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Two hundred fifty-two scholastic chess players turned out for the 2022 Maine Scholastic Chess Team Championships played at Lewiston High School on Saturday, March 12, 2022. Titles and trophies were awarded in five sections: High School Championship, High School Reserve, Middle School Championship, Elementary Championship, and Primary Championship. |
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Maine Chess Association president Michael Dudley updates the Maine chess community on the state of MECA and chess in Maine. |
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Despite the winter weather expected in the region tomorrow, the Maine Scholastic Team Chess Championships will take place as scheduled on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at Lewiston High School. For more information on the tournament please visit ChessMaine.net/events. |
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On February 28, 2022, MECA President Michael Dudley was awarded the title of Correspondence Chess Expert from the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF). In order to receive this title, a player has to obtain two tournament norms in certain tournaments totaling at least 24 games, meeting a designated performance in each tournament. We extend our hearty congratulations! |
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On February 26, 2022, seventeen players from Bowdoin and the University of Southern Maine gathered at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine, for a series of Scheveningen System matches. Four teams, an A team and a B team, gathered up for US Chess rated matches and competition for trophies and prizes. |
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Twenty-two chess players, including Kathy Richards herself, gathered in Brunswick to play in the Richards Maine Girls' Chess Championship and the fourth Maine Women's Championship. The Richards is Maine's nominating tournament for the WIM Ruth Haring National Girls' Tournament of Champions, held this year in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Susan Polgar Invitational, held at Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri. |
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The United States Chess Federation has updated their publication of Guide to a Successful Chess Club. We are able to bring this guide to you here and hope that it will help you begin and maintain a successful chess club. |
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The application for the Roger J. Morin Scholarship Prizes is up! The Morin Scholarship is open to Maine graduating seniors and undergraduate students who are members of the chess community and actively engaged or committed to college in the Fall of 2022. This year, up to five awards of up to $750 total will be awarded. Applications should be submitted by March 31 for consideration; awards will be announced by April 30, 2022. |
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This is a last call for any game submissions for the latest George Cunningham Brilliancy Prize, which will reward a brilliant game played during Quarter 4 of 2021 (October, November, and December). To be eligible to win the prize, the winner should be a MECA member in good standing. The game can be played in any format. |
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A meeting of the Maine Chess Association Executive Board took place via Zoom on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. The meeting was attended by Michael Dudley (President), Dan DeLuca (Vice-President), Wyatt Hendrix (Secretary), Oisin O'Searcoid (Treasurer), Elisabeth Mock (EB member), Stephen Wong (EB member), Kate Ervin Kaplan (EB member), and Elizabeth Mock (EB Member). Here are the minutes from the meeting. |
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