Terrace Park K-8 PTA-Sponsored Chess Club is looking for two coaches
for the 2008-2009 season. See the
scholastic coaches wanted page.
Local Juniors Compete in National Events – The
2008 Denker Tournament of Champions was held in Dallas, Texas.
Northwest players were Ricky Selzler (Washington) and Daniel Gay
(Oregon). The 2008 Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls was held in Lubbock, Texas. Northwest players
were Leanne Hwa (Washington)
and Taylor Bailey (Oregon).
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 Elliott and Camilla were married, and celebrated their wedding with
a reception on August 2nd in Redmond, Washington.
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.
"Wenatchee
Scholastic Chess Club caters to young players" article in
Wenatchee World newspaper. (March 12, 2008)
Relocation! Your
business manager has relocated to Bend, Oregon. See the
magazine information page for a new mailing
address; mail sent to the old
address will be forwarded. Note that the business manager's old phone
number (253-850-2996) is now a voice mail service, and is advertised in
the Verizon Yellow Pages.
Interesting!
Article "Was It Only a Game?" by Dick Cavett on Bobby Fischer,
plus a video of Cavett's 1971 interview of Fischer, a year before he won
the world championship!
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/was-it-only-a-game/?ref=opinion.
Kevin Korsmo appointed to Washington Court of Appeals
– See article in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, "New
appeals judge knows way around chessboard."
GM Yasser Seirawan video,
explaining why he created S-Chess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nht2TqabPr0.
Seirawan Chess
kits and matching Marshall sets and boards are available for sale!
Prices are: S-chess kit (two elephants and two hawks): $10.00; matching
Marshall sets and boards: $50.00. You can see photos at
http://www.seirawanchess.com/advantages.html.
If you'd like to buy one, please contact Bruce Harper at
bruce@seirawanchess.com.
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer, 1943-2008 – One of
the world's greatest chess geniuses, Bobby Fischer, died at the age of
64, according to Icelandic national TV and radio.
Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said the former world chess champion died in
a Reykjavik hospital on January 17. The US-born former world chess
player, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet
Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. In
the words of former WCF president Kent McNall, "This fills me with
sadness. I remember so clearly the TIME magazine cover in my doctor's
office as a kid. Bobby Fischer made me want to play chess, and I've done
so my whole life because of him. I grew to believe he was not sane in
later life – and for that reason I did not hold him responsible for the
terrible things he said. To me, he'll always be a tragic genius ... but
one of my heroes in life." Well said, Kent. Also, here's an
excellent piece by King County Councilman Bob Ferguson about Fischer
which appeared in the January 24 edition of The Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004141350_bobbyfischer24.html?syndication=rss.
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