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CHESS NEWS FROM WASHINGTON AND OREGON

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Seattle, WA 98124-6046

Games

Thanks to Drayton Harrison for compiling most of these games (2006 to date).
Thanks to Harley Greninger for the 2008 WA vs. OR match games.
Thanks to Fred Kleist for compiling the 2009 WA state championship games.
Thanks to Bill McGeary for the Silverdale games.
Thanks to IM John Donaldson and others as noted for the older games.
See Tacoma Chess Club website for games played at TCC events.
See the United States Chess League games page for game scores from USCL matches. This includes games from former Oregon champion Oleg Zaikov (he now plays for Carolina) as well as other well-known players.
See the British Columbia Chess Federation - Database of Chess Games.

File Format Notes:

CBV type files are Chessbase archive databases. They can be opened with Fritz, ChessBase, ChessBase Light, ChessBase Reader, and Chess Assistant. If you don't have one of these chess programs, you can go to www.chessbase.com and download the free ChessBase Light.
PGN (Portable Game Notation) type files can be opened with almost any chess program, and also any text editor such as MS-Word or Notepad.
We've added MyChessViewer 2.2 from MyChess.com, which allows you to view games in the PGN files directly in your browser. (Click on the corresponding .htm file in the MyChessViewer column to open the viewer.)

Additional File Format Notes from Drayton:

The ChessBase (cbv) files have the best annotations and I recommend that everyone should get ChessBase on their computer. There are two free versions of ChessBase (CB Light and CB Reader) available with limited features.
When I convert the ChessBase file to PGN it loses several features: 1) all medals and colored arrows and squares; 2) Diagrams will say "Diagram" in the text but it doesn't print real diagrams anymore, even if you convert it back to ChessBase. 3) Chess symbols & fonts such as "+/=" are not readable unless you open the PGN file with ChessBase on a windows computer.

Event: Oregon Championship (Invitational)
Year	Files for download	MyChessViewer
2010	ORChamp10.cbv \| ORChamp10.pgn	ORChamp10.htm

Event: Washington Championship, Premier and (beginning in 2008) Invitational

Year Files for download MyChessViewer

2010 WAChamp10.pgn WAChamp10.htm

2009 WAChamp09.pgn WAChamp09.htm

2008 WAChamp08.cbv | WAChamp08.pgn WAChamp08.htm

2007 WAChamp07.pgn | WAChamp07.pdf (final crosstables)
There are two games in the Premier with missing or indecipherable scoresheets: (1) Calpo-Ballard (2) Smith-Cloy. WAChamp07.htm

Event: Washington Open
Year	Files for download	MyChessViewer
2010	WAOpen10.cbv \| WAOpen10.pgn	WAOpen10.htm
2009	Not available
2008	WAOpen08.cbv \| WAOpen08.pgn	WAOpen08.htm
2007	WAOpen07.cbv \| WAOpen07.pgn The Chessbase file has about 20 games with some commentary.	WAOpen07.htm

Event: Washington Class Championships
Year	Files for download	MyChessViewer
2009	WAClass09.cbv \| WAClass09.pgn	WAClass09.htm
2008	WAClass08.cbv (some comments) \| WAClass08.pgn (no comments)	WAClass08.htm
2007	WAClass07.cbv \| USCF Cross Tables (HTML file) WAClass07_annotated.pgn (some annotations) WAClass07_nocomments.pgn (no annotations) Thanks to all who played in the tournament, submitted readable score sheets, and who assisted me with the bulletin. – Drayton	WAClass07.htm (annotated version)
2006	WAClass06.cbv (complete) \| WAClass06_update.cbv (update) WAClass06.pgn (complete) \| WAClass06_update.pgn (update)	WAClass06.htm
2006 notes: There is no commentary in the PGN files because some chess programs have compatibility issues with annotated games. The "Update" version of both files contains 10 additional games and corrected games as follows: 1) Additional games that were published in Northwest Chess magazine. 2) Updated commentary of some games that were published in Northwest Chess. 3) Correction of moves to Inglis-Woodlief game. The complete version also contains corrected player names (Ignacio Perez and Dennis McGuire).

Event: Washington Challengers Cup
Year	Files for download	MyChessViewer
2009	WAChCup09.pgn	WAChCup09.htm
2008	WAChCup08.pgn	WAChCup08.htm
2007	WAChCup07.cbv \| WAChCup07.pgn	WAChCup07.htm

Silverdale Events
Year/Event	Files for download	MyChessViewer
2009 Silverdale Beach Open	Silverdale_200910.pgn (five selected games)	Silverdale_200910.htm

Year/Event	Files for download	MyChessViewer
2008 WA vs. OR Match	WAvsOR2008.pgn	WAvsOR2008.htm
1980 Seattle-Berkeley Match	Seattle-Berkeley1980.cbv (contributed by IM John Donaldson)
New! Northwest Database (Part 2)	NWC_games_2.cbv (contributed by IM John Donaldson) 1,169 new additions to the NW database, including all games from the 2000, 2002 and 2003 US Championships, games from the 1966 and 1987 US Opens, games of Ulvestad and Zemgalis, and some early games from George McCullough's scrapbook and research done by Casey Bush of early Portland chess.
1971 to 1997 Northwest Database	NWC_1971to1997.cbv 4,618 games played in the Pacific Northwest, compiled by IM John Donaldson, Mike Neeley and Phil McCready.
1971 NW (Portland) Invitational	Portland_Inv_1971.cbv Contributed by Andy Ansel – This 6-player event was won by Robert Zuk. See article from Chess Life.

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