Last weekend Alexandra Botez (Clackamas) won the Kasparov Foundation’s All-Girls Open National Championship. She went undefeated, scoring four wins and two draws against girls from Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, and Missouri. In the process, she won well-deserved national recognition, a huge trophy, and a $105,000 scholarship to University of Texas at Dallas. With...
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Archive for April, 2011
Girls Open National Champion: Alexandra!
Seaside Results
Full OSCF State Championship results are rated and posted at NWSRS. Pictures can be found by clicking the “Photos” link in the menu on the left sidebar. Section Winners: HS Elite: Aaron Pikus (3.5/4) HS Advanced: Jonathan Yau (3.5/4) HS Intermediate: Tucker Price & Ben Larson (4/5) MS Elite: David Wen & Erik Skalnes...
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Seaside Results: Elite Sections
The 2011 OSCF State Chess Championships were the biggest yet. Total participation was 268, exceeding last year’s record 251 by a healthy margin. The high school division (38) grew by 58% over last year’s (24), and the middle school division (88) grew by 21% over last year’s (73), while turnout for the elementary school...
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Seaside Blitz
Eighty-seven players competed in the blitz tournament at Seaside. In each game they had to bang out all their moves in five minutes or less. The field was divided by rating into 20 four-player quads playing double round-robins and one seven-player group that played a single round robin. The top group featured four players...
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Seaside Bughouse
Sixty-eight bughouse teams with names like Cheeseburger Cats, Buzzing Monkeys, and One Smart Fellow He Felt Smart battled it out to see who would take home the unique and lovely bughouse trophies and who would have to settle for eating worms (gummy worms, that is). The 68 teams were divided into 17 quads for...
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The View Of Seaside From Coquille
Nancy Keller brought 18 players from Coquille — a total of 4186 kid-miles, edging out Lisa Still’s 3645 kid-miles (27 from from Corvallis). The Coquillies were also the most spirited during the awards ceremony with enthusiastic and appropriately loud support for their teammates. For all their efforts, Nancy and the Coquille squad received an...
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Thank-You!
This year’s OSCF State Championship was the biggest yet. In all, 270 kids registered, and an amazing 268 (or 99.3%) of those turned out to play on Saturday. The event went remarkably smoothly, thanks to the hundreds upon hundreds of hours of help from around 100 volunteers. Nearly 100% of the work — from...
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