Category: Scholastic

  • Spokane CC reports on Facebook

    Spokane Chess Club, Spokane, WA “Pioneer School Wins Queen’s Crown Scholastic Pioneer School prevailed in the strongest team competition Spokane area scholastic tournament have seen in the past few years. The school’s top four accumulated 13.5 points to prevail over Saint George’s School’s 12.5. Close behind were The Oaks Academy (12), Cataldo (12), and host…

  • Anthony He leads Northwest Players at World Youth

    Anthony finished the tournament with 7.5 points out of 11 (5 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss) and ranked 14th place out of 185 players in the U10 section. Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – World Youth Ch 2015 – Open under 10. Other related stories (added by NWC Business Manager): “Grabinsky brings home top US score…

  • Oregon All Stars Results

    On Oct 9, 2015 there was a many sections scholastic event held in Salem. Jeff Dobbins was the chief TD. Chess Ratings Northwest Crosstable, CLICK HERE. The US Chess Crosstables for 16 sections can be found, CLICK HERE. More info can be found on the Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation website, CLICK HERE. 16 kids Played…

  • Washington Kids do well at US Open side events

    WA Fields, Noah Denni 2105 4.5 Denker High School. WA Olin, Neo Edward 2029 4 Barber K-8. WA Dhingra, Sangeeta 1909 4 National Girls. Total points for Washington Players of 12.5 placed them in 3rd place among the states that had players in all three events. For Info about other states CLICK HERE. CLICK HERE…

  • Washington Girl Did Well In St. Louis

    Photo Credit: Paul Truong. Guy Bashkansky reports: Naomi Bashkansky won 1st place in the Under-12 category at the annual Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational Chess Championship in St. Louis, where she represented Washington State. Also, she shared 2nd place in Blitz (speed chess). CLICK HERE for BLITZ Crosstable. The reward is $1,000 assistance from SPF…

  • Chess School in Seattle

    WCF President Joshua Sinanan made a post on Facebook recently. United States Chess School in Seattle, Washington. Greg Shahade “It was an honor and a pleasure to work with all of these talented young players over the past four days at our USCS camp here in Seattle. Look forward to seeing all of them again…

  • Young Oregon Boy does well in Mexico Chess Event

    Article on Oregon Live, about 11-year-old boy from Coquille. CLICK HERE.

  • Washington Vs British Columbia Scholastic Match Results

    Editor’s note: The annual BC-WA match was held on Saturday, May 2, 2015, in Bellevue, WA at the Chess4Life location. See the linked article below for details. CLICK Here for crosstable. Washington won the match. CLICK Here for article about the match by Victoria Jung-Doknhas of BC.

  • Odle Middle School Succeeds in Nashville!

    Odle Middle School Succeeds in Nashville by Ludmila Bashkansky Following its triumph at the State Elementary championships, the Odle Chess Team continued its winning ways both nationally and internationally. At the US National Chess Championships in Nashville, Odle sixth graders WCM Naomi Bashkansky, Brian Chen, James Lai, Aidan Lawler, and Richard Yang took home a…

  • APP at Lincoln Dragons from Seattle shine at Elementary Nationals

    2015 USCF National Elementary (K-6) Championship, Nashville, TN FINAL RESULTS Main Tournament K-1 CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION – 4th in the United States of America Owen Xuan – 6 points – (10th Place Individual Trophy) Samuel Tran – 5 points – (30th Place Individual Trophy) Griffin Rosenberg – 4 points Nathan Race – 3.5 points K-5 CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION –…