WCL Newsletter Vol. II - issue V Friday, February 1st, 2008
	In this Issue: WCL rules the waves Titled players challenge you ! Live on WCL Prizes Tournament & QR Highlights WCL : The Community Past issues

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Titled players challenge you ! If you want to see your name in the NewsLetter, it is VERY easy : just play the Events and win! Played this week Some results of the week   Keep an on the scheduled Events, connect in time, then, jump in!  On Dasher, click in menu bar - Window - Activities then select the Events tab. That is where you find most of the info about... guess what... EVENTS ! Under (To)day Events, you find scheduled events, MasterChallenge, Simul, etc. But also the live games that are broadcasted. Under them are the "tomorrow events" as far there is no last minute change. But above the Today Events, there is a line name "scheduled events with titled players this week" and it opens a webpage.  vs is becoming the usual time control for Master Challenge but, for people over 2000, the time control is 1 0 1 0.   So, for players who have a provisional rating in bullet, MasterChallenge will take in consideration their rating average in other sections. Masters have more fun to play that way and chances for players to win are greater so... everybody is happy !  Let's see the results of the week: Thursday, january 24th | 15:00 EST  GM Daniel Fridman played 20 games 2 0 1 0, 19 wins and 1 loss to chessdown Thursday, january 24th | 19:00 EST  IM Miodrag Perunovic played 16 games 2 0 1 0. "The Butcher" was there with his best knife so... 16 wins! Friday january 25th | 19:00 EST  GM Vitali Golod played 23 games, BRock drew once and congrats to XPshadow or his win Saturday january 26th | 15:00 EST  GM Viktor Gavrikov played a time-odds MasterChallenge. The limits and time control were 1 1 vs 2 3 for under 1390, 1 1 vs 2 1 for under 1975 and 1 1 vs 1 1 for higher rated players. Amazingly, MaryDawson belongs to the list of the 3 winners, together with XPshadow and DuanWilliams. GM Viktor Gavrikov scored 15/18. You can find below a short biography of this strong GM. Sunday, january 27th | 14:00 EST  GM Alex Finkel was one of the victims of MaryDawson who shot twice, congrats too to Rajnadar and RobertBancod. Alex scored 13/17. Monday, january 28th | 19:00 EST  GM Daniel Fridman played a Time-Odds MasterChallenge and guess what "she" didn't win... ok, ok, MaryDawson drew anyway... same for Playwaycool but the winners of that MC are JordanSBerson and Lena. 18 out ouf 22 for GM Daniel Fridman. Tuesday, january 29th | 15:00 EST  GM Vitali Golod made a perfect score, winning 15 out of 15 games in his Pieces-Odds MasterChallenge.  Many players joined the line, and we expect you to be more and more in the next wild MasterChallenge. Have fun on the board! Of course, only members can play, so become a member!  In Pieces odds, the master will suffer the handicap of a piece determined by your blitz rating despite the rating displayed is your wild rating. The time control is 2 0 2 0. The limits can be adjusted and are not always the same, even for the same Master. For example:  U1200 Queen down  U1400 Rook on a file missing  U1650 Bishop on c file missing  U1850 kNight on b file missing  U2200 f pawn missing  Above?... well... show us you deserve your rating ;-) Tuesday, January 29th | 16:00 EST  GM Arthur Kogan was celebrating his birthday and got some trouble to deal with the 128 squares of his boards and his two mice, so he lost 6 games out of 21 before going back to his party. Congrats to the winners TGRUN, pegaman, Trex, Lena, Alstone52 and kte5. Thanks to all the players, Members and Masters, and Congratulations to the Winners. Rules and descriptions of all Titled Events can be found here Banter played this week:  During the 25 5 game, the two Masters whisper their thoughts and their plans. Of course, they can't read what their opponent is planning. Always interesting to try to understand how a Master thinks!  When the game finishes, the players review the game together, exploring other lines and analyzing their mistakes. IM Mio Perunovic vs IM Goran Vojinovic ½ - ½ GM Boris Gulko vs GM Ronen Har-Zvi ½ - ½ IM DStamenkovic vs IM MioPerunovic 1 - 0 These games have been recorded with the player's comments and can be rebroadcasted on demand.  TGIF This Friday evening, (jan. 25), we had an other great match! GM Michael Roiz vs GM Yuri Solodovnichenko. The both GM faced in series of 3 0 bullet. The score is 10 - 3 in favor of the Israeli GM whose reputation of bullet player is great. Once again, we enjoyed a full hour of exciting chess! Be sure GM Yuri Solodovnichenko will take his revenge in a near future. Thanks to the players for that event regarded as a one of the most popular show between titled players on WCL.  