Russell Miller arranged an e-mail chess match between players from Dubrovnik Croatia and Vancouver Washington. It has been proposed by a group in Vancouver that the two cities become sister cities. When the newspaper in Vancouver announced this Russell tried to contact some chess players in Dubrovnik and Vancouver about a 6 board e-mail match. Nothing has come so far of the sister city bit but the chess match happened.
Andy May (V) drew with Ivan Bender, Matthew Goshen (V) lost to Ivo Ivankovic, Micah Smith (V) beat Bajro Saric, Sarah May (V) drew with Zdenko Bender, Russell Miller (V) lost to Faruk Losic and Aaron Probst (V) lost to Srecko Tomic.