Chess Ratings NorthWest

HS State Individual Championship Jan 25-26

barry — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:23:06 +0000

Happy Holidays! For friends and relatives of high school chess players, this is a good time to think of ways you can help support your favorite chess player. Maybe there are some good books, some software for chess, an upgraded clock or other hardware suitable for Christmas!

Remember, the Washington High School State Individual Championship is coming soon on January 25-26. It will be held at Lakeside School in Seattle. Keep your eye on www.whsca.org for upcoming announcements and further details.

Mini-Teams Championship Saturday Nov 17

barry — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:39:51 +0000

The Mini-Teams tournament is coming this weekend to Interlake High School. Please put a team together, or encourage individuals to register and we’ll put them on a team! Great experience for newcomers before they head into the new league season.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Glad to help.
Best, Dave Ellinger, WHSCA

PS: State Individual: Jan 25-26
State Team: Feb 8-9

2012 Elementary State Concludes

rick — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:43:01 +0000

Congratulations to all those participating at WA Elementary State this year! Over 850 players braved the mountains and crossed the desert to “Duel in the Desert”.

Several Parents have asked where they can provide feedback to the folks running the event. You can send your comments to the WSEEC Policy Board (policy@wsecc.org) that oversees the event as well as this year’s organizer (weccboard@chesschampions.org).

2012 WA State Team Championship

barry — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:30:08 +0000

The 2012 State Team Championships were held on February 24-25. It was a rainy weekend at Issaquah High School, but their freshly remodeled school provided a wonderful and comfortable facility for the event.

We have a huge photo album and slide show for your enjoyment here, more than 340 pictures from photographers Ed McPherson and Barry Hansen. Or click here to download all photos to your local hard drive, a large Zip file (125 MB) containing 340+ high-resolution pictures.

Our top teams of Washington State:

Lakeside A (22 points)
Interlake (18.5 pt)
Newport (16.5 pt)
Garfield (16.5 pt)
Mercer Island (14 pt)

The top five Junior Varsity players:

Andrew Tat (Lakeside)
Kunal Roy (Interlake)
Richard Xu (Bellevue)
Zealous Zhu (Garfield)
Cameron Cameron (Interlake)

Many thanks to our hard-working WHSCA volunteers for a smooth-running event!

2012 WA State Individual Championship

barry — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:28:25 +0000

The 2012 State Individual Championships were held on January 27-28 at Ferndale High School up in the far northwest corner of Washington State.

Congratulations to our winners:

State champion Michael Omori from Lakeside School, scoring of 4.5 out of 5.0.
Premier section winner Karen Marcjan
Reserve section winner David Jorgensen

You can view and download photos here and get your new ratings from the State Championship Results here.

Many thanks to our hard-working WHSCA volunteers for a smooth-running event!

2012 Middle School Championships

rick — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:01 +0000

The Middle School Individual Championships will be held on March 3, 2012 in Lynnwood WA. All players grade 5-9 are eligible to play. Details can be found at www.middleschoolchess.com. This is also the event that will select the WCF Representative to the “Barber” Tournament held this year at the USOPEN in Vancouver, WA. For more information, email rick.jorgensen@gmail.com.

This year’s TEAM Match will be held in Lynnwood WA in May (after Elementary Nationals) – specific Date – TBD. If you would like to form a team for your school, contact rick.jorgensen@gmail.com.

Mini-Teams Results

barry — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:57:01 +0000

The 2011 Mini-Teams Tournament was held on Nov 19th on a crisp Fall day at Interlake High School in Bellevue. Congratulations to the winning team of Michael Wang, Abinav Viswanathan and Andrew Porisch!

You can view and download photos here and get your new ratings from the Mini-Teams results here.

Many thanks to our hard-working WHSCA volunteers for a fine event!

Streamlined Navigation

barry — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:49:18 +0000

Good news, web traffic shows that practically everyone has updated their bookmarks to go directly to ratings and reports! So I’ve expired the last few placeholder pages on whsca.org. I replaced them with automatic redirection to the corresponding new page here on Ratings NW.

In case you’re interested in the webmaster’s perspective, here are statistics from my tracking tools and a gratuitous green chess image in honor of St Patrick’s Day:

RatingsNW.com gets 400 – 600 visits per day, averaging 15,000 visits per month. This is a lot of traffic by any standard.
Two-thirds of our visitors look at tournament reports
One-third of our visitors look-up individual ratings
Web browsers used are: IE 48%, Firefox 21%, Safari 17%, Chrome 13%
Operating systems are: Windows 76%, Mac 15%, iPhone 2.3%, Android 1.6%, iPad 1.5%, Linux 1.4%
13 of our visitors like to capitalize just part of the domain name: www.ratingsNW.com
Washington visitors outnumbered Oregon visitors by 8,800 visits to 4,700
8 – 10pm is our busiest time of the day, but one-third of our visits occur in working hours from 9am to 2pm (it’s okay, I won’t tell on you)
Nobody has made any comments (yet!) under our headings for Elementary, Middle School or High School topics. Go ahead, this should be a good place to ask/share your school chess ideas.

Mobile users are up to almost 5% of our visits. Cool! Let me know how it’s working on your mobile device.

Webmaster Barry

Time to Update Your Bookmarks

barry — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:09:57 +0000

Happy New Year!
If you haven’t already, it’s time to update your bookmarks. I’ve been watching you (almost as closely as Santa Claus!) and noticed many of you are still finding your ratings by clicking through from WHSCA.org. This isn’t naughty but you will get your ratings more easily if you create bookmarks to:

Our Home page at www.ratingsnw.com, or
NWSRS Ratings at chess.ratingsnw.com/ratings.html, or
Tournament reports at chess.ratingsnw.com/tournreports.html.

Next week I will expire some of the almost-empty WHSCA pages that are no longer needed and replace them with redirection to Ratings NW.

Remember: WHSCA.org remains focused on Washington state high school events, while RatingsNW.com brings you the NWSRS database.

Webmaster Barry

USCF Ratings and Adjustments

barry — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:24:09 +0000

A note about USCF ratings and adjustments: We will continue Ollie’s practice of updating NWSRS ratings to match USCF ratings if:

the USCF rating is established (i.e.; no rating adjustment is made based on USCF provisional ratings), and
the USCF rating is higher than the NWSRS rating.

All ratings were adjusted following this policy on March 26, 2010.

For more than you ever wanted to know about our rating system, see: