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On February 26, 2022, seventeen players from Bowdoin and the University of Southern Maine gathered at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine, for a series of Scheveningen System matches. Four teams, an A team and a B team, gathered up for US Chess rated matches and competition for trophies and prizes. |
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Twenty-two chess players, including Kathy Richards herself, gathered in Brunswick to play in the Richards Maine Girls' Chess Championship and the fourth Maine Women's Championship. The Richards is Maine's nominating tournament for the WIM Ruth Haring National Girls' Tournament of Champions, held this year in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Susan Polgar Invitational, held at Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri. |
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The United States Chess Federation has updated their publication of Guide to a Successful Chess Club. We are able to bring this guide to you here and hope that it will help you begin and maintain a successful chess club. |
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The application for the Roger J. Morin Scholarship Prizes is up! The Morin Scholarship is open to Maine graduating seniors and undergraduate students who are members of the chess community and actively engaged or committed to college in the Fall of 2022. This year, up to five awards of up to $750 total will be awarded. Applications should be submitted by March 31 for consideration; awards will be announced by April 30, 2022. |
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This is a last call for any game submissions for the latest George Cunningham Brilliancy Prize, which will reward a brilliant game played during Quarter 4 of 2021 (October, November, and December). To be eligible to win the prize, the winner should be a MECA member in good standing. The game can be played in any format. |
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A meeting of the Maine Chess Association Executive Board took place via Zoom on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. The meeting was attended by Michael Dudley (President), Dan DeLuca (Vice-President), Wyatt Hendrix (Secretary), Oisin O'Searcoid (Treasurer), Elisabeth Mock (EB member), Stephen Wong (EB member), Kate Ervin Kaplan (EB member), and Elizabeth Mock (EB Member). Here are the minutes from the meeting. |
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Ten players competed in the Skowhegan Area High School January Blitz chess tournament on Thursday, January 20, 2022. Although the event was non-rated, it was the first chess event in the school's history using US Chess official pairing rules and tournament regulations. The SAHS Chess Club looks forward to hosting rated chess tournaments in the near future. Congratulations to Jack Donoghue who won the events with a perfect four points in four games and to all who participated. |
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The Board of the Maine Chess Association has released the MECA Annual Report for 2022. The Report highlights how far the Association has come fulfilling its mission statement of Connecting Mainers through chess, sizes up current challenges in the state of chess in Maine, and looks forward with optimism as MECA continues to grow and serve its members and the chess community moving forward. |
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Maine Chess Association president Michael Dudley shares the state of MECA and chess in Maine with his letter From the Desk of the President. |
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The George Cunningham Brilliancy Prize committee is now accepting submissions for the fourth quarter of 2021! If you have a game that you would like to submit, email a PGN or other text file of the game to Wyatt Hendrix igmwhendrix@gmail.com or Aaron Spencer aaronspencer92@gmail.com for consideration. To be eligible to receive the George Cunningham Brilliancy Prize, the winner must be a MECA member in good standing, and the game must have been played in the fourth quarter of 2021 (October 1 through December 31). |
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