First Houlton Open 2012

January 15, 2012

Todd Snyder overwhelmed all of his opponents, including former Maine champion Roger Morin, to score 4.0 points and win the First Houlton Open 2012, the first Maine Chess Association sponsored Maine Chess Player of the Year event of 2012. Morin took second with 3.0 points. The big story was, however, Colby College student Joe Fishman who gained 299 USCF rating points to finish with 2.5 points an a provisional USCF rating of 1781 in this his second rated tournament.

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The Best of ChessMaine.net 2011

December 31, 2011

Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? On the contrary, in fact, the calendar indicates the time is nigh for The Best of ChesMaine.net--our annual year-end retrospective of all things chess in Maine for 2011.

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MECA Election Results

December 26, 2011

Votes have been cast, ballots have been tallied and the results are in! Maine Chess Association members have chosen a slate of officers and policy board members for the 2012-2014 term. Congratulations and thanks to all those who put their hat into the ring to serve the Maine chess community and beyond.

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Anticipation...and a Challenge

December 21, 2011

The by now famous Best of ChessMaine.net end of the year review will be coming to a computer screen near you soon. While our legions of bean counters pore over reams of statistical data separating the wheat from the chaff, we encourage you to take a crack at this composed problem of retrograde analysis. If it's too easy, don't despair, we've got plenty more of the fiendishly maddening variety.

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Spring Scholastic Chess Season Gets Underway

December 21, 2011

The spring scholastic chess season unofficially got underway with the first Ellsworth K-8 Chess Afternoon at the Ellsworth Middle School on Monday, December 12th, 2011. Over one hundred scholastic players from seven schools participated in this annual harbinger of the competitive scholastic chess season.

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11th Presque Isle Tournament Report

December 20, 2011

Seven players competed in the 11th Presque Isle Chess Tournament at the University of Maine, Presque Isle on December 17th, 2011. Roger Morin topped the four-player open section with 3.0 points in three games. In the reserve section, Arthur Ryzak scored two wins and two draws to take first place. Here's the express tournament report and a selected game.

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Chess Club Plays on With Renewed Funding

December 18, 2011

In an article appearing in the December 8th edition of the online journal Village Soup Ethan Andrews tells the story of the Belfast Free Library Chess Club now back in business after a brief hiatus. We bring you the story in its entirety.

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Ian Youth Second at New England Scholastics

December 18, 2011

Ian Youth, a student at the Breakwater School in Portland, finished second in the elemantary section of the 8th Annual New England Scholastic Chess Championships held on December 10th-11th, 2011 in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. With only one loss in seven rounds Youth, the only Maine player at the event, scored 5.0 points.

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Aurora Winter Solstice Tournament Report

December 14, 2011

Thirty-four players (equaling about 34% of the population of the small hamlet in which this tournament was played) competed in the seventh annual Aurora Winter Solstice Chess Tournament at the Airline Community School in Aurora, Maine on Sunday, December 11th, 2011. Matthew Fishbein and Roger Morin tied for first in the open section, Dan Fishbein was the highest-scoring U1400 player, Cameron Wendell won the U1000 and Max DeLuca Lowell took the top spot in the U600 section.

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UMaine Augusta Quads Tournament Report

December 8, 2011

Eight players filled out two quads at the UMaine Augusta Chess Tournament played on November 19th, 2011 on the campus of the University of Maine at Augusta. Barry Magda and Joshua Quint tied for first in Quad 1 and Kathy Richards took the top spot in Quad 2.

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