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Historical Events and Publications

"Best of Northwest Chess" – A collection of articles from Washington Chess Letter, Northwest Chess Letter and Northwest Chess identified by former editor and business manager Russell (Rusty) Miller.

Recent Events

• Recent Events (2003 to date) by year

Other articles and historical information:
Note: Some articles have been moved to the "Best of Northwest Chess" page linked above. Also note that articles about specific persons are available on the "People Articles" page.

• Acers, Jude - collection of his articles on the California Chess History site.

• British Columbia - History including B.C. vs. Washington Matches.

  Photo of an early (1946 or 1947) BC-WA match, from the California Chess News.

• California Chess History (many articles and publication back issues available).

• Editors List (WCL and NWC).

• Idaho Chess Association history page.

• Idaho Chess History Project.

• Log Cabin Chess Club, 1954 PNW tour from The Log Cabin Chess Derivatives, Reported by IM John Donaldson - E. Forry Laucks and his Log Cabin Chess Club from East Orange, New Jersey, toured the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 1954. The scan shows they covered a lot of territory. In addition to the matches listed they were also in Coeur d'Alene (Sept. 3), Vancouver (Sept. 7) and Wyoming.

• Oregon Scholastic Chess Tournament History, 1967-1984 by Clay Kelleher (2007) with additions by Russell Miller (2014)

• Oregon Open Champions 1948 to Date.

• Oregon State Chess Champions 1961 to Date.

• Puget Sound Chess News, Sep. 1946 to Feb. 1947 (PDF file of scans)

• Misc. 1932 from The Chess Reporter published in California.

• Nov 1948 article from the The Independent newspaper (part of the Long Beach, CA Press-Telegram) about WA chess champion Olaf Ulvestad and the Russians.

• Seattle World's Fair (1962) chess event - see photo currently on the homepage.

• Sheets, Leonard (former WA chess champion) - photo/article in May 1946 Seattle Daily Times about his activities as a golfer!

• Soviet Chess by James McCormick from July 1961 WCL (PDF file of scan).

• Spokane Chess History (on the Spokane club's website).

• Spokane vs. Nelson, BC match - report from American Chess Bulletin, 1910, page 184. Supplied by IM John Donaldson.

• Staunton, columns from the Illustrated London News, 1845-1874, compiled by Jon Crumiller.
  (Link is to an Excel spreadsheet of links to the actual columns.)

• U.S. Junior Open report, from Oct. 1978 NWC. (Note: Winner was Yasser Seirawan.)

• New! Washington Open Champions 1992 to Date.

• Washington State Chess Champions 1862 to Date.
  A Short History of the Washington State Championship by IM John Donaldson from the April 1993 edition of NWC. (PDF file of scans)

• Washington Chess Letter scanning project (on a separate page).

• Washington Chess Letter/NWC recaps by Russell Miller (on a separate page).

• Washington Chess Letter/NWC cover images by Russell Miller (on a separate page).

• 1957 Washington Open (actually held Oct 20-21, 1956) in Spokane.
  Articles in PDF format, with a page of cartoons!

• March 5-7, 1971 Northwest Invitational Chess Tournament, Park-Haviland Hotel Portland, OR. Article from May 1971 Chess Life. | CBV format games file.