by Ed Addis On December 8th the Portland Area League members met for the 5th round. In the Upper Division first place Clackamas #1 got back on track and took care of Sherwood #1 by a score of 4 games to one. Second place Lincoln #1 ran into the emerging Horizon Christian team and went…
Portland Area HS League, Round 4
by Dan Dalthorp •
by Ed Addis The Portland Area League is composed of 11 member schools that field 16 teams into two divisions of eight teams each. In the first half of the season, each division plays a round robin of matches with five-player teams. Then, divisions are adjusted somewhat and the divisions play another round robin in…
London, Round 3
by Dan Dalthorp •
Wunderkind (wonder child) Magnus Carlsen goes down again — this time to world champion Anand. Carlsen just turned 20 a couple weeks ago. Just after his 19th birthday, he became the youngest player ever to be the number one rated player in the world (Jan 2010). The next world champion? Two months ago, it looked…
London, Round 2
by Dan Dalthorp •
Kramnik-Nakamura, 0-1 Nakamura is still young, but he has rocketed to the highest levels of the chess world. He’s now making a strong case that he belongs there. Yesterday he drew against world champion Anand. Today he beat former world champion and current world #4 Vladimir Kramnik — and was playing black. Kramnik rarely loses,…
London, Round 1
by Dan Dalthorp •
A great round of ferocious, fighting chess by some of the strongest players in the world… Anand-Nakamura, 1/2-1/2 Nakamura, the strongest player in the US and currently among the top ten in the world, had the dubious honor of playing black against World Champion Anand in the first round. He decided to play the Berlin…
London Chess Classic
by Dan Dalthorp •
One of the strongest chess tournaments of the year starts Wednesday, Dec 8 in London. It features many of the strongest players in the world, including: Vishwanathan Anand (from India, World champion and world’s highest-rated player), Magnus Carlsen (from Norway, second highest-rated player in the world), Vladimir Kramnik (from Russia, previous world champion, fourth highest-rated…
Eugene Fall Classic
by Dan Dalthorp •
For eleven straight years, Jerry Ramey has directed the Fall Classic scholastic chess tournament in Eugene. The name has changed over the years, but it is consistently a high quality event, year in and year out. This year 60 players from all over the state (and even one from Washington) participated. Playing in the elite…
Portland Chess Club, November G/60
by Dan Dalthorp •
The Portland Chess Club hosts a four-round G/60 tournament one Saturday per month. The tournaments are OSCF qualifiers, but usually about 3/4 of the participants are adults. Scary? Nah… Well, scary for the adults maybe. In a match-up between a 10 year old and an adult 100 points higher rated, I’d put my money on…
Portland Area League, Rounds 1-3
by Dan Dalthorp •
The powerful Portland area high school chess league has completed three rounds of play. In the upper division Gavin Megson of Clackamas High School and Nathan Ryan have both been a perfect 3/3 so far. Nathan (928 NWSRS) had to notch a 400 point upset in the third round to keep his streak in tact,…
Southern Oregon Chess League
by Dan Dalthorp •
November 20, 2010, despite threats of snow in the passes, the Southern Oregon Chess League held a tournament at the Coquille High School. Coquille Varsity and Coquille Junior Varsity chess teams once again showed their dominance in the region with Sutherlin and Oakland participating. Marshfield and Myrtle Creek were unable to participate. For the Coquille…
