ICC News Item #1490

NEWS 1490 (12-Mar-01)
Live Coverage of US-China Summit Match March 14-18

The Chessclub.com broadcast team will be showing games from the
US-China Summit Match taking place in Seattle, Washington, USA
March 14-18.  There will be 10 boards playing in each of the
four rounds:  6 boards from the "general" teams", 2 from the
women's teams, and 2 from the junior teams.

Among the players will be twelve Grandmasters:  Shabalov, Gulko,
Christiansen, Kaidanov, Ivanov, Seirawan, and Benjamin from the USA,
and Ye Jiangchuan, Xu Jun, Peng Xiaomin, Zhang Zhong, and Xie Jun
from China.

Round 1  Wednesday March 14, 4:30 PM ICC time
Round 2  Thursday  March 15, 1:30 PM
Round 3  Friday    March 16, 4:30 PM
Round 4  Sunday    March 18, 1:30 PM

Chessclub.com members are welcome to "observe" the games and
"whisper" comments with the other spectators. finger US-China
on Chessclub.com will give you specific information about the game
numbers to observe and the current standings.  The games will also
be listed in the Event List in Blitzin, where you can click on the
icon to watch while they are in progress.

The games will be stored in "liblist US-China".  Check out
help Cool-Libs for a listing of all the libraries of top
tournaments, matches and players.  As always, you can get live help
on Chessclub.com in the help channel: "tell 1 I want to know ...".

The match is sponsored by the Seattle Chess Foundation.  The
official web site of the event is:
http://www.seattlechessfoundation.com/SCF.html

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