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World Championship Special!

Are you ready for the Battle of Bonn? We're only days away from the eagerly anticipated $2m Anand-Kramnik match - and ICC Chess.FM will have unrivaled coverage throughout, with new prize competitions and guest commentators for this showdown.

The full schedule for our coverage is as below. Please note that due to Daylight Saving Time ending on different dates in Europe and in the USA, Games 1-8 will start at 09:00am ET (3:00pm local CET), with Games 9-12 starting at 10:00am ET (3:00pm local CET).

Game 1: Tuesday, October 14
Game 2: Wednesday, October 15
Game 3: Friday, October 17
Game 4: Saturday, October 18
Game 5: Monday, October 20
Game 6: Tuesday, October 21
Game 7: Thursday, October 23
Game 8: Friday, October 24
Game 9: Sunday, October 26
Game 10: Monday, October 27
Game 11: Wednesday, October 29
Game 12: Friday, October 31
Tiebreak (if needed): Sunday, November 2

Joining host Mig Greengard for our live coverage each day will be some of his regular GM sidekicks such as Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Nick de Firmian and Ronen Har-Zvi, not to mention some top-flight surprise guest commentators such as Jan Gustafsson, Jonathan Rowson, Jon Speelman and Peter Svidler! Also in Bonn reporting for Chess.FM will be American Chess Journalist of the Year, Macauley Peterson, who will be giving us his unique video spin of all the action.

During our live broadcast each day, ICC members will get the chance to take part in three exciting competitions to win major chess prizes!

- There's the ever-popular New In Chess Trivia contest, where each day you could win ICC membership extensions and the top prize of a one year subscription to the best chess magazine in the world, New In Chess!

- Game of the Day will also now include a daily trivia contest sponsored by The House of Staunton, where each day an ICC member will win the Reykjavik chess set, an exact reproduction of one of the most famous sets ever produced, the set used for the legendary Fischer-Spassky 1972 World Championship Match.

- And also there will be the Everyman Chess World Championship Call-In, where ICC members can leave their questions on Skype, with the best ones aired during the show, and each day a signed copy of the latest book in Garry Kasparov's series on Modern Chess, Kasparov-Karpov 1975-1985, going to the best question!

And to get you in the mood below, we have a special two-part Anand-Kramnik preview video by GM Ronen Har-Zvi, including audio and film content and editing by Macauley Peterson. So get ready for the Battle of Bonn right here right now by following all the action at ICC Chess.FM - sign up for your free trial membership today

Video -- World Championship Preview -- Click to Play

Regular ICC Events

ICC Newsletter LX

October 10, 2008

In this issue: World Championship Special!, A Corus of Approval!, 2008 Book of the Year Award, Chess.FM videos, and the ICC Store.

All events are free to ICC members unless noted. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Add 5 hours for GMT. Add 6 hours for CET.

Monday, October 13
	00:45	Tournament Sleepless - 3 tourneys - 5 rounds of 3 0
	07:00	Tournament Early Morning - 7 rounds of 3 1
	10:00	Tournament ICC Store - Flash 8 rounds of 1 0
	11:30	Tournament Chess21 Series - 5 rounds of 5 0
	13:00	Tournament Chess21 Series - 5 rounds of 5 0
	14:15	Tournament Daily Standard - 4 rounds of 20 5
	15:00	Webcast GM Ronen Har-Zvi
	18:00	Simul IM Jon Schroer - 55 20 - ch 3
	19:00	Play The Master Blitz against a title FIDE player
	21:00	Tournament Bullet - 9 rounds of 1 0
	23:00	Tournament Nightly O1500 - 5 rounds of 5 0
	23:00	Tournament Nightly U1500 - 5 rounds of 2 6

View this week's entire event list

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