Teenage chess king crownedMaine State Chess Championship winner Matthew Fishbein is an eighth-grader in Cape Elizabeth.By Glenn JordanStaff Writer CAPE ELIZABETH – The King of Maine is a kid. For the first time in the 54-year history of the...
Maine State Scholastic Chess Team Championships
Maine State Scholastic Chess Team Championshipsby Meghan Hayward – March 5th 2011 06:08pm Orono – The Maine State Scholastic Chess Team Championships were held at the University of Maine Saturday. It’s a team competition for folks in kindergarten up...
‘Border Battle Cup’
NH chess players top Maine in ‘Border Battle Cup’By JOSHUA CLARKSeptember 19, 2010 2:00 AM PORTSMOUTH — For the first time in more than 30 years, premier chess players from Maine and New Hampshire faced off in the “Border...
Judy wins Maine Championship
York man takes state chess titleTies with five others for top spotBy Susan MorseMarch 31, 2010 2:00 AM YORK — York’s Richard Judy, 49, is the state’s newest chess champion. Judy tied with five others at the Maine State...
Scholastic domination
CAPE ELIZABETH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CHESS team won the Junior High Maine State Scholastic Chess Team Championship with 17 out of 20 possible points. Top scorers included Matthew Reale-Hatem, seventh grade, Matthew Fishbein, sixth grade and Wesley Parker, fifth...
3-way tie for first at Colby tournament
Chess tournament at Colby a 3-way tieBY COLIN HICKEYStaff Writer06/29/2009 WATERVILLE — Three players tied for top honors at Saturday’s ChessMaine.net Championships at Colby College. Adam Schaff, Roger Morin and Phil Lowell Jr. each finished with three wins and...
Skill and endurance
Chess tourney wins come by way of skill and enduranceBy COLIN HICKEYStaff Writer06/28/2009 WATERVILLE — Adam Schaff, a software engineer from New Gloucester, came into Saturday’s fourth annual ChessMaine.net Championships as the field’s only expert rated player. Schaff, 35,...
Chess Maine
ChessMaine.net Championships set SaturdayBY COLIN HICKEYStaff Writer WATERVILLE — Edward Hatch played chess for the first time about 40 years ago, and his interest in the game has never waned. “I just enjoy the competition,” the Palermo resident said,...
Sorel Edes to represent Maine
Sorel Edes drew against Haley DeLuca Lowell in the last round to earn the right to represent Maine at the Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls to be played July 27 – August 1, 2008 at Texas Tech University...
Spector shines
Bowdoin Brief: Spector ’09 named Maine chess champMay 4, 2007By Bobby Guerette Orient Staff Maine chess enthusiasts should be on guard. There’s a new king in the state, and he’s a Bowdoin student. Jason Spector ’09 took top honors...