Author: kmkorsmo

It’s chess tournament season in Spokane! Registration is open for our two major spring events, the Inland Empire Open (5/17-18) and the Spring Championships (4/24-5/22). The flyer for the IEO is available for download below. The event will be a 5-round G/90;d5 Swiss system tournament held the weekend of 5/17. Registration for the IEO is… Read more

The Spokane Chess Club’s annual Taxing quads got off to a strong start on 4/17, with 22 entering. Four quads and a mini-Swiss comprising the bottom 6 players will continue roun 2 play on 4/10. The final third round will be played on 4/17. Read more

join us for a 5 round Swiss in game 90. Registration is open. Read more

The Spokane Chess Club has scheduled its weekend schedules. Inland Empire Open: 5/17-18 Eastern Washington Open: 9/27-28 Read more

With our annual Taxing Quads just around the corner, players will have a chance to warm up with a variety of escalating time controls to prepare for the 3-week game 90 event in April (4/3-4/10-4/17). On 3/6, Club will feature a 1-week G/15 tournament (4-5 rounds depending on entries). On 3/13-3/20 Club will feature a… Read more

February 21-28 saw the Club experiment with a new two-round class-based championship format.. The first round put players in class pairings, and the second round advanced the top half of each group to a winner’s bracket. The first round featured a mini-swiss with some of the club’s A &.B players, with the exception of Asa… Read more

Linus Wannamaker, a ninth grader, won the second Inland Classic with a score of 4.5. He also garnered the largest upset prize by defeating IM John Donaldson in round 3. Linus, Idaho’s representative to the Denker tournament of high school champions, was seeded 11th in the event!. Way to go!! Second place (4.0) was shared… Read more

Terrible news arrived the other night that Ted Baker had unexpectely passed away on Friday, February 7 at age 74. Ted showed up at club in November 2004, played in his first tournament, and then immediately became one of our indispensable members. He served as club Secretary for many years and was a TD or… Read more

Thirty years after his last Winter Championship title in 1995 (but also having won the past two Fall Championships), Dave Rowles is again King of the cold weather chess season. Dave dispatched Ben Legard, who already had two Expert scalps this event, early in the final round to score 4.5 and finish a half game… Read more

Pullman High School won the first Eastern Washington Championship tournament played at Cheney High School on January 25. 30 students took part in the high school section, which was won by Chewelah senior Ben Patterson. Cheney High finished second and qualified for the state team championship along with Pullman. Third place went to Odessa High… Read more