Maine Chess Club Plays Tromso, Norway to Celebrate Boris Spassky's 84th Birthday

01.30.21 Today is Boris Spassky's 84th birthday. To commemorate and celebrate this auspicious day the Maine-based chess club Batani will play a match vs the Tromso, Norway Sjakklubb at noon eastern on Sunday, January 31, 2021. You can watch the match on the Batani Club Page on lichess.org. We wish the 10th World Chess Champion the best of health and happiness!



Boris Spassky (right) plays Albin Planic in 1973.
image: Dutch National Archives

Each competitor will play two games (one with each color) at a time control of game in 20 minutes.

You can watch the match on the Batani Club Page on lichess.org.

One of the Maine players, Aaron Spencer, will be streaming his games with commentary live on Twitch.

The Maine (Batani) Chess Club currently consists of the following players indicated with their lichess.org rapid chess ratings:

1. Wyatt Hendrix - 2310

2. Matthew Fishbein - 2300

3. Max Berube - 2253

4. Tommy Owen - 2222

5. Aaron Spencer - 2190

6. Ruben Babayan- 2167

7. Pavel Sulyandziga - 2125

8. Stephen Morse - 2094

9. Derrick Crocker - 2082

10. Barry Magda - 1988

11. Ben Mock - 1943

12. Zach Brislin - 1935

13. Bill Nadolny - 1820

14. Andrey Savov - 1800

15. Dan DeLuca - 1667

16. Michael Dudley - 1521

17. James Mccain - 1050

The Tromso Chess Club:

1. GM Benjamin Arvola Notkevich (2466) (sjakk98765)
2. IM Mads Vestby-Ellingsen (2340) (Mv17)
3. FM Gunnar Lund (2312) (SnekkerAndersen)
4. Pеl Royset (2178) (Sommerfugl)
5. Gunnar Berg Hanssen (2147) (GunnarBergHanssen)
6. Mattias Ugelvik (ca. 2000) (FinkelFrand)
7. Ўyvind Pedersen (2013) (OyvindPedersen)
8. Paul Johan Jensen (1925) (peile33)
9. Amir Keadana (1826) (Tromsitt)
10. Geir Magne Lorentsen (1831) (Gmagne)
11. Evsuld Myagmarsuren (1678) (MYS-EVS)
12. Nikolai Olsen Wernberg (1678) (Nikolsen)
13. Michael W Fuglesang Heatpatrol (1695) (Heatpatrol)
14. Vegard Andreassen (1556) )what_iff)
15. Stein Paulsen (ca. 1600) (Stonerockenroll)
16. Birk Sжther Rostad (1342) (birkern)
17. Marius Wittwer (1175) (Witty95)

This event is organized on the Maine side by Dr. Pavel Sulyandziga, a founder and current president of the International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity (Batani) Foundation. Batani was created as an initiative of indigenous peoples in 2004 to organize development projects for indigenous peoples in Russia. For more information of the work of the Batani Foundation please visit their official website.

The homepage of the Tromso Sjakklubb is >> HERE. <<


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Greetings from Tromsø!

We look forward to the match - please make sure all players have read the match-instructions. Mail me if you have any questions or use our Lobby at Lichess.

http://tromsosjakk.no/nettsjakk-lichess/important-information-the-match-tromso-vs-maine-january-31/

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