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Former Deer Isle-Stonington chess organizer and coach Dick Powell celebrated his 75th birthday ay Flexit Café and Bakery in Ellsworth on Saturday, September 22, 2018. What better way for a chess coaching legend to mark this three-quarter century milestone than with a blitz chess tournament? We were there--with a camera! |
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The first event in the Crusader Cup Series 2018-2019--the John Bapst End of Summer Tournament--is in the books and we have the current standings. There's a two-way tie for first and many competitors close on the leaders' heels. |
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Chess comes in many forms: standard, 960, bughouse, and blindfold to name a few and many time controls: correspondence, standard, quick, blitz, and lightning. On Saturday, September 15, 2018, nineteen players gathered in Saco, Maine to try their hand at a six-round quick chess tournament with a time control of G/25 and a 3-second delay. When the dust cleared, Matthew Fishbein stood at the top of the crosstable with 5.5 points. |
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News Center Maine reporter Hannah Dineen writes that on the first chess club meeting of the year at Weatherbee Elementary School in Hampden, 80 students showed up an hour early to school to learn and play. |
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Always on the lookout for interesting chess-related information and stories, we bring you this article from the BBC Travel website: Our Unique World. It's the story of a small village in southwestern India that has experience a positive impact from the influences of chess. Our favorite quote from the article is attributed to the president of the Chess Association of Marottichal: "We don't watch television here; we play chess and talk to each other." |
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The first tournament of the 2018-2019 Crusader Cup Series was played on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. The Bapst End of Summer tournament attracted thirty-one players in four sections. Here's the illustrated tournament report with US Chess crosstables. |
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Former United States Chess Federation Executive Director and University of Maine English Professor Gerald Dullea passed away on July 29, 2018 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Gerry, along with his University of Maine colleague George Cunningham, ran a chess column in the Bangor (Maine) Daily News for two decades. They also hosted a thirteen-part television series on chess on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. We extend our sincerest condolences to Gerry's family and all those whose lives he touched. |
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National Chess Master and two-time Maine State Chess Champion Alan Schalk will held a free Simultaneous Chess Exhibition at the Wagon Wheel Campground in Old Orchard Beach on Sunday, September 2, 2018. Eight players were brave enough to test their mettle against the master. The results were a convincing 7-1 in favor of Schalk. |
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Maine Chess Association President Michael Dudley has penned the first Maine Chess Association Coaches' Communique. This letter to Maine Chess Coaches provides an update on scholastic chess in Maine, describes the rebirth of the Maine Girls' Championship and introduction of the Maine Women's Championship as well as offers support for chess coaches accross the state. Please help us by passing this on to any and all chess coaches and anyone interested in building scholastic chess in Maine. Thanks! |
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Dan Robbins and Nathan Gates shared equal first at the Bapst Impromptu Swiss #13 played on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. Apart from the winners, the biggest newsmaker of this tournament was Shannon Levesque, the new treasurer of the Maine Chess Association who, with a provisional rating of 100, took down Minh Nguyen rated 794 points higher. |
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