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It's time to elect the Maine Chess Association Policy Board for 2014-15. The Policy Board consists of four officers and four directors to assist with promoting chess activities in Maine, including the Maine State Chess Championship tournament and to support the official MECA website, ChessMaine.net. Policy Board members serve a two-year term. |
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With one tournament still remaining on the Maine Chess Player of the Year calendar, Roger Morin has put the competition out of reach and will be the 2013 Player of the Year. Congratulations Roger! Morin scored a whopping 62.4 points far ahead of second place finisher Lance Beloungie with 44.1. If the standings remain constant after the Aurora Winter Solstice coming up this weekend, Jarod Bryan will take third with 37.3 points. |
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Forty players met over the board at the Fall Chess@ UMaine Augusta Tournament played on the campus of the University of Maine in Augusta on November 16th, 2013. The tournament was contested in nine sections with ratings ranging from USCF 1977 to 347. Here's the illustrated tournament report with crosstables. |
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Ben Monaghan, a volunteer at the Maine Chess Academy, has mounted a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the Academy which holds regular training sessions in East End Community School and Howard C. Reiche Community School in Portland. Falmouth Forecaster Journalist Ben McCanna recently wrote an article describing Monaghan's efforts to promote scholastic chess in Maine. |
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Eleven players turned out to compete in the 2013 Presque Isle Player of the Year Tournament on November 16th, 2013 at the University of Maine, Presque Isle. Here's the illustrated tournament report with results and USCF crosstable. |
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Magnus Carlsen has become the 16th World Chess Champion after Game 10 in his match with Vishwanathan Anand ended in a sixty-five move draw. The game was a dynamic one in which Carlsen spurned a triple-repeat draw on at least two occasions. In his words, "As long as there was no risk I thought I should try to win it." He added, "It was a nice fight and a worthy end to the match." |
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It was do-or-die for Anand and he and everyone else knew it. The World Champion played 1. d4 and threw everything he had at the challenger in the form of the Saemisch Variation of the Nimzo Indian Defense. It was a textbook kingside vs queenside battle. Seeing that he was not getting mated on the kingside, Carlsen pushed his b-pawn to b3 on his twenty-second move and Anand's attack recoiled on the head of its general. Although Carlsen still needs half a point to win the crown, the match, for all intents and purposes, is over. |
Continue reading "WCC R9: Carlsen Wins Game 9, World Title is All But Decided" »
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Carlsen played 1. e4 and it was Anand's turn to play the Berlin Defense. The game followed well-trodden lines with Carlsen playing his first nineteen moves in six minutes and twenty-two moves in ten minutes. No weaknesses appeared on the board and after Anand played 33...h5 a wry smile appeared on his lips and the players shook hands. Anand will have the white pieces in Game 9 scheduled for Thursday, November 21st. |
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The world champion was unable to generate anything substantial in his second consecutive game with the white pieces. Again playing 1.e4 and running into Carlsen's Berlin Defense, Anand failed to make meaningful inroads and chose to repeat the position for a draw after thirty-two moves. The match score is now Carlsen 4.5 - Anand 2.5 with five games to play. |
Continue reading "WCC R7: Anand Poses Few Problems, Game 7 Drawn in 32 Moves" »
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Garry Kasparov has referred to Magnus Carlsen as the Harry Potter of Chess. The Norwegian certainly showed his wizard-like command of the pieces today when he transformed the game from an equal position into one with a winning advantage and finally forced Anand's resignation on move sixty-seven. Carslen now takes a commanding 4-2 lead in the match with six games to play. |
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