Welcome to the King County Chess League

This league serves the area east of Seattle, providing challenging Game/90 chess to students in local high schools. The area includes public and private schools in the districts of Bellevue, Mercer Island, Issaquah, Snoqualmie Valley, Lake Washington, North Shore and other nearby areas.

This web site gives you league events and schedules, contact information, and league documents. We hope this is an easy way to get material which is also emailed each season to coaches and schools.

You may also enjoy a long-term (very long term!) history of the league results. Kingco Chess has been operating continuously since 1968.

2012-2-13 Final Kingco Standings

Final 2011 - 2012 season standings are as follows:

	Final Standings		#Games	Matches Won
1	Interlake A	39.5	45	8.5
2	Mercer Island	33	45	7
3	Newport	28.5	43	5.5
4	Bellevue	28	45	6.5
5	Overlake	27	45	7
6	ICS	18.5	44	3
7	Issaquah	18.5	45	3.5
8	Interlake B	15	45	3
9	Interlake C	8	42	0
10	Bothell	6	45	1

As explained earlier, ICS ends up in 6th, winning the tie-breaker with Issaquah on the basis of their 4-1 win against them in Week 7. (And as Jay mentioned, Issaquah will still be at state as host team).

Question for all of you: The biggest underdog win I'm aware of from this season is that of Erik Lystad (BOT – rating 607) over Jack Sather (OVL – rating 1609) in week 7. I don't currently have an easy way to automatically check ratings differentials for all games, so please let me know of any other big underdog wins you're aware of so I can check them out.

Thanks, Alec.

2012-1-13 Current Kingco Standings

Current standings after week 6. As always, please double-check results in the latest schedule. Ratings information submitted, so you should see a tournament report online at www.ratingsnw.com by this time.

	Standings, as of 13-Jan		#Games
1	Interlake A	23	25
2	Mercer Island	22	30
3	Bellevue	18.5	30
4	Newport	17.5	28
5	Overlake	14.5	25
6	Issaquah	12.5	25
7	Interlake B	11	30
8	ICS	11	29
9	Interlake C	5	27
10	Bothell	2	25

Please download the Kingco Schedule after Round 6 spreadsheet for the latest schedule and complete scoring detail.

Also some of the contact information has been updated. If you see any errors, please let me know.

Thanks, Alec.

2008-2009 Kingco Chess Results

Feb 19^th, 2009 - Interlake A and Skyline A came within a whisker’s-breadth of becoming co-champions this season, but Interlake A emerged victorious in First Place by a mere 0.5 points! The season's details are all in the Kingco League Standings spreadsheet. Congratulations and compliments go to Interlake for their outstanding job this year.

2007-2008 Kingco Chess Results

Feb 9^th, 2008 - Kingco stormed the 2008 State Team Tournament! Skyline A finished 2^nd, Mercer Island 3^rd, Skyline B 7^th, Interlake 16^th, and a Skyline JV member took First Place in the JV division after a heart-stopping two rounds of three-way speed chess playoffs.