British Columbia Chess Scene

August 28:
BC Chess Game Database compiler Stephen Wright Stephen Wright's BC Chess Game Database has been updated.

May 23:
Jack Yoos won the 30th Paul Keres Memorial.

April 28:
Junior Chess BC players at 2005 Washington State Elementary Chess Championship: a short report and some photos (http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/news.html).

BC junior player rating list updated: http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/players.html

December 26:
Holy Trinity Active Holy Trinity Active (Dec.19, 2004)
Thanks to some incredible last round time scramble heroics against organizer and TD Luc Poitras, James Kerry came first with 4/5 points; Vas Sladek, James Chan and Hee Seid tied for second with 3.5. Top junior went to Louie Jiang.
Vas Sladek took some photos of the players in action.

August 30:
Marathon Chess Madness photos Added some photos from Henry Chiu's Marathon Chess Madness, held on August 28 and 29.

July 4:
GM Pia Cramling Vas Sladek took photos of the GM Simul held on July 4 at St. John's School in Vancouver.

June 4:
Arapovic Simul Chess Simul
IM Vitomir Arapovic demolished his opposition 9.5-0.5 in a June 3, 2004 chess simul organized by northshorechess.com and generously hosted by the Croatian Cultural Centre.

April 15:
Jack Yoos Jack Yoos won the 2004 BC Closed Championship. The games are available in PGN and Chessbase formats.
A photo gallery from the 2004 Championship is available.

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