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It's not every day you get an opportunity to talk with someone who learned how to play chess when Woodrow Wilson was president. At nintey-seven years young, Bernard "Doc" Mann still plays, teaches and enjoys the game. A gentleman and a scholar, Doc is one of Maine's great ambassadors of chess. After speaking with the man one gets the sense that if chess is important to him, it's worth learning.
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Selected games from the recently completed Maine State Championship are now available. The games, along with annotations provided by Fritz 9, can be replayed using our interactive PalMate game viewer. We hope you enjoy these gems and maybe learn a thing or two while you're at it.
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New meeting time and location for the Portland Chess Club.
Beginning Friday, June 2, the Osher Life-long Learning Institute (OLLI) Chess Club (unofficially known as the Portland Chess Club) will begin weekly meetings in Room 43 in the basement of Payson Smith Hall on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. The room is available for play from 6:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. when the building closes.
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The title of Maine State Champion is an elusive one. Twenty-eight players from all corners of the state came to the Southern Maine Community College Campus Center on May 20th and 21st to take a crack at it. After five rounds the reigning champion Joseph St. Pierre had 4.5 points. That was enough for clear first place in this annual tournament that has become Maine's Holy Grail of Chess.Continue reading "Joseph St. Pierre Repeats as State Champion" »
The Maine Closed Championship is just around the corner. This five-round swiss brings out Maine's top players to compete for the title of State Champion. Stay tuned to ChessMaine.net for results, photos and a full tournament report as soon as humanly possible after completion of the last game.Continue reading "2006 Maine Closed Championship" »
Seven thousand handshakes later, the 2006 National Elementary School Championship is over. The kids played their hearts out and there were many thrills and some disappointments. Here are the results from Maine's view of the world.Continue reading "National Elementary School Championship, Everyone's A Winner!" »
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I've seen it raining fire in the sky! Five hundred thirty-eight teams from forty-two states are in Denver, Colorado competing in the 2006 National Elementary School Championships. Among the nearly 2,000 players are nineteen from Maine. ChessMaine brings you this initial report from the Hyatt Devner Convention Center.
More reports to come.
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Chess Books: new, used, rare, it seems we can't get enough of them. If you've been looking for just the right book to help give your game a jumpstart, a vist to W. J. Lippincott Books on Central Street in Bangor is in order. With a huge number of chess titles, owner Bill Lippincott is creating a chess book lover's Shangri-la.
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