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The rematch is on. Vishy Anand has won the fourteen round FIDE Candidates Tournament held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia to select the challenger to World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a match scheduled for later this year. Sergey Karjakin finished in clear second while Levon Aronian, the tournament's highest rated player and de facto favorite to challenge Carlsen, finished a disappointing equal sixth. |
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Of the 254 players competing in seven sections of the Eastern Class Championships on the weekend of March 14th, 2014 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, ten were from the great state of Maine. Aaron Spencer and Troy Franklin played in the Expert (2000-2199) section, Jim DuBois and John Phythyon played in the Class A (1800-1999) section, William Ravn, Curt Brock, Gabe Borland and Greg Anderson played in the Class B (1600-1799) section and Brian Hurst and Dan DeLuca tried their hand in the Class C (1400-1599) section. Here's the illustrated tournament report with USCF crosstables and a selected game. |
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Over the past few weeks, Maine's mainstream print media has been abuzz with chess in general and Matthew Fishbein in particular. We bring to your attention today two more articles--one appearing in the Bangor Daily News and The Forecaster, one in the Lincoln County News and yet another story in the Portland Press Herald--that are helping to get chess into our collective public consciousness. |
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Seventy-two scholastic chess players gathered at the University of Maine Memorial Union in Orono on March 22nd 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. Here's the illustrated tournament report with USCF crosstables. |
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On Sunday, March 22nd a front page article describing the rising popularity of chess among Maine's youth appeared in the Portland Press Herald--Maine's largest daily newspaper. We have linked the article here, the third mainstream media article this week focusing on chess in Maine, courtesy of the author Kelley Bouchard. |
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A recent article appeared in the online magazine Current interviewing Matthew Fishbein currently the highest rated player in Maine. We reproduce the article, written by Kate Irish Collins, for your enjoyment. |
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Former Deer Isle-Stonington chess player Cameron Wendell took the Blue Hill Consolidated School K-6 team to first place at the state team chess championships. The following article by Anne Berleant was originally published in the (Blue Hill, Maine) Weekly Packet on March 13, 2014. |
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The 2014 State Scholastic Chess Team Championships were held Saturday, March 8th, in the Memorial Union, at the University of Maine Orono. Two hundred seventy-seven players supported by coaches and parents gathered to contest team honors in the K-3, K-6, Junior High, and High School sections. Also at stake were individual achievements leading to invitation to the Individual Championships to be held at the same location on March 22. Each player competed in four games with team honors decided by total points scored for the four games or, in the case of the High School Championship section, by head-to-head match play. |
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Are you serious about improving your chess and increasing your rating? USCF and FIDE certified Coach Jim DuBois will be holding exclusive ongoing Round Robin, rated tournaments including game analysis beginning April 19th in Damariscotta at his Chess Center. Open to youth and adult |
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Deer Isle-Stonington chess coach Dick Powell is gearing his teams up for the upcoming scholastic team state championships at the University of Maine Orono on March 8th. The veteran coach of thirty-three state championship teams and twenty-three runner up teams took time out to speak with us for this exclusive interview. |
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The world's largest team chess tournament--the 44th Annual World Amateur Team East--was played at the Parsippany, New Jersey Hilton on February 15-17, 2014. Of the 1,173 players in 278 teams five were from the great state of Maine! As far as we know, this represented the first time in the history of the tournament that Maine had fielded a team. The Maine team consisted of four players: Aaron Spencer, Troy Franklin, Jim DuBois and Gabe Borland. Matthew Fishbein played on a mixed team with his coach IM David Vigorito. |
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A whopping sixty-two players competed in the All Saints Winter Warm-Up tournament played at All Saints School in Bangor on Saturday, February 22, 2014. This event serves as a dry run for the upcoming scholastic state championships coming up on March 8th (teams) and March 22nd (individuals). Here's the illustrated tournament report with USCF crosstables and a selected game from the Open section. |
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