WHSCA Links

League Links

Northwest Scholastic Chess League: News from the northernmost high school chess league, in Whatcom County.
Kingco Chess League: Covers all happenings east of Seattle to the mountains, and north to south from Bothell to Renton.

How to Find Chess Tournaments

Northwest Chess Magazine Scholastic Chess Calendar: List of scholastic chess tournaments K-12, curated by Northwest Chess Magazine.
WHSCA and OSCF Online Calendar: Both Oregon and Washington scholastic chess directors post their tournaments here.
ChessReg: A site employed by many chess organizers statewide, allowing players to provide information and registration for chess tournaments.
WCF Online Registration System: Used by the WCF and other organizers to post tournament flyers and online registration.
Inland Chess Academy: Details on scholastic chess tournaments in Spokane and Eastern Washington.
Washington Elementary Chess Champions: Lists K-12 scholastic tournaments in the Kennewick - Pasco - Richland Tri-Cities area.
WCF Upcoming Chess Tournaments Emails: Get on the emailing list! Weekly you'll get a massive list of upcoming chess club meetings and tournaments happening all around the Pacific Northwest, both scholastic and all-ages, with handy links. To sign up, click the link above, then at bottom of the form select "I'm interested in: Signing Up for Updates and Events".

Regional Links

Orlov Chess Academy: The Academy runs classes, camps, tournaments, clubs and quads for students K-12. We integrate lessons on openings, tactics, end games, strategy, tournament skills and sportsmanship. We are located in Redmond and Green Lake, and run after-school clubs and camps in many more places.
Chess4Life: With locations in Bellevue, Bothell, Issaquah and Redmond, Chess4Life offers after school chess programs, evening and weekend tournaments for youth, chess camps, seminars, tutoring, and an online chess school.
Seattle Chess Club: The Seattle Chess Club offers news, events and photos of regional interest. Join the club to save money on entry fees for all SCC events.
Northwest Chess: News from the Northwest chess scene. The most relevant part of this site to the scholastic player is located under "calendar" on the top left part of the page. This section has tournament announcements for most important tournaments in Washington and Oregon. Northwest Chess Magazine is the publication of the Washington Chess Federation & The Oregon Chess Federation. Thanks to WCF officer Duane Polich, who is acting as webmaster.
Eastern Washington Chess Organization: The Eastern Washington Chess Organization helps coordinate elementary chess events in Eastern Washington, particularly in the Tri-Cities area. Visit their website ChessChampions.org for more information.
Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation: Promoting high quality chess events for scholastic and junior players. throughout Oregon.
Portland Chess Club: 100 years of Northwest chess: Established in 1911, for the last century the Portland Chess Club has provided a place for chess players to congregate while hosting world champions and national tournaments.

Merchandise

Chesshouse.com: Raphael Neff's superb site. Secure server for safe credit-card payment. Do you like the books and equipment that the Neff family sell at our tourneys? They have a good website with the same goodies! Save them a drive an buy some of their stuff!
Chessmate: Owner David Weinstock is a craftsman too. This chess vendor sells typical stuff also but his specialty is high-quality sets and rare books.

National Links

United States Chess Federation: The official US Chess Site. A big site with top 50 scholastic lists, news, and many many features. Also has a fully-stocked chess store.

Playing Sites

Chess.com: Currently the most popular chessplaying site going, with over one million chess games played daily. They also operate chesskid.com a safe website for elementary chessplayers.
lichess.org: The best free chess playing site, and almost as popular as chess.com . Clean interface, no registration required, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends, or random opponents. Great free "Learn Chess Basics" and "Practice" sections to improve your game.
The Internet Chess Club: My personal favorite playing site. A pay site ($24.50 per year for students) with 24 hour games in a friendly environment. Play chess, siamese (bughouse), giveaway, and other fun chess variants too. Consistent and reliable ratings. Parents: this site has filters for rude behavior.

Miscellaneous

Scholastic Chess Teachers Lounge: "How do I start and run a high school (or middle school) chess club? What are others actually doing in their chess clubs, really?" Input from a few hundred teachers, students, club advisors and chess coaches in the forums, along with resource suggestions.
Chessable: A chess learning tool with both free and paid content. Lessons sync between your smartphone and PC, so you can progress on both platforms. Originally designed to help strong players learn openings, for scholastic chess some of their free offerings are appropriate and very helpful, i.e. the course Typical Tactical Tricks .
Games to Play in the Car: A Guide to Chess: You can pass the time in the backseat of the car during a road trip with chess.
myRating: Type in your name, find your NWSRS rating, then click on it. A cool graph appears, charting your rating history, progress and comparisons within your group.
iChessU: Learn chess online from an experienced chess tutor. iChessU offers online chess lessons for players of all levels, from their experienced and diverse team of chess coaches.