Archive for February, 2012

Online registration for the 7th Annual OSCF State Chess Championships is open. Check the list of players who have qualified and are invited to the event. We are expecting 300 players for the main event on Saturday, April 28 in Seaside, Oregon. Registering early will help us plan the event to make it the...
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Last weekend there were a record number of OSCF qualifier tournament on a single weekend (5). Two of the tournaments are the largest qualifiers of the year, OHSCTA high school team championships (184 players) and Whitford/Cooper Mtn (169 players), so it’s no surprise that a record number of players competed in qualifiers on a...
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The Oregon High School Chess Team Association (OHSCTA) held its 48th Annual state high school team championships. This year it was held far from Portland but still attracted 172 players, making it the biggest qualifier of the year! In the Varsity section, there was a four-way tie for first. By a razor-thin margin, it...
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by Nancy Keller There were mutterings in the hallway through the Oregon High School Chess Team State Championships. “Who is that little kid with the hat and wow is he good”, “Where is Coquille?”, “I hope we don’t have to play them!” No one wanted to play Coquille Junior Varsity team as they stomped...
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by coach Rustam Kocher, Chief TD The eighth annual Whitford-Cooper Mountain Scholastic Chess Championships on Saturday, February 25th was the largest conventional qualifier tournament in the state this year with 170 players participating in six sections. Player skills ranged from the Elite 10 USCF-rated section (average rating 1509) to the “Pawns” section with unrated...
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Oregon High School Chess Team Association championships is the premier team chess event of the year. This year’s version was held in Myrtle Creek–about four hours south of Portland. Despite being so far from the big population centers of the state, thirty chess teams and 149 players (mostly HS students) converged on South Umpqua...
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by Steven Cousineau Forty-one scholastic chess players took one day of a three day weekend to try five rounds of competitive chess in a new venue. The Tigard Grange building dates back to 1925 but this is the first time in as long as anybody can remember that there were this many young families...
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disease that affects a cluster of proteins that repair DNA. As a result, patients commonly contract cancer and often have congenital defects as well. Benjamin Morrison has been hosting an annual Chess for FA tournament in Corbett, Oregon to raise money for FA research. Benjamin...
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The Portland Area League met on February 8th to play the 6th round of their three Division Round Robin. Division A League-leading Clackamas won on the odd boards to down Westview by a score of 3 to 2. Lake Oswego kept Wilson in the back of the pack by winning by a score of...
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Check out some of the games, commentary, and final results…
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