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The ChessMaine.net Championship will take place on the beautiful campus of Colby College in Waterville on Saturday, June 30th. This three-section, four-round tournament has a prize fund of $1,100 based on 45 entries. A free continental breakfast is included. Don't miss your chance to participate in one of Maine's premier chess events! |
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John Bapst Memorial High School Freshman Haley DeLuca Lowell has been selected to represent Maine at the Susan Polgar National Invitational Tournament for Girls to take place at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri from July 21-27, 2012. Each state chess association is asked to send one representative to the tournament to compete on the national stage. Please consider a gift of any amount to help support Haley's participation in this tournament. Pledges can be mailed to Andy Bryan, Maine Chess Association President, 254 South Road, Holden, ME 04429. Thank you. |
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After twelve games with classical time control ended in a 6-6 tie between World Champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand the match moved on to the tiebreak phase and four games played at the rapid time control of just 25 minutes for each player and a 10 second increment added after each move. Game 2, the only decisive game of the tiebreak, was won by Anand playing the white pieces. With that win and the following two draws Anand was able to hold onto the title by the slimmest of margins. Such is world championship level chess these days--top players are separated by nearly imperceptible differences. |
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The Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners Chess Team participated in the Junior High School National Tournament in San Diego, California on April 27-29, 2012 and came home with a 6th place finish in the U1000 section and a 9th place finish in the U750 section. Strong individual performances were turned in my many players. Here are photos and details. |
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World Champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand are in Moscow for the twelve-round 2012 FIDE World Championship Match. The first six rounds saw draw after draw as the players felt each other out and probed for weaknesses in their opponent's game. Then Gelfand drew first blood with a win playing the white pieces in Game 7. Perhaps even more surprising than Gelfand taking the lead (Anand is, by most popular opinion, the stronger player) was the way in which Anand regained equality--on the very next game in a mere seventeen moves! After the fireworks of games seven and eight, the players drew the following two games and are tied at five points apiece with two games remaining. |
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On March 30th six players competed in a three-round tournament at the University of Maine in Orono to raise funds for the John Bapst Memorial High School Chess Team. The event was won by UMO student Max Berube with a perfect score of 3.0 points. Yuri Riabkov and Dan DeLuca tied for second with 2.0 points apiece. |
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The Maine State Chess Championship was played on April 21-22, 2012 at the Best Western Inn Plus in Waterville. After five grueling rounds three players surfaced with 4.0 points and shared state championship honors: Jarod Bryan, Matthew Fishbein and Aaron Spencer. Congratulations to our newest state champions! |
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On March 10th, the Royal Court of Maine sponcered a four-quad, round robin tournament at the University of Maine at Augusta dubbed only YACT (Yet Another Chess Tournament). Winners in Quads 1-4 respectively were: Jarod Bryan, Barry Magda, Lee Doucette and Daniel Keliher. |
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The 2012 Maine Closed Chess Championship will take place in Waterville this weekend, April 21-22, at the Best Western Grand Waterville Hotel. This tournament is the Maine Chess Association's flagship event and will attract many of the strongest players from all corners of the state. Don't miss your opportunity to participate in this once-a-year event! |
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Seventy-four scholastic chess players gathered at the University of Maine Memorial Union on March 17th to duel for individual honors in K-3, K-6, K-8, and K-12 championship and Under 1200 sections. The hard-fought games often went down to the last moment of the allotted time, and saw both interesting and surprising results. |
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