ICC News Item #1527

NEWS 1527 (22-Jul-01)
Live Coverage of Biel Chess Festival starts July 23!

The Chessclub.com broadcast team will be showing games from the
Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland,  July 23 to August 3. The
event is a 6-player, double round robin with rest days on July 28
and August 1.  All rounds start at 8:30am ICC time.

The players are Gelfand, Svidler, Grischuk, Lautier, Korchnoi, and
Pelletier.

Chessclub.com members are welcome to "observe" the games and
"whisper" comments with the other spectators. finger Biel2001
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 Biel2001".  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 official web site for the event is:
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/

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