Congratulations to Austin Liu of Sammamish, Washington, who recently became Washington State's newest National Master! Austin achieved a US Chess rating of 2202 as a result of scoring 3.5/5 points at the recent Washington Challenge...
Do you want to meet former Women's World Chess Champion GM Susan Polgar in person? Then register now for the 19th Annual Susan Polgar Foundation National Open for Girls & Boys, which is just a month away! Prizes include over $100,000 in schola...
Ted Wang, a fourth grader from St. Thomas School in Medina, became Washington State’s youngest ever master on June 15, 2024. Ted achieved the title at the age of ten years, six months, and 26 days, breaking the previous record held by IM Ant...
Hi All Apologies for the delay. Here is the recap of the Veterans Day Open Rapid tournament held on November 11th. The tournament was a tremendous success! We had exactly 100 players signed up. In fact, we had to turn away a few players due to s...
The Inaugural Veteran's Day tournament (November 11th) is coming up. For the first time as far as I know, a chess tournament will be held in an hospital! Yep you heard it right. The tournament will be at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Bu...
Hello Chess Friends! Did you know Seattle was awarded the Best Chess City 2023 by the US Chess Federation at the US Open in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Seattle, Washington has experienced tremendous growth in chess interest in recent years. From the...
A new chess club based in South Seattle. They run low-cost and free events in the Seattle to Tacoma corridor, many of which are US Chess Federation (USCF) rated. Currently they're running events at the Des Moines Gospel Chapel and the Detective...
Seattle Spring Open Tournament When: Mar 25 - 26 2023 Venue: Orlov Chess Academy 7212 Woodlawn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115 Format: 5-Round Swiss with Time Control of 100 Min + 15 Sec Increments. The tournament is USCF Rated. Prize fund is...
Grandmaster Lecture and Blitz Who: GM Grigoriy Oparin & GM Elshan Moradi When: Thursday, February 23, 2023 Where: Microsoft Building 99, 14820 NE 36th St, Redmond, WA 98052 Format: 9 rounds of USCF rated Blitz with Time Control: 3 min +...
Hi chess friends! The 2023 Washington State Championship is coming up in February. The tournament is spread out into two weekends. February 11-12 & February 18-20. With a total of nine rounds, this tournament is sure to test not only your che...
Hi Everyone, Today 1/10 at 5:30pm Pacific we play Pennsylvania in the U2200 division Playoffs! As a reminder it is single elimination, but I have great confidence in the strong lineup we have put together. Kyle Haining (2288) Derek Zhang (2274...
A local Seattle base chess club, Chess Club LLC, (Est 2018) recently got coverage on GeekWire. Checkout the article: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/chess-club-is-making-all-the-right-moves-in-seattle-attracting-players-to-lively-venues-across-th...
This past weekend, November 25th - 27th, Washington Chess Federation hosted the 2022 WA Class Championship at the Redmond Marriott. Over 150 chess players participated throughout North America including parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah an...
Hello Chess Players, The 2022 Washington Winter Chess Classic is coming up on December 17th - 18th, 2022. Their will be two location for this event, Orlov Chess Academy (Seattle) for the Open section and Orlov Chess Academy (Redmond) for the Res...
Thank you for participating in the 2022 Challenger's Cup Scholastic chess tournament, which was held last Saturday, November 12, at Chinook Middle School in Bellevue. A total of 190 talented scholastic chess players in grades K-12 participated fr...
I wrote my report in my chess.com Blog:https://www.chess.com/blog/JAdept/chess-club-seattle-beta-tournament-great-success
From October 22-23, the Washington Chess Federation partnered with Susan Polgar Foundation to organize the 2022 Susan Polgar Foundation National Open for Girls & Boys at the Marriott Hotel in Bellevue, WA. The event was a great success with o...
Team Washington is back at the States Cup for Season 3! Starting Tuesday Nov 1st at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern, and continuing on a weekly basis on Tuesdays! USCF Expert Tim Moroney will do live commentary on his Twich channel ( https://www.twitc...
Congratulations to Aryan Deshpande of Sammamish, Washington, who recently became Washington State’s newest National Master! Aryan achieved a US Chess rating of 2202 as a result of winning two games at the recent PNWCC Friday night tournament o...
