulien, "Stevenson Elementary at
Nationals" by parents and Elliott Neff, "Rogers – Rompogren" by
Bill Rogers and Ralph Dubisch, "Correspondence Chess" by Stephen Chase,
"Book Review: Chess Duels" by Randy Kaech, articles by Harley Greninger,
Bill McGeary and Dana Muller, and another GP update by Murlin Varner.
Northwest Chess Grand Prix standings
for 2010 were updated again on 7/31. Naming of this year's Grand
Prix is still on hold pending more donations.
Video! Dr. Joseph
Wagner (former chairman, USCF Senior Committee),
"The Beauty of Chess" lecture from May 2010 covering many
interesting subjects including chess art, chess sets, and historical
chess masters. (224MB video file)
 750th Issue! June marked the
750th issue of Northwest Chess magazine (including the early years when
it was Washington Chess Letter). This special issue was delayed,
and turned into a larger (48-page) combined June-July issue. It was printed and mailed
before the end of June.
See the press release. You can
also access the June-July magazine PDF file
online.
Follow the games and results at the Canadian Youth Chess
Championships in Ontario. See
http://monroi.com/2010-cycc-games.html.
Russell Miller has identified a new chess books website,
http://www.chessbookstore.com/.
Rusty also gave four boxes of copies of Chess Life
magazine to Cameron's Books and Magazines, Portland's Oldest Used
Bookstore, 336 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97204. The years are 1960s to
present with duplicates. See
www.cameronsbooks.com for more information on the store.
 In Memoriam – Northwest Chess regrets to announce
the death of Cinthia McBride (1916-2010), Portland Chess Club
member and former Oregon Women's Chess Champion.
See the full obituary
(PDF file). Cinthia also made a generous donation to
Northwest Chess Knights a few years ago, which
was greatly appreciated.
New international student exchange host family
opportunity posted – see NWC
opportunity page.
The Seattle Times ran a
story and video about Roland Feng, a third-grader from
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle who recently won the
national K-3 Championship. In the video, Roland plays 16 of his
classmates simultaneously, winning all 16 games!
Seirawan Chess! As part of the revamped
Seirawan Chess web site,
FM Jack Yoos, one of the top S-chess players in
Canada, is taking on the World, similar to the "Kasparov vs. the
World" game a few years ago. The schedule will be roughly one move for
each side each week. Jack's move will be posted on Sunday evening, with
voters having until the following Saturday to respond. If you'd like to
participate, see
http://www.seirawanchess.com/world. Seirawan Chess is a chess
variant in which each side introduces two extra pieces onto the board
during the opening.
New Book! Yasser Seirawan also has a new book,
Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions.
See the
story on ChessBase news, or check with your favorite chess or book
seller.
Chess master Jude Acers
speaks about
the Saints Super Bowl win on Open Sound New Orleans! (The
story was actual posted in February, but just discovered by Rusty
Miller.)
Chessboxing!
Video story from The Seattle Times about this wild
combination of blitz chess and boxing at the University
of Washington!
See old news previously appearing on this
page.
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