The 2006 One Day Downeast Open and Downeast Rated Beginners Open are this Saturday, June 17th. Hope to see you over the board in South Portland! Continue reading "Downeast Open" »
Official Site of the Maine Chess Association
Downeast Open
June 13, 2006
The 2006 One Day Downeast Open and Downeast Rated Beginners Open are this Saturday, June 17th. Hope to see you over the board in South Portland! Tired of Driving? Try Surfing!
June 13, 2006
Skyrocketing fuel prices might have you thinking twice before you register for your next tournament. Maine is a large, rural state and it can be difficult and cost prohibitive to get to the next tournament. Enter the internet, which has been refered to as the perfect medium for chess. We started to muse: Would it be possible to play USCF-rated tournaments and matches over the internet? The short answer is yes...and no.
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The Maine Tournament Archive Project
June 5, 2006
The Maine Tournament Archive Project is an ambitious undertaking with the goal of creating an easily accessible, searchable, online database of crosstable and player information from every USCF-rated tournament played in Maine dating from January 1, 1992 to the present.
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ChessMaine Interviews: Bernard "Doc" Mann, Dean of Maine Chess
May 30, 2006
It's not every day you get an opportunity to talk with someone who learned how to play chess when Woodrow Wilson was president. At nintey-seven years young, Bernard "Doc" Mann still plays, teaches and enjoys the game. A gentleman and a scholar, Doc is one of Maine's great ambassadors of chess. After speaking with the man one gets the sense that if chess is important to him, it's worth learning.
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Games from the Maine State Championship
May 24, 2006
Selected games from the recently completed Maine State Championship are now available. The games, along with annotations provided by Fritz 9, can be replayed using our interactive PalMate game viewer. We hope you enjoy these gems and maybe learn a thing or two while you're at it.
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Portland Chess Club Back Online
May 23, 2006
New meeting time and location for the Portland Chess Club.
Beginning Friday, June 2, the Osher Life-long Learning Institute (OLLI) Chess Club (unofficially known as the Portland Chess Club) will begin weekly meetings in Room 43 in the basement of Payson Smith Hall on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. The room is available for play from 6:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. when the building closes.
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Joseph St. Pierre Repeats as State Champion
May 21, 2006
The title of Maine State Champion is an elusive one. Twenty-eight players from all corners of the state came to the Southern Maine Community College Campus Center on May 20th and 21st to take a crack at it. After five rounds the reigning champion Joseph St. Pierre had 4.5 points. That was enough for clear first place in this annual tournament that has become Maine's Holy Grail of Chess.Games from this tournament are coming soon.
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2006 Maine Closed Championship
May 18, 2006
The Maine Closed Championship is just around the corner. This five-round swiss brings out Maine's top players to compete for the title of State Champion. Stay tuned to ChessMaine.net for results, photos and a full tournament report as soon as humanly possible after completion of the last game.Continue reading "2006 Maine Closed Championship" »
National Elementary School Championship, Everyone's A Winner!
May 14, 2006
Seven thousand handshakes later, the 2006 National Elementary School Championship is over. The kids played their hearts out and there were many thrills and some disappointments. Here are the results from Maine's view of the world.Continue reading "National Elementary School Championship, Everyone's A Winner!" »
National Elementary Championship, Day 2
May 14, 2006
With five games down and only two more to play, 2nd Grader Matthew Fishbein is Maine's top point getter with 4.0. Hayden Ciomei and the pair of sisters, Haley DeLuca Lowell and Laddy DeLuca Lowell are in the next tier with 3.0. Today's round times are 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and the closing ceremony is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
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