Note! Sales tax now in effect on NWC magazine subscriptions delivered to Washington addresses. Please see the membership application and the WA sales tax table.

Local Juniors Compete in National Events – The 2008 Denker Tournament of Champions is being held in Dallas, Texas. Northwest players are Ricky Selzler (Washington) and Daniel Gay (Oregon). The 2008 Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls is being held in Lubbock, Texas. Northwest players are Leanne Hwa (Washington) and Taylor Bailey (Oregon).

Update! June Mailing – The June NWC magazine was mailed June 24, and should have arrived! It's a 24-page issue with games from Reno & Tacoma, and the third and final installment of the James Hurt "Martian System" articles reprinted from 1938!

WA-OR Match! Players needed for Washington vs. Oregon chess match, scheduled for Saturday, July 26 in Hoquiam, WA. Interested players contact Harley Greninger, Phone: 360-533-1900, Email: harleyg@prgraysharbor.com. See PDF flyer.

OR Championship! – The Oregon Invitational Championship was contested June 13-15 and 21-22 in Portland. Radu Roua won the event 7-2 to repeat his victory of 2007. Landon Brownell and Nick Raptis tied for 2nd-3rd with 6.5-2.5. Please see the Portland Chess Club website for more information and results!

Chess Olympics! – Fundraising drives are underway for the US and Canadian teams to attend the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, November 12-25, 2008. To donate to the US team, see the USCF website. To donate to the Canadian team, see www.chess.ca/olympiad.htm. Canadian donations will be matched until June 29.

Press Release: Northwest Chess to begin collecting WA sales tax in July.

Now it's Elliott! It must run in the family – First, Raphael Neff of ChessHouse.com got married on Friday, June 13th! (Let's hope it's good luck for Raphael and Joanna!) Now,
Elliott Neff of Chess4Life has announced that he's planning to be married this week!!

U.S. Championship! – The Frank K. Berry U.S. Chess Championship concluded in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Congratulations to U.S. Chess Champion GM Yury Shulman, and to Women's Champion WGM/IM Anna Zatonskih. For more information,
see http://monroi.com/the-2008-fkb-us-chess-championship-home.html.

Standings! Harmon Memorial Northwest Chess Grand Prix – 2008 standings thru April are available, along with complete 2007 GP results. Business manager Eric Holcomb mailed checks to the 2007 winners on Monday, 3/31. See the GP page.

All Juniors! Searchable database of junior players has over 14,000 players and is updated regularly during the scholastic chess season! (Also see http://whsca.org/.)

Terrace Park K-8 PTA-Sponsored Chess Club is looking for two coaches for the 2008-2009 season. See the scholastic coaches wanted page.

Games from the Washington Championship, Premier and Invitational are now available to download. See the main games page.

Active Again! WA Chess Forum (http://wachess.com).

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Emerald City Open in Seattle (June 20-22).

Rusty Miller reports on the Portland G/60 (May 31) – "22 players took part in the event held at the Portland Chess Club. As usual Nick Raptis was number one rated and won the event 4-0. A number of the players were high school students and younger. Neil Dale was the TD.
I played and did okay with 1 win 1 loss and 2 draws."

Washington Open was held Memorial Day Weekend (May 24-26, Redmond, WA). Congratulations to the winners: Open - Ignacio Perez, Nick Raptis, Michael Lee, Charles Cadman, Mark Naus, Andy May (4.5/6.0), Premier - Arie Milner, Peter Lessler (5.0/6.0), Reserve - Daniel Copeland (5.5/6.0), Booster - Quentin Chi (5.5/6.0).

33rd Keres Memorial (May 16-19 in Vancouver, BC) – Eighteen juniors joined this 79-player event, organized and directed by Stephen Wright with assistance from Katherine Davies and Lyle Craver. In Open section, FM Bindi Cheng tied first with IM George Orlov with 5.5/7.0. See http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/news.html for more info.

"BC's chess parents and junior chess organizers congratulate WA organizers, coaches/teachers, parents, and particularly these young chess players for their success: 1,414 players at 2008 WA State Elementary Chess Championships!" (Apr 26 in Redmond, WA.) See http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/search/index3.html.

Grandmaster and former US Chess Champion Hikaru Nakamura was at the championships, and was scheduled to take on a group of kids in a simultaneous exhibition!
See http://www.hikarunakamura.com/ for background info on Nakamura.

Inland Empire Open in Spokane (Apr 26-27) – Winner: Paul Bartron (4.5/5).

Portland CC Game in 60 (Apr 26) – Winner: Nick Raptis (4/4).

Clark Harmon Memorial Open in Portland (April 19-20). The winner was Radu Roua with 4.5 points, drawing IM John Donaldson in round 5. At 4-1 were John Donaldson, Nick Raptis, Steve Breckenridge and Michael Morris. There were 40 players.

WA-BC International Scholastic Chess Match, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Apr 19). Congratulations to the BC team, winning by a score of 32-20 over the WA state team.
See http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/news.html. New! See WA team photo album online.

OSCF State Championship (K-12), Seaside OR (Apr 11-12). The third annual Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation State Championship was a huge success! See www.oscf.org.

Congratulations to Idaho state champion Jason Evers, winner of the 2nd Alzheimer's Benefit Chess Tournament in Bend, OR (April 13) with a perfect 3 out of 3 score. Your business manager, Eric Holcomb, finished in second place after a tie-break. Also see Sean Tobin's blog at http://cocjournal.blogspot.com/.

Daffodil Open was held in Tacoma (April 12-13). The winner was Mike Macgregor with 4.5 out of 5 points. There were 19 players, including some we hadn't seen in awhile!

Seattle Spring Open (March 28-30). There was an excellent turnout of over 50!

Congratulations to Larry Ball, winner of the Portland Chess Club March G/60, with a perfect score of 4 out of 4!

Oregon High School Chess Team Association (OHSCTA) reports on results of championship held February 22-23 in Roseburg. Photos: A scene of the action in the playing hall (left); Sunset high school Varsity and JV team that won two titles (right).

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