The Massachusetts Chess Association (MACA) has become the Boston Blitz’s first ever Blitz Benefactor, sponsoring them for the 2008 USCL season.

MACA is an educational non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote chess in Massachusetts and this sponsorship deal fits well with MACA’s missions in that it has enabled the Blitz to attract some of the best players in the state to represent them for 2008, looking for that elusive first USCL Championship.

MACA’s sponsorship of the Blitz also leads by example for other state associations across the country and the effects of their sponsorship could potentially benefit every other team in the USCL if others decide to follow suit to help support their own professional chess players.

“We are all very excited about MACA’s sponsorship,” stated Matt Phelps, Manager of the Blitz, “it provided that extra incentive to allow us to retain the services of several key players from last year and to add David (Vigorito), Marc (Esserman) and Charles (Riordan) to an already explosive team.”  Matt went on to add “it is also a two-way street for us in terms of the exposure we can provide to MACA via our website and flyer initiatives that were launched last year.  We are also intending on live broadcasting every game we play this season via the Blitz website increasing the number of online spectators for all of our games.”

Prior to this sponsorship, most of the Blitz’s funds had come from the USCL’s sponsorship deal with Pokerstars.com and via personal donations made through the Blitz Buddy sponsorship initiative launched last year.  The Blitz continue to seek further sponsorship for the team and interested parties can visit the Blitz Sponsorship Page.