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Gibraltar Final On ICC!
Do you intend over-indulging in turkey and cranberry sauce this year? Not looking forward to the hectic shopping experience of Black Friday? Fed-up watching Steve McQueen in The Great Escape on TV? Then this holiday weekend look no further than an exclusive online qualifier hosted here on the Internet Chess Club!
In conjunction with the Gibtelecom Chess Festival, ICC is offering members a Thanksgiving with a difference with an opportunity to win a round trip ticket, hotel room, breakfast & dinner and an automatic invite to the 8th Gibtelecom Chess Festival, running January 26th to February 4th 2010 at the Caleta Hotel, recently voted Gibraltar's best hotel.
You will be joined by many of the world's leading Grandmasters in an exclusive online qualifier - open to ICC members only - to one of the world's best chess festivals.
The winner of this package will be determined in a two-stage tournament event on ICC, the 6 qualifier tournaments running the weekend of November 27th to 29th, and the 16-player knockout final to be held on Saturday, December 5th. The time control throughout the tournament (both qualifiers and knockout stage) will be 3,0.
This exclusive online Gibtelecom Blitz Tournament Qualifier is open only to ICC members - join ICC by clicking here to be part of the online qualifier. All the rules and conditions to play can be found at http://www.chessclub.com/activities/gibraltar_2010/
Saturday, 05 December: Knockout Final - 2pm Server Time (2pm ET, 8pm CET)
Preliminary (subject to change) list of finalists:
Get set for one of the strongest tournament to be held in the U.K. in over 25 years, with the London Chess Classic (www.londonchessclassic.com) running December 8th-15th at Olympia featuring a truly star-studded field.
The young Norwegian superstar Magnus Carlsen and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia head the eight-player field, and they'll be joined by U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura and Ni Hua of China to complete the four world-class players doing battle with the four highest-rated British Grandmasters: former World Championship challenger Nigel Short, Mickey Adams, Luke McShane and David Howell.
Chess.FM will be covering the London Chess Classic throughout with our usual team of expert grandmaster commentators. Only ICC members can tune-in to Chess.FM for our move-by-move commentary, Trivia competitions and GOTD recaps.
There's going to be a new name on the United States Chess League trophy this year, as the New York Knights get set to take on the Miami Sharks in the finals, to be held on Monday, December 7th here on ICC.
In the semifinals, New York Knights beat the New Jersey Knockouts by 2.5-1.5 to advance to the finals, while the Miami Sharks beat the San Francisco Mechanics, also by 2.5-1.5. In the past, both New York (in 2006) and Miami (in 2005) have reached the finals but lost to San Francisco and Baltimore respectively, so this year one of them will finally see their name on the trophy!
Watch the finals exclusively here on ICC by becoming a member; and also check U.S. Chess League for blog links, games and much, much more. Chess.FM will also have live commentary of the USCL finals with IM Mark Ginsberg and GM Ben Finegold.
"There are more than 300 places to play chess on the internet but, as with nightclubs, there is only one place the 'A list' gravitates to: the Internet Chess Club." — The Sunday Telegraph (London)
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