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Game in 90 tournaments continue in Aroostook County as part of the Presque Isle/Houlton Tournament Series. Players compete in up to four games over the course of two days in two different Maine cities. Roger Morin won the event with a perfect score of 4.0 points in four games. Tom Taylor and Lance Beloungie tied for second scoring 2.5 points apiece. |
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Tournament activity keeps the heat on at the Portland Chess Club. While snow piles up outside, USCF tournament games pile up at the regular Friday evening meetings of the Portland Chess Club. Having completed the PCC Fall Quads the week before Christmas, the PCC has just launched the PCC Winter Swiss. |
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It's fast paced. It's fun. It's maddening. It's blitz chess of course. At the Bangor Blitz Championship, held at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor on February 13th, fifteen players each played eighteen games at five minutes a side. Winners in the Open section were Steve Abrahams, Andrew Seavey and Dan DeLuca. Zach Hamilton, Josh Audibert and Haley DeLuca Lowell took first, second and third respectively in the merged U1000 section. |
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the ChessMaine.net Lending Library. We currently have over one hundred chess-related titles in our collection with more to be added. Patrons can borrow up to three titles for eight weeks. To borrow books, use the links on the Library page to add the titles you want to ChessMaine's PayPal shopping cart. You'll be charged a small fee to account for both shipping to you and return shipping to ChessMaine. When your books arrive, be sure to save the enclosed return envelope. When you're finished reading, just mail the books back. Please consider making a literary donation to the ChessMaine.net Lending Library--we welcome single titles or entire collections and will make these books available to the Maine chess community--thanks! |
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Two events took place in Aroostook County in late January: the 1st U1200 Houlton Open at The Art Studio on Court Street in Houlton on January 22nd and the 2nd Presque Isle/Houlton Open at Turner Memorial Library in Presque Isle on January 29th and The Art Studio in Houlton on January 30th. Andy Chan won the U1200 tournament with a perfect 4.0 points in four rounds and Roger Morin won the four-player PI/Houlton Open with 3.5 points. |
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