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Last update: June 27, 2015.

Games

Historical Events and Publications

Includes "Best of Northwest Chess" collection of articles.
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Instructional

• Interesting series of instructional articles by former Washington State Chess Champion James Hurt, republished from 1938: (PDF files)

  The Martian System in Chess, Part 1

  The Martian System in Chess, Part 2

  The Martian System in Chess, Part 3

• More instructional articles are appearing in Northwest Chess every month!
  See the magazine back issues page for available online issues.

Meeting Minutes

Miscellaneous

• An Inconvenient Chessic Coincidence? – by Eric Holcomb

News (items previously appearing on NWC home page)

• Old news page (2004 to date)

• Old tournament news page (2003 to date)

People

Includes interviews, memorials, etc. Also see the "Historical Events and Publications" section for more articles about famous chess players and their games.

Press Releases

Reviews

• TWO MASTERS FROM SEATTLE on a CD by IM John Donaldson,
  review by Russell Miller.

• GAME THEORY by Louis Menand (Spassky vs. Fischer revisited)

Rules

• Blitz chess rules

• Bughouse chess rules

• Chess 960 rules (courtesy of Chess Tigers and chess960.com)

Scholastic Chess

Videos

• Dr. Joseph Wagner (former chairman, USCF Senior Committee), "The Beauty of Chess" lecture from May 2010 covering many interesting subjects including chess art, chess sets, and historical chess masters. (224MB file)

• Columbia University School of Journalism student production:
  Masters & Hustlers (including interviews with Josh Waitzkin and Hikaru Nakamura)

• Physicist Richard Feynman "on the rules of chess" on Jacksonville Florida chess site.

• Of course a large number of chess videos are available at youtube.com! Examples:

  • U.S. Chess Federation YouTube channel.

  • 51 seconds of live film footage of the USA vs. RUSSIA match held in Moscow, 1946. Included are Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassily Smslov, Samuel Reshevsky, Arnold Denker, and Arthur Dake. See the video.

  • Video of American GM Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985) appearing on the TV show You Bet Your Life in the 1950's. See the video (Kashdan appears in the first half). | See Kashdan's wikipedia page.

  • Dr. Leo (Leo Stefurak) on Chess History.

  • 2003 US Chess Championships Closing Ceremony in Seattle –
    Awards Presentations for Alexander Shabalov and Anna Hahn.

  • Yasser Seirawan: A Personal Story (June 18, 2013 at World Chess Hall of Fame).
    Also search for "Yasser Seirawan chess lectures" on YouTube - there are quite a few!