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Foreign 1 year $ 60.00 Page 2 October 2020 Northwest Chess From The Editor’s Desk This is my 95th consecutive monthly issue as editor. rthwes I usually wear multiple hats in each issue, being editor, No t writer, and even photographer. But this time I wore just the C editor’s hat, because I had so much material submitted from h e incredible sources. (Note for accuracy the exception to what I s just said, I did submit a photo I took in 2011 of Susan Kantor s on page 17.) For the last couple months, I’ve wanted to put out a 48-page issue, but it’s not as easy as that. Finally, this month there was no way I could do only 32 pages and still put in all that I wanted to put in—in fact, Ralph Dubisch seriously joked with me yesterday (after this issue was 98% finished) that I could do a 64-page issue, and while he was kidding, he was also not Table of Contents kidding! I didn’t write any Idaho articles in this issue. I could have. Queen And Pawn Death After all, Idaho just started holding online tournaments too (WCF Philip Peterson .............................................Front Cover has been doing them for some time now), and at the time of this issue, Idaho has run four online tournaments. Likelihood is that I From The Editor’s Desk will catch up (or at least start) these unwritten Idaho articles next Jeffrey Roland .................................................................3 issue. And while the pandemic had for a time stopped over-the- CJA Awards (NWC wins best print magazine, and board activity in the Northwest, we still got contributions from honorable mention for best online magazine) .............4 a couple Oregon players, all three games appearing in “Readers’ Still More Games From The Emerald City Open Showcase” on page 20-21. Various Players ...............................................................6 I should probably point out and recognize the incredible National Tournament Of State Senior Champions contributions from GM Aleksandr Lenderman who submitted Mary Kuhner ................................................................14 and annotated so many games they are hard to count, and after he did that, he even annotated some additional games played by Washington Game/60 (Half-Page Ad) his students in the events. Also, the incredible photography of online via Chess.com Oct 3 .........................................16 former Northwest Chess editor Philip Peterson, whose photos are Susan Kantor (1955-2020) so stunning that the idea of putting a caption on them proves Jeffrey Roland ...............................................................17 challenging! And to the best of my knowledge, I have caught up all contributions by all players who submitted annotated games Humor In Chess (Sequel) through the events covered. This issue is jam-packed with good Karen Schmidt ..............................................................18 stuff! Readers’ Showcase Various Players .............................................................20 Northwest Chess won the Chess Journalist of America award for Best Magazine/Newsletter (Print) for the seventh year in a row, Seattle Seafair Open and this year we also entered in the Best Magazine/Newsletter Derek Zhang .................................................................22 (Online) for the first time ever, and were recognized with an Washington Blitz Chess Championship (Half-Page Ad) honorable mention. That doesn’t mean we were second-place, online via Chess.com Oct 4 .........................................24 that means a significant number of voters considered us BEST, so we’re already recognized as a great online magazine, but there’s Vancouver Open room for improvement. We also won another honorable mention Rekha Sagar .................................................................. 34 award for “The Magic Year of 1971,” John Donaldson for Best USPS Statement Of Ownership ......................................41 Historic Article which was in the June 2020 issue (that was out 15th SPF National Open for Boys & Girls (Full-Page Ad) the end of May, so it qualified.) online via Chess.com Oct 10-11 ...................................42 It has long been my opinion that we can be the best print Seattle Classic Scholastic magazine and the best online magazine too at the same time Jacob Mayer ...................................................................43 without either one being negatively impacted—the best of both worlds! So we are going to be improving our online presence. We Washington Challenger’s Cup (Half-Page Ad) plan to try to figure out a better way to present the games online, online via Chess.com Oct 24-25 ................................. 44 but for now, look at page two (upper left there is a link) for a Washington Class Championships (Full-Page Ad) link to the online games file (note this was also a link to that; see online via Chess.com Nov 27-29 ..................................45 we’re learning!) Northwest Chess Grand Prix Anyway, I hope you enjoy this issue. It has been truly a Murlin Varner ..............................................................46 joy to produce. Keep contributing material, never stop, it is by Lenderman’s Penultimate players submitting material that we have things to put into these Philip Peterson ..............................................Back Cover issues. Keep subscribing too! 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