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March 31, 2007 is the last day to take advantage of the USCF's Adult Dues Sale! Until midnight central time on Saturday, USCF regular adult dues are available for just $39, but only if purchased online. Membership includes 12 issues per year of Chess Life and the right to earn a chess rating in the official national rating system. Now is a great time to renew.
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The Southwesterns are coming! The Southwestern Maine High School and Junior High School Championships that is. The format of this event, held at Chererus High School in Portland on Saturday, March 31, 2007, will be teams of five-person matches and a four-round Swiss in the Reserve section. Come out for the Southwesterns!
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On March 24, 2007 the University of Maine Memorial Union played host to 92 K-12 chess players vying for top individual honors in Elementary, Junior High and High School sections. While northern and central Maine schools had garnered most of the team honors this year at the team championships on March 10th, players from southern Maine took or shared many of the Individual awards. Here's the tournament report, chock-full with images and crosstables from each section.
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Former Maine Chess Champion and artist Roger Morin, recently played in an over-the-board tournament in Pembroke, Maine after being away from competitive chess for many years. ChessMaine.net took note of this and caught up with Roger to ask him what it's like to be back at it. In this interview, Roger recalls Maine chess in the '60s, '70s and '80s, speaks about some of his great chess contemporaries and comments on his chess-inspired art.
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The Maine State Scholastic Individual Championship will be held this Saturday, March 24, 2007 in the Memorial Union at the University of Maine, Orono. Those players who scored three points or more at last week's team championship are invited back to the individual competition with entry fee waived. This tournament, a four round Swiss with time control at Game in 60, will determine state individual champions in five divisions: Primary (K-3), Elementary (K-6), Junior High School (K-8), High School (K-12) and High School Under 1200.
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Matthew Fishbein is a name well known to our readers. The nine-year-old Cape Elizabeth native who was a member of the 2007 K-6 Championship team and is the current K-3 Maine State Individual Champion, has added another laurel to his chess resume. The Official USCF Rating Supplement for April, 2007 ranks Matthew the 68th highest rated nine-year-old in the nation with a rating of 1284--and with his performance recently at the team championships, that rating is going nowhere but up. Congratulations Matthew!
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There’Äôs a new movie out, 300, which is an account of the Spartan warriors who held off the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae. No less riveting were the examples of hard-fought, close battles and team comradery that took place over chess boards at the annual State Scholastic Team Chess Championships which also drew 300 spirited combatants. Held Saturday, March 10, 2007 at the University of Maine’Äôs Memorial Union, players from all ends of the State gathered to contest State titles in Elementary, Junior High and High School Divisions.
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March 11, 2007 marks the one year anniversary of ChessMaine.net. In our first year, we've posted 891 entries and have been visited over 27,000 times from readers as far afield as Bulgaria, Greece, Iceland and Israel. Many thanks to the Maine Chess Community for its support and votes of confidence. We look forward to another great year of illustrated tournament reports, interviews, news, games, events, players, features and more.
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Scholastic chess players from across the state descended on the University of Maine, Orono to compete in the Maine State Scholastic Team Championships on Saturday, March 10, 2007. Awards were given in numerous sections including: High School Championship, High School Reserve and Novice, Junior High School Championship and Novice, K-6 Championship and Novice and K-3 Championship. A gigantic illustrated report is on the way but in the meantime, here's the Flash Report.
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ChessMaine.net has recently undergone a massive image resolution restructuring project and the transformation is now complete. The practical upshot of this project is a dramatic increase in the speed at which all ChessMaine.net pages load, especially those pages with a large number of images. You can now expect page loading times to decrease by a factor of 10!
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Maine's largest chess event on the tournament calendar is coming up this weekend. The Maine Scholastic Team Championship held in The Memorial Union at the University of Maine, Orono on Saturday, March 10, 2007 will attract K-12 players from across the state to compete for Maine State titles. Last year's event drew 327 players making it the largest one-day tournament ever held in Maine. This year promises to be another blockbuster! See you over the board on Saturday, March 10th.
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In a dramatic finish that inspired applause from the onlookers, Lily Briggs, a 12th grade homeschooler from Lubec, Maine, defeated defending Girls Champion Margaret Bryan to become the 2007 Maine Girls Scholastic Chess Champion. Lily's perfect score of four wins without a loss or a draw, earned her the right to represent the State of Maine at the Susan Polgar National Invitational Chess Championship for Girls during the United States Chess Championship held later this year in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Here's the illustrated tournament report with crosstables and the championship game annotated by Fritz 9.
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The 2nd Annual Maine Scholastic Chess Championship for Girls will take place this Saturday, March 3, 2007 in the Bumps Room of the Memorial Union of the University of Maine, Orono. This tournament will determine the Girls State Champion and qualify the winner for an opportunity to represent the State of Maine at the Susan Polgar National Invitational Championship for Girls on July 29 - August 3, 2007 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This tournament is NOT cancelled because of snow. It will be held as scheduled: Registration 8:30 - 9:00 a.m., First Round starts at 9:15 a.m. If you will be delayed, or if you have registered and can't make it, please call TD Dan DeLuca at (207) 479-4474 or Assistant TD Andy Bryan at (207) 949-0641.
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Chess pieces don't normally talk back to their players.
Yet this was the case on Saturday at the Gray Public Library, when New Hampshire librarian and educator Michael Sullivan led a game of "living chess," with humans standing in for chess pieces on a room-sized board.
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