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A dozen players took part in a four round g/15 event June 26th. After taking a first round bye, Joe Ong won his final three games to top the field with a 3.5 score. Michael Cambareri and Ken Erickson scored 3.0 to finish second. Kevin Korsmo and Vibi Varghese finished 2.5 to win the under Read more

The club’s annual meeting on June 5 saw a shuffling of officers for the next year. Ben Shedlock takes over as president, while Michael Cambareri serves as vice president and Cam Leslie is now the club’s secretary. Craig Moore replaces Kevin Korsmo as treasurer. Read more

Michael Cambareri scored a perfect 5.0 to win the club’s Spring Champioonship. Second place was shared by five players with 3.5 scores. The tournament kicked off Thursday, April 24 with two dozen contenders and ran through through May 22. This 24-player field was well distributed, with four Expert/A-Class players, eight B-Class players, 9 C-/D-Class players, Read more

Spokane Chess Club is excited to announce its first collaboration with Blitz & Blunders! For event details, see the Blitz & Blunders website here: https://www.blitzandblunders.org/events/jntthhc4lusu31md8ns10iclogmf2m Blitz & Blunders is a great recent addition to the chess scene in Spokane. Featuring casual events in social environments like coffee shops, breweries, and pizzerias, they are offering Spokanites Read more

The 2025 Taxing Quads are in the books, with upsets putting newer or infrequent players in the top half of the cross tables and toppling pre-event favorites. Twenty-two players entered the 2025 edition of this ever-popular event, one of our three annual quad events (with the Ajeeb Quads coming in August, followed by the Turkey 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