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NFC Championship Tornado Results
In an event held at the Seattle Chess Club on January 19, 2014, Roland Feng of Seattle was again a winner with a 3.5-.5 score. He drew with third place finisher Viktors Pupols of Kingston in round 2. Vikram Ramasany of Kirkland scored 3-1 to take 2nd place. Fred Kleist of Seattle directed the 11 player…
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Seattle City Championship Results
27 players in two sections took part in an event held at the Seattle Chess Club on Jan 10-12, 2014. Fred and Carol Kleist handled the TD tasks. NM Roland Feng of Seattle with a 4-1 score won the event’s top section. Brian McLaren of British Columbia was 2nd with 3.5-1.5. He defeated Roland in round 4.…
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Portland Chess Club Jan G/60 Results
Once again the top rated player in the event won. And once again it was Nick Raptis of Portland with a perfect 4-0 score in the Game in 60; d5 event at the Portland Chess Club. It was held January 25, 2014 with Neil Dale and Jonathan Fortune handling the tournament director tasks for the 30…
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Winter Chess Fest Scholastic Event Results
IM Georgi Orlov was the chief director for a large scholastic chess event held January 18, 2014 at Broadview Thompson Elementary School in Seattle. The K-1st Grade section had 55 players and two finished with 5-0 scores: Robert Michailov and George Hurley. 106 players in Grades 2-4 section ended with another two players with 5-0 scores:…
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Chess4Life Scholastic Chess Event Results
The Chess4Life Bellevue Center held a tournament on January 20, 2014 for kids. The 21 player open section was won by Tarik Kameric with 5-0. 18 players took part in the U800 rated section. The winner, Shakti Senthil also scored 5-0. The U500 rated section was a tie between David Balin and Bharadwa Duggaraju at 4.5-.5.…
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2014 Winter Carnival Results
They have posted on their website the Winter 2014 All Star List as of 31 Dec 2013. CLICK HERE to see the list. Jerry Ramey directed a scholastic chess tournament of 5 sections at South Eugene High School on Jan 18, 2014. Aaron Grabinsky the top rated player in the Elite Eight Section won that section…
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Top 12 Active Players in Portland Chess Club Events
Info from USCF website. Number of events that players played in 2013 that Portland Chess Club held. 1. Mike Janniro 23 2. Nick Rapits 21 3. Jerrold Richards 20 4. Brian Berger 19 5. Lennart Bjorksten 17 6. Mike Hasuikel 17 7. Jerry Sherrad 17 8. Andrew Trattner 17 9 Jason Cigan 16 10. Harry…
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Top 10 Players to take part in WCF events in 2013
Top Rated Players for Affiliate T5014247 WASHINGTON CHESS FEDERATION (Players With 1 or more Events by this Affiliate in Last Year are shown.) Rank USCF ID Name State Rating Date Published Events 1 12869121 FM COSTIN COZIANU WA 2478 2013-04-01 1 2 20058328 IM RAY KAUFMAN CA 2398 2014-01-01 2 3 12626859 FM SLAVA MIKHAILUK…
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Einstein Wise Scholastics Results
On Jan 20, 2014 36 scholastic players in two sections played in a chess event. Jean Lin scored 5-0 to top the K-3 13 player section. Same score by Ashley Lin won the 23 player Grades 4-6 section. The two girls are sisters. Site of the Martin Luther King Day event was Einstein Wise in…
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LIFE OF A KING movie review
Came across the first movie review for the movie LIFE OF A KING, which has a chess theme. Cuba Gooding Jr. is the star in the film. The January 2014 CHESS LIFE had an article about the movie. The movie review is from the Washington Post. Watch for the film coming to a movie house…
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