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Dr. Paul A. Wlodkowski, Associate Professor of Engineering at Maine Maritime Academy, will be giving a series of lectures at the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy (AMSMA) in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of a faculty exchange with Maine Maritime Academy. On a recent trip to St. Petersburg, Dr. Wlodkowski visited the Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin Chess Club and returned with these images and impressions. |
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We continue to scour the internet to bring you all things chess in Maine. Recently, two-time and current Maine State Co-Champion and Bowdoin junior Jason Spector was featured in the Bowdoin College Orient--the oldest continuously published college weekly in the U.S. Here's Orient staff writer Mary Helen Miller's profile of Mr. Spector. |
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With the seventh and final round of the National Senior High School Championships completed, the John Bapst Chess Team will return to Maine with heads held high. The team earned a total score of 29 out of a possible 56 points--our congratulations to the players and their coaches for this outstanding accomplishment. Here is our final report including results, selected games and of course, images from Atlanta.
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After two days and five rounds of extremely tough, national-level chess, the John Bapst team is holding their own against very talented competition. Zach Smith leads his team with 4.0 points; Fritz Eyerer, Aaron Spencer, Kurt Eyerer and Omar Khan have 3.0 points; Maggie Bryan, Anna Bryan and Daniel Honeycutt have 2.0 points. Here's the latest from Day 2 including links to results and selected games.
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Seven players from John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine made the trek to Atlanta, Georgia to participate in the National Senior High School Championships taking place at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta from April 18 - 20, 2008. This seven-round G/120 tournament played in five sections, attracts the top high school players from across the country to compete for national titles. With two rounds down, Kurt Eyerer leads his teammates with 2.0 points. All other Bapst players have thus far scored 1 and 1.
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Steven Dillon and Jason Spector both had 4.0 points going into the last round of the 2008 Maine Chess Championship played at the University of Maine, Orono on April 12 - 13, 2008. Agreeing to a quick draw, they clinched the championship with only Roger Morin within reach. Morin, himself the 1980 Maine Champion, could not defeat Ruben Babayan in the last round and had to settle for equal sixth place. |
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We bring you a number of video impressions from the scholastic state championships played at the University of Maine, Orono in March. To access these videos directly you may also click on the Videos link at the top of the left-hand margin on any ChessMaine.net page.
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With Georgia on their mind and a scene from White Christmas outside the window, the John Bapst chess team joined by tournament stalwart Paul Ciarrocchi and fledgling player Dana Wilson played a USCF-rated octet Friday evening April 4, 2008 in the FFA room of the Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus in Orono.
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ChessMaine.net has been selected as Site of the Day for April 11, 2008 by the popular Maine website, aroundmaine.com. We extend our sincere thanks to the staff at aroundmaine.com for recognizing ChessMaine.net and to Andy Bryan for nominating the site for consideration. |
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WLBZ Channel 2 in Bangor recently featured the John Bapst Chess Team (this year's high school co-champions with Bangor High School) in a news report profiling the team and their preparation for the High School National Championship that will take place from April 18 - 20, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out the story and accompanying video. |
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The Maine State Championship will take place this weekend, April 12 - 13, 2008 at the University of Maine, Orono. This five-round Swiss tournament is open to Maine residents, students and military personnel stationed in Maine. Time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by sudden death in 60 minutes. The first place finisher will be awarded the Maine State Champion title, $200 and the Harlow B. Daly trophy. Winners in classes A-D as well as U1200 will be awarded $100. Hope to see you this weekend at Maine's premier tournament. |
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Grandmaster Susan Polgar has created a chess curriculum to assist in the teaching and learning of chess to beginner and intermediate players. Thanks to GM Polgar we can make this very useful tool available to you.
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Two central Maine scholastic chess players were highlighted in an article that appeared in the Morning Sentinel newspaper on March 27, 2008. Langdon Holly of Waterville and George Spahn of Palermo, both of whom participated in the recent Maine Scholastic Individual Championship, are featured in this interesting read. |
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The Maine state scholastic tournaments have concluded and we now have an opportunity to support one of the winning teams in their bid to attend the National Senior High School Championship to be held April 18-20, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. We hope you can attend the John Bapst High School Fundraising Tournament in Orono this Friday night. If you can't attend, please consider making a donation to the team. |
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