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The Penobscot Valley Conference High School Chess League's 2007 - 2008 season is underway. The four high schools that participate in the league are Bangor High School, Hampden Academy, John Bapst Memorial High School and Orono High School. We bring you a pictoral report from the kick-off match at Hampden Academy on Monday, October 29, 2007, the PVC Game of the Week and the scheudule of PVC matches to come. |
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| The Hampden Harvest Tournament at Hampden Academy is this Saturday, November 3, 2007. This four-round tournament will be played in three sections: Open, K-12 and K-8. Cash prizes and trophies will be up for grabs. The first round begins at 9:30 a.m. More information including a registration form and directions are here. |  |
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The scholastic chess teams of Deer Isle - Stonington will be hosting a chess-a-thon from Friday, November 9, -Saturday, November 10, 2007 to have fun, play a lot of chess, stay up all night and last but not least: to raise money for a possible trip to the 2008 National Scholastic Chess Championships. |
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| A new club has been added to the Maine Chess Club Directory. Chess enthusiasts of all levels are welcome to learn, play, and compete on Wednesday afternoons from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Springvale Public Library in Springvale, Maine. Instructor Jim Davis is back to lead the lively and fun Chess Club. |  |
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| The Maine Chess Association will be holding its annual meeting on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 13 Lincoln Street in Brunswick, Maine. The meeting will begin at 12:30 p.m. and items on the docket for discussion include: the Maine Team Championship, on-line election of MECA officers, ammending the MECA Constitution and MECA finances. Here are the details with an agenda and directions to the meeting site. |  |
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Chess-in-the-Schools, the not-for-profit educational organization that teaches chess to kindergarten through eighth grade children in New York's inner-city public schools, offers a two-day Teacher Training Institute with the goal of assisting teachers to sucessfully implement chess programs in their schools. Your intrepid reporter recently travelled to New York, took the training and returned with these impressions. |
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| Ruben Babayan scored three points at the Maine Open on October 13, 2007 at Southern Maine Community College to tie for first with Andrew Tichenor, Lucas McCain and Derrick Crocker. With this win Babayan becomes the 2007 Maine Chess Player of the Year. Congratulations Ruben! John Bapst High School student Aaron Spencer won the U1600 section and Scott Overlock and Reed Wommack shared first in the Rated Beginners Open section. |  |
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The chess program at Nathan Clifford Elementary School in Portland is experiencing tremendous interest and record numbers of third through fifth graders. Chess instructors Frank Smith and Jon Malev are looking for volunteers to help teach, monitor and play chess with their students. The class meets Wednesdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the third floor auditorium. If you're interested come on by or contact Jon at jsmalev@yahoo.com |
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| With one event to go, Ruben Babayan leads the 2007 Maine Chess Player of the Year competition by just over three points. Barring a catastrophe at this weekend's Maine Open, this padding nearly guarantees another title for the expert player from Portland. ChessMaine will bring you an illustrated tournament report from the Maine Open as well as final results for the Player of the Year competition. In the meantime here are the numbers. |  |
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Three Maine scholastic players are firmly entrenched in the October 2007 USCF top 100 players in the nation lists based on age. Lucas McCain (1808) is the fifty-sixth strongest fifteen-year-old in the U.S., Cullen Edes (1783) the eighty-sixth strongest eighteen-year-old and Matthew Fishbein (1337) the sixty-second strongest nine-year-old. ChessMaine salutes the accomplishments of these wicked good Maine players--Ayuh! |
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| The Maine Association of Chess Coaches (MACC) will be having its Fall Planning Meeting on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. in the University of Maine, Orono Memorial Union. Main items on the agenda include selection of tournament leaders, coordinators and directors for the state scholastic chess championships taking place in the spring. Here's the draft agenda and a heartfelt plea for volunteers! |  |
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The Stillwater Montessori School After School Chess Club is starting up on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will meet on Wednesdays when school is in session. It's a free program and will be held at the elementary school location on South Brunswick Street in Old Town. All are welcomed, adults as well as students. |
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| Maine Chess Association president Phil Lowell knotched his second tournament victory of the year (his first being at the ChessMaine.net Championship) with a perfect score of 4.0 at the Eastern Maine Open played on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at the University of Maine, Orono. Lowell was followed by Ruben Babayan with 3.5 and Lucan McCain and Fritz Eyerer each with 3.0. Here's the big illustrated report with USCF crosstables. |  |
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