Archive for August, 2011

Each year each state nominates one high school player to play in the Denker Tournament of High School Champions held in conjunction with the US Open. This year’s Oregon representative was Aaron Pikus (School of Science and Technology, Beaverton), winner of the high school elite section at the OSCF State Championship. The Denker is...
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Eighteen players came to Corvallis on a scorching hot day to play some cool chess at Zion Lutheran School. All earned an enamel dog print pin while battling it out for the “full dog” trophies awarded to the top three finishers in each section. In addition to chess, players engaged in some basketball, dodge...
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Discounted copies available. SwissSys is the premier tournament pairing software for US events. It is an essential tool for organizing tournament player data, making pairings, keeping track of scores, calculating tie-breaks, formatting standings and wall-charts, formatting final cross-tables for submitting results to USCF or NWSRS for rating. For Oregon TDs SwissSys is essential because:...
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Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the Portland Chess Club is one of the oldest living chess clubs in the US. Festivities at the Lloyd Center Hilton Doubletree Hotel August 12-14 included a three-day chess tournament, a 14-round blitz tournament, and a 10-board simul with Susan Polgar, former Women’s World Champion and first female...
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There is a brand new Corvallis Chess League. We meet once per week to play one  USCF-rated G/90 game. The league is open to all USCF members but because of the long time-controls, it is well-suited for more mature scholastic players and adults. There is no cost to join and no awards given out....
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