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2006 was a record-setting year for chess in Maine. There were a total of thirty-one separate USCF-rated tournaments with sixty-eight separate sections serving 939 players. This surpassed 2004 as the previous record-holding year in which there were twenty-six tournaments with fifty-seven sections and 807 players. In this report we examine chess in Maine in 2006--by the numbers.
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Get ready, get set, play chess! The 2007 Maine Scholastic Chess Championships will take place in March at the University of Maine in Orono. The first event will be the Maine Scholastic Chess Championship for Girls on March 3, 2007 followed by the Team Events on March 10, 2007 and finally the Individual Events on March 24, 2007.
Here are all the details including registration forms.
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Martin Luther King Jr. weekend has always been a popular one for chess and this year is no exception. With four separate events to choose from, three at Southern Maine Technical College in South Portland and one at the Stillwater Montessori School in Old Town, you are sure to find one right for you. Celebrate the holiday by coming out to one (or more!) of these first tournaments of the new year.
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The Maine Association of Chess Coaches will have its Organizing Committee meeting at the Governor's Restaurant in Bangor on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. The Committee's primary focus will be on preparation for this year's state scholastic championship tournaments at the University of Maine in Orono this spring. Here is the draft agenda for the meeting and an invitation to all interested chess coaches to participate.
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Players made fireworks of their own at the John Bapst Memorial High School New Year's Tournament in Bangor as thirty-three of them faced off in four rounds of fighting chess. When the dust had settled, it was Ghezai Menelik topping the Open section with four points, Gabe Borland, J. Paul Ciarrocchi and Henry Chai all tieing for first with three points in the U1400 section and Patrick Hall with a perfect four for four in the U1000 section. We bring you the illustrated tournament report with crosstables.
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Get the New Year off to a great start by playing in the John Bapst New Year's Chess Tournament on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. The tournament will feature four rounds at G/45 in three sections (Open, U1400 and U1000). Trophies will be awarded to the top K-3, K-5 and K-8 players in the U1000 section as well as to the top three players overall in both the U1400 and U1000 sections. Players in the Open section will be competing for cash prizes.
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"Use all your pieces, castle, take your time and good luck!" Those were a coach's last words of encouragement to his student at the Brooklyn Chess Tournament held at Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday, December 16, 2006. The tournament is part of a series of weekly scholastic tournaments hosted by Chess-in-the-Schools, a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to stimulating and enhancing learning skills by teaching chess to kindergarten through eighth grade children in New York's inner-city public schools, in after-school programs, tournament competitions, and College Bound programs for high school students. We visited with some of the organization's outstanding staff and students and brought back to Maine a host of fresh ideas and plans for collaboration.
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A small but significant change in one of the United States Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess will take effect on January 1, 2007. The rule, 15A. Manner of keeping score, will be altered slightly to require the player to first make their move on the board and only then record it on the scoresheet. As the rule currently stands, the player can record the move first then execute the move on the board. In fact, many chess coaches and trainers council their students to do just that--record the move, look at the board with fresh eyes and then make the move.
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain by David Shenk is an intriguing romp through the chronicles of chess from the origins of the game in fifth-century Persia to a modern, public school classroom in New York City. In this illuminating work, Shenk weaves a facinating tapestry of the game's rich heritage. Read this book!
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