With the departure of Edwin Dizon the Seattle Metro League is now being maintained by Lakeside.
Includes player rosters and standings. Sadly, it no longer has
Edwin's bowling league news.
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. The site is somewhat under construction.
Thanks to WCF officer Duane Polich, who is action as
webmaster.
David Merrill and David Sommers are helping to coordinate
elementary chess events in Eastern Washington, particularly
in the Tri-Cities area. Check out their website for more
information.
The strongest players in the area play at the Seattle
Chess Club. Individual games on Fridays and Tuesdays, Blitz
Chess on Wednesdays, occasional lessons on Thursdays, one
day tournaments on Saturdays and Sundays once a
month, and major 2-day weekend tourneys 6 times a year-a
full-service club!
Excellent site run by the K-12 Chess Association
of BC (works better with Internet Explorer than with Netscape).
These are the people who organize the BC side
of the Intermat Tournament. Check out what's going
on north of the border, and maybe pay a visit up there
for some great scholastic chess.
Pete Prochaska's great site from our neighbors
to the south. Those of you in the southern part of
our state, in particular, will want to find out what's
happening in the Oregon Chess Scene.
Georgi Orlov's summer chess camps have become a mainstay
of summer chess activity. Here's a chance to improve your
game and have a fun summer activity all rolled in one.
At 64.com you can find USCF ratings in a
searchable database. Includes ratings history
for players going back for years. Look in the
bottom right corner for the tiny link to USCF
Ratings.
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!
Owner David Weinstock is a craftsman too. This
chess vendor sells typical stuff also but his
specialty is high-quality sets and rare books.
Multi-Use Sites
These next few sites are
both newsy and commercial in nature. All are superb in
some ways: Note that Inside Chess and Chessplayer are
locally generated, too.
Some superb teaching articles are found on Georgi Orlov's
website. Georgi spins excellent writing, current chess events,
strong opinions, and a good archive. Has an good variety of
items for sale too. Sometimes loads a tad slowly. Along with
his wife Elena, a former Women's world Championship runner-up,
runs a popular chess camp in the summer.
The very latest news from the chess world-want to find out
round-by round coverage of a tournament? This is the page. I
bit hard to find your way at first but indispensible. Has
commercial links too, but this site is out of England, so
shipping time may be an issue.
Excellent writing on chess. Has articles that entertain,
inform, and amuse. May be a problem for older browsers.
Seattleite Mike Franett is one of my favorite columnists.
Bruce Pandolfini has an excellent Q & A column for beginners.
Has numerous GM contributors. Even has a arbiter's section for
Ollie, Kirk, Paul & Jay! (one example from there: what do you
do when a player stinks at the board? Check out their
archive for the answer to that!)
This multi-purpose site has a lot of good information for
the chess player. It focuses on lessons and training, but also
has tournament information and an excellent link section.
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.
Site run by the USCF. You must be a USCF member to play here.
Not as many players as the Internet Chess Club, which is worldwide,
but certainly a high quality site that is free for USCF members.
Another playing site. Site has poor implementation of rules. For
example, no draws automatically awarded if game reaches K vs. K and will
give the player a loss if their flag falls in such a position. I'm not sure the chess
supports Macintosh computers. Has other games besides chess.
An online database of 2 million games can let you know where
you first strayed off the path of the greats. Or, you can look
through games of the Grandmasters. A nifty resource. Requires at
least Netscape 4. IE probably ok too if current enough. Thanks
to Nat Koons for the tip.
