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For thirteen years the MLK Chess Tournament at Stillwater Motessori has been attracting scholastic players and more recently adult competitors to Old Town for a day of mid-winter chess. This year's edition had fifty-six players in four sections: Open, K-12, K-8 and K-6 non-rated. Here's the richly illustrated tournament report with results, crosstables and selected games. |
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Thirty-three players turned out for the five-section John Bapst New Year's Tournament played at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor on January 8th, 2012. This year's tournament was held in honor of former John Bapst Chess Coach Bob Solinger who passed away last year after a long battle with cancer. |
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Todd Snyder overwhelmed all of his opponents, including former Maine champion Roger Morin, to score 4.0 points and win the First Houlton Open 2012, the first Maine Chess Association sponsored Maine Chess Player of the Year event of 2012. Morin took second with 3.0 points. The big story was, however, Colby College student Joe Fishman who gained 299 USCF rating points to finish with 2.5 points an a provisional USCF rating of 1781 in this his second rated tournament. |
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Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? On the contrary, in fact, the calendar indicates the time is nigh for The Best of ChesMaine.net--our annual year-end retrospective of all things chess in Maine for 2011. |
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Votes have been cast, ballots have been tallied and the results are in! Maine Chess Association members have chosen a slate of officers and policy board members for the 2012-2014 term. Congratulations and thanks to all those who put their hat into the ring to serve the Maine chess community and beyond. |
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The by now famous Best of ChessMaine.net end of the year review will be coming to a computer screen near you soon. While our legions of bean counters pore over reams of statistical data separating the wheat from the chaff, we encourage you to take a crack at this composed problem of retrograde analysis. If it's too easy, don't despair, we've got plenty more of the fiendishly maddening variety. |
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The spring scholastic chess season unofficially got underway with the first Ellsworth K-8 Chess Afternoon at the Ellsworth Middle School on Monday, December 12th, 2011. Over one hundred scholastic players from seven schools participated in this annual harbinger of the competitive scholastic chess season. |
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Seven players competed in the 11th Presque Isle Chess Tournament at the University of Maine, Presque Isle on December 17th, 2011. Roger Morin topped the four-player open section with 3.0 points in three games. In the reserve section, Arthur Ryzak scored two wins and two draws to take first place. Here's the express tournament report and a selected game. |
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In an article appearing in the December 8th edition of the online journal Village Soup Ethan Andrews tells the story of the Belfast Free Library Chess Club now back in business after a brief hiatus. We bring you the story in its entirety. |
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Ian Youth, a student at the Breakwater School in Portland, finished second in the elemantary section of the 8th Annual New England Scholastic Chess Championships held on December 10th-11th, 2011 in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. With only one loss in seven rounds Youth, the only Maine player at the event, scored 5.0 points. |
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