National Senior High School Championships: Day 1 Report

April 18, 2008

Seven players from John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine made the trek to Atlanta, Georgia to participate in the National Senior High School Championships taking place at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta from April 18 - 20, 2008. This seven-round G/120 tournament played in five sections, attracts the top high school players from across the country to compete for national titles. With two rounds down, Kurt Eyerer leads his teammates with 2.0 points. All other Bapst players have thus far scored 1 and 1.

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Steven Dillon and Jason Spector: 2008 Maine Champions

April 16, 2008

Steven Dillon and Jason Spector both had 4.0 points going into the last round of the 2008 Maine Chess Championship played at the University of Maine, Orono on April 12 - 13, 2008. Agreeing to a quick draw, they clinched the championship with only Roger Morin within reach. Morin, himself the 1980 Maine Champion, could not defeat Ruben Babayan in the last round and had to settle for equal sixth place.

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Videos

April 13, 2008

We bring you a number of video impressions from the scholastic state championships played at the University of Maine, Orono in March. To access these videos directly you may also click on the Videos link at the top of the left-hand margin on any ChessMaine.net page.

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Bapst Fundraiser Tournament Report

April 13, 2008

With Georgia on their mind and a scene from White Christmas outside the window, the John Bapst chess team joined by tournament stalwart Paul Ciarrocchi and fledgling player Dana Wilson played a USCF-rated octet Friday evening April 4, 2008 in the FFA room of the Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus in Orono.

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ChessMaine.net Selected as Site of the Day

April 11, 2008

ChessMaine.net has been selected as Site of the Day for April 11, 2008 by the popular Maine website, aroundmaine.com. We extend our sincere thanks to the staff at aroundmaine.com for recognizing ChessMaine.net and to Andy Bryan for nominating the site for consideration.

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John Bapst Chess on WLBZ Channel 2 in Bangor

April 9, 2008

WLBZ Channel 2 in Bangor recently featured the John Bapst Chess Team (this year's high school co-champions with Bangor High School) in a news report profiling the team and their preparation for the High School National Championship that will take place from April 18 - 20, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out the story and accompanying video.

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Maine State Championship *Reminder*

April 8, 2008

The Maine State Championship will take place this weekend, April 12 - 13, 2008 at the University of Maine, Orono. This five-round Swiss tournament is open to Maine residents, students and military personnel stationed in Maine. Time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by sudden death in 60 minutes. The first place finisher will be awarded the Maine State Champion title, $200 and the Harlow B. Daly trophy. Winners in classes A-D as well as U1200 will be awarded $100. Hope to see you this weekend at Maine's premier tournament.

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Susan Polgar Foundation Chess Curriculum

April 7, 2008

Grandmaster Susan Polgar has created a chess curriculum to assist in the teaching and learning of chess to beginner and intermediate players. Thanks to GM Polgar we can make this very useful tool available to you.

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Maine Scholastic Chess Players Featured In Morning Sentinel

April 7, 2008

Two central Maine scholastic chess players were highlighted in an article that appeared in the Morning Sentinel newspaper on March 27, 2008. Langdon Holly of Waterville and George Spahn of Palermo, both of whom participated in the recent Maine Scholastic Individual Championship, are featured in this interesting read.

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John Bapst High School Fundraising Tournament

April 2, 2008

The Maine state scholastic tournaments have concluded and we now have an opportunity to support one of the winning teams in their bid to attend the National Senior High School Championship to be held April 18-20, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. We hope you can attend the John Bapst High School Fundraising Tournament in Orono this Friday night. If you can't attend, please consider making a donation to the team.

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