Maine Chess Player of the Year Current Standings

October 11, 2007

With one event to go, Ruben Babayan leads the 2007 Maine Chess Player of the Year competition by just over three points. Barring a catastrophe at this weekend's Maine Open, this padding nearly guarantees another title for the expert player from Portland. ChessMaine will bring you an illustrated tournament report from the Maine Open as well as final results for the Player of the Year competition. In the meantime here are the numbers.

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Maine scholastic players in USCF top 100 lists

October 4, 2007

Three Maine scholastic players are firmly entrenched in the October 2007 USCF top 100 players in the nation lists based on age. Lucas McCain (1808) is the fifty-sixth strongest fifteen-year-old in the U.S., Cullen Edes (1783) the eighty-sixth strongest eighteen-year-old and Matthew Fishbein (1337) the sixty-second strongest nine-year-old. ChessMaine salutes the accomplishments of these wicked good Maine players--Ayuh!

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MACC Fall Planning Meeting

October 3, 2007

The Maine Association of Chess Coaches (MACC) will be having its Fall Planning Meeting on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. in the University of Maine, Orono Memorial Union. Main items on the agenda include selection of tournament leaders, coordinators and directors for the state scholastic chess championships taking place in the spring. Here's the draft agenda and a heartfelt plea for volunteers!

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Stillwater Montessori School Chess Club

October 2, 2007

The Stillwater Montessori School After School Chess Club is starting up on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will meet on Wednesdays when school is in session. It's a free program and will be held at the elementary school location on South Brunswick Street in Old Town. All are welcomed, adults as well as students.

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2007 Eastern Maine Open Tournament Report

October 1, 2007

Maine Chess Association president Phil Lowell knotched his second tournament victory of the year (his first being at the ChessMaine.net Championship) with a perfect score of 4.0 at the Eastern Maine Open played on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at the University of Maine, Orono. Lowell was followed by Ruben Babayan with 3.5 and Lucan McCain and Fritz Eyerer each with 3.0. Here's the big illustrated report with USCF crosstables.

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Mexico City Round 14: Viswanathan Anand is world champion!

September 29, 2007

With a final round draw vs. Peter Leko, Vishy Anand has clinched the world championship title. Undefeated in this fourteen round tournament, Anand turned in a performance rating of 2848 to take his place amongst the lineage of world chess champions beginning with Wilhelm Steinitz in 1886. Congratulations Vishy! Kramnik fought back in the last round to beat Aronian and tie for second place with Boris Gelfand who drew with Morozevitch.

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Mexico City Round 13: Kramnik has lost the title

September 28, 2007

Kramnik and Gelfand played to a draw and with that Kramnik has lost the title of world champion. Leko playing the white pieces beat Morozevich. Grischuk - Anand turned out to be the game of the day, it was a long and interesting struggle that, at points, Anand was in jeopardy of losing. He fought gallantly and maintained the draw. With only one round to go there is one configuration in which Anand would tie for the title and not win it outright. Anand would need to lose to Leko and Gelfand would have to beat Morozevich. This scenario highly unlikely as Anand - Leko will undoubtedly be a quick draw.

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Mexico City Round 12: It's getting interesting

September 27, 2007

There were three decisive games this round: Morozevich, Kramnik and Gelfand all won while Svidler and Anand agreed to a twenty-two move draw. With two rounds to go this tournament is getting very interesting and it's by no means over. Gelfand - Kramnik will be a key match up in Friday's round thirteen.

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Mexico City Round 11: Anand seizes the day

September 26, 2007

Viswanathan Anand playing the white pieces against Alexander Morozevich saw his opportunity and seized it. With his fifty-six move victory, Anand pulls ahead of Gelfand (who is still clinging to second place) by one and a half points. With three rounds to go Anand will be very difficult to catch. All other games this round were drawn including Kramnik's peaceful thirteen move outing vs. Grischuk. Here's the big illustrated report.

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Eastern Maine Open: Saturday, September 29, 2007

September 25, 2007

With all the action at the World Championship in Mexico City, let's not forget about local chess in Maine. The Eastern Maine Open is coming up on Saturday, September 29th. This four round, G/60 event will be played at the University of Maine, Orono and will have prizes for sections from Open down to Class G. Here are all the specifics.

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