Category: Scholastic
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Daniel He repeats as winner of Washington Junior Closed
Congratulations to Daniel He for winning the Washington Junior Closed two years in a row! This is a six-player annual invitational tournament of the best junior chess players in Washington. Daniel He finished with 4 of 5 points, drawing twice but going undefeated. Ethan Bashkansky finished a close second with 3.5, drawing three times (including…
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Kingco Scholastic Chess League report
Patrick Van Dyke Reports on Facebook KingCo Chess League Week 5 Update: Only five weeks in our regular season, and Interlake A won the KingCo regular season title in rather anticlimactic fashion, with a 5-0 drubbing of their D team. Redmond looked well on their way to locking up second place in the league, but…
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KingCo Chess League Starts 2014-15 Season
Patrick Van Dyke reports on Facebook: KingCo Chess League: Round 1: The KingCo Chess League got underway today at Interlake High School. Fourteen teams, representing ten unique schools, gathered for the inaugural round. In the first of five Swiss rounds, the favorites mostly prevailed by 5-0 or 4-1 scores. The big surprise: 10th ranked Issaquah…
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New Oregon Jr. Champ
Yogi Saputra, a senior at Clackamas High School, won the 2014 Oregon Junior Closed. The event was a 6 player round robin played at G/90; d5 time control. He was the top rated player in the event and scored 3.5-1.5. The sponsoring affiliate was the Oregon Chess Federation. Michael Morris of Portland was the tournament director for…
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Washington results: Blitz Championship and Challengers Cup
Two important annual events recently took place in Washington (reported by WCF secretary Gary Dorfner): The Washington State Blitz Championship was held at Cross Roads Mall in Bellevue on October 11, 2014. There were 32 players participating in this event. This year’s winner is Roland Feng with 11.5 points. 2nd and 3rd places were shared by…
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Northwest well represented in 2014 SPFGI
Reported by Frank Niro. Four girls from the region participated in this year’s Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational held on the campus of Webster University in suburban St. Louis, July 10-15, 2014. Olga Cheraphkin of Washington finished with four points to finish in a 7th place tie in the six-round 56-player event. Olga lost only to…
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Dragonslayer Results
James Stripes directed a scholastic event in Spokane on March 22, 2014. Ryan Waters of Northwest Christian School in Spokane won the 28 player K-3 section with 5-0 score. Ethan Naresh of Northwest Christian School topped the K-6 section which had 25 players. Savanna Naccarato of Farman Elementary in Sandpoint, Idaho won the K-12 section…
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Chessmates Springfest Scholastic Results
Photo Credit: Bruce Haley. The Chessmates group of Seattle held a large scholastic event in Seattle at Broadview Thompson Elementary on March 15. Directors were Georgi Orlov and Mr. Bo Cao. Two players topped the 67 player K-1st grade section, Milo Wright of Pathfinder Elementary in Seattle and Griffin O’Connor of Stevens Elementary in Seattle…
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Napavine Scholastic Event Results
Chess4Life held a tournament in Napavine, Washington, at the Napavine Elementary School on March 15, 2014. Darren Campbell was the tournament director. 6 different sections were held with players from several different school districts in the area taking part. Two players scored 3-1, Adin Stratton of Napavine Elementary and Haarika Yajamanam of Olympic View Elementary…
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Success Through Chess Event
On March 14 at Round Table Pizza on SE Mill Plain in Vancouver, Washington, American Chess Institute held one of their events for kids. I took a few photos. CLICK HERE for the photos. I did not try to get any names of the kids this time. CLICK HERE for their website.