Simul Results  Don't miss the registration! To make sure you'll be warned of the beginning of the registration for the simul, just do "tell simulbot alarm". Beware, that is a toggle command, so, if you send the command twice, that will switch the alarm off. Saturday, january 26th | 20:00 EST   IM Martha Fierro played as usual a Simul on Saturday evening at 20:00 EST. A not to be missed rendez-vous.  Twelve players joined in and she made a full score, so 12 wins. Her audio analysis of the game she played against DuanWilliams was interesting and instructive (read the note below about broadcastbot).  For a preview of a game previously analysed! Click here: Wednesday, january 30th | 19:00 EST   GM Alex Finkel played a small against 5 lucky players. Well, lucky because they played a GM but no winner... Important Note To Follow the Audio: the voice of the Master is relayed by an encoder which occurs some lag, so, if you "follow MarthaFierro" you get the commentaries with about 15-20 sec delay. That is why you must "follow broadcastbot". That bot copies all the moves from the master's board with 20 sec delay, so you can follow the analysis with the commentaries matching the moves. The link to activate audio is in Event windows.   Lecture January 25th | 15:00 EST   WGM Anna Zatonskih gave an interesting and educational lecture on WCL.  She chosed to highlight 2 games played in Corus Group-B and, specially, the endgames.  The games were GM Hou vs GM Bacrot and GM Krasenkov vs GM Bacrot  During this full hour, members can chat with the Master, ask questions and give their spin on the games, suggesting some sidelines or variations. A real contact between the players and the Master!  Those live lectures should be available soon in Audio. Tuesday, January 29th | 19:00 EST  GM Ronen Har-Zvi who usually plays a popular Simul went into a Master Challenge and showed his talent in bullet games 1 0 2 0 ! playinng 28 games in one hour, losing only one to BRock. Wednesday, January 30th | 16:00 EST  GM Michael Roiz also known to be hyperspeed player played 26 games, drawing vs TRex and losing vs BRock. Site Pro : GM Viktor Gavrikov    GM Viktor Gavrikov is mostly playing MasterChallenge or Time-Odds MasterChallenge on WCL.  He was born in Lithuania, in 1957, and actually lives in Germany. He earned his GM title in 1984 and you can consult his FIDE card here. He reached his highest rating in 1997, with a peak at 2605.  He likes to play positional games and covered the part about Keres Attack in the book "The experts versus the sicilian".  Some results : 1-3 place, Soviet Championship 1985, 4-5 place, Interzonal Tournament in Tunis 1985 , World Vice-Champion in rapid chess behind Karpov, Mazatlan Mexico 1988. And winner of following tournaments :West Berlin 1989, Biel 1990, Geneve 1991, Oviedo rapid 1992, Biel 1994, Swiss Championship 1996, Upplands Vasby 2000, Göteborg 2001.  He is also known for being a teacher and a good trainer (Honoured Trainer of Georgia). He coached Nana Alexandria (1980-1986) to her World Vice-Championship in classic chess.  So, don't miss his next event : MasterChallenge Sunday, February 3rd at 14:00 EST Events Scheduled This Week (Saturday Feb. 2, Feb. 10)  Saturday  09:00 EST MC Time-Odds  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  20:00 EST Simul + Audio  GM Michael Roiz  IM Branimir Maksimovic  IM Martha Fierro  Sunday  09:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds  14:00 EST MasterChallenge  20:00 EST  IM Vlado Jakovljevic  GM Viktor Gavrikov USCF QR Tournament  Monday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST MasterChallenge  WGM Anna Zatonskih  GM Yuri Solodovnichenko  Tuesday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST Simul+An.  GM Vitali Golod  GM Ronen Har-Zvi  Wednesday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST DoubleTrouble  GM Daniel Fridman  GM Larry Christiansen  Thursday  10:00 EST MasterChallenge  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST BanterChess  IM Gergely Szabo  GM Viktor Gavrikov   TBA vs  TBA  Friday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds  20:00 EST TGIF  IM Dragan Stamenkovic  GM Larry Christiansen  FM Dragan Drasko vs  IM Dragan Stamenkovic  Saturday  09:00 EST MasterChallenge  15:00 EST DoubleTrouble  20:00 EST Simul + Audio  IM Goran Vojinovic  GM Alex Finkel  IM Martha Fierro  Sunday  14:00 EST MasterChallenge  20:00 EST Battle of the Week  FM Dragan Drasko  GM Ronen Har-Zvi vs  GM Dejan Antic   Live on World Chess Live - Corus    This year, the Group A was composed of 14 of the world's best chess players who battled in a round-robin tournament. Were on the stage: Viswanathan Anand (IND), Vladimir Kramnik (RUS), Veselin Topalov (BUL), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE), Peter Leko (HUN), Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), Levon Aronian (ARM), Boris Gelfand (ISR), Teimour Radjabov (AZE), Magnus Carlsen (NOR), Michael Adams (ENG), Judit Polgar (HUN), Pavel Eljanov (UKR), Loek Van Wely (NED). Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen are the joint winners of the 70th Corus Chess Tournament Grandmaster in that group with a score of 8/13. Movsesian won in Group B and Caruana in Group C, in which IM Irina Krush, well known on WCL took the 5th place. Oldies but goldies, in the Honorary Group, L.Ljubojevic finished 1st, followed by V.Kortchnoi and J.Timman at 2nd place then L.Portisch You can visit the website.  That was a great show broadcasted by WCL relay team for WCL members! By courtesy of Carla. On the stage, (but not playing) was also our neck-Admin Carla who took lots of pics you can see on her web site. An amazing series of portraits of the best players battling for the title in Group A, Group B, Group C and also Honorary Group. (please respect the copyright and don't use these pictures without her authorization or she won't adore you!) GIBRALTAR MASTER 2008  Right after the sunny beaches of Wijk aan Zee, the eyes of Chess players went south to Gibraltar and his famous monkeys.  The 6th edition of Gibraltar's Gibtelecom Chess Festival took place from 22-31 January 2008 in Gibraltar.  Everyday on WCL, you have seen the games played there by GrandMasters such as Bologan, Nakamura, Wang, Stefanova, Petrosian, Akobian... and many others. Do "history Gibraltar08" to review and examine the games by yourself.

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Events with Prize by IM Goran Vojinovic  During February and March 2008, IM Goran Vojinovic will offer a weekly MasterChallenge in the early afternoon, (european time). Among the players who will play him, the best winner will be awarded by a free lesson given by IM Goran Vojinovic.  The Serbian International Master is actually rated 2474 and could beat his previous peak (2482) very soon.  He belongs to those who believe in WCL and wants to help the site to develop in Europ.  The dates are not yet determined, so keep an eye on WCL events and don't give away the chance to get free lesson from a great teacher! Rules : the games will be played in 2 0 2 0 time control. In case of several losses, the best winner will be determined this way 1st tiebreak: The player who won the most games in that MasterChallenge. 2nd tiebreak: The player with the lowest rating. Predict a Move Started since January 1st, PAM (Predict-a-Move) is rolling. Every day at 13:00 EST, you can join the line just type "tell PAM-bot join". The rule is simple. A game played by 2 masters is chosen in a database and the members have to guess what is the move that has been played by white as well as black. Any guess within the 30 first seconds give you 25 points. The right guess gives 75 points, so, the right guess found in less than 30 seconds means 100 points. Of course, it is not allowed to search the game in a database in order to guess(?) the move. We hope you understand that cheating is just detrimental. You can join, leave and come back without losing your points. Here come the names of the top 3 in the PAM played from Thursday, January 24th to Wednesday, January 30th:  Thursday  1. ChessLover2 5075 pts  2. Alstone52 4475 pts  3. Janos07 4400 pts  Friday  1. TGRUN 3475 pts  2. Nixen 3450 pts  3. BostjanBenko 3200 pts  Saturday  1. YoNoSe 4875 pts  2. BostjanBenko 4225 pts  3. RobertBancod 4100 pts  Sunday  1. Alstone52 3050 pts  2. timm 2850 pts  3. nixen 2600 pts  Monday  1. timm 4225 pts  2. BostjanBenko 3925 pts  3. Zoraidax 3625 pts  Tuesday  1. nixen 4000 pts  2. YoNoSe 3975 pts  3. Alstone52 3675 pts  Wednesday  1. timm 3200 pts  2. EduardoAbramson 2900 pts  3. Janos07 2875 pts  Each day, around 20 persons join this events and kibitz their thoughts via PAM-bot. So Join us and have fun!  In case of tiebreak, the system is very simple, it is the registration order which decides, so, be there a the very beginning!   WCL : The Community  We need you ! As already said above, WCL is growing ! We need Helpers, we need more Tournament managers, so if you like chess and if you enjoy to help people to play chess and give them fun in playing in the best conditions, apply for Helper and/or for Tournament Manager. Go in Event Tab of the Activities Window and, at the bottom, you'll find the forms to fill. Don't forget that thing : if you are friendly with people, people will be friendly with you (well... almost !) You can also click on "I want to become a Helper" or on "I want to be a Tournament Manager"  Feel free to share your opinion and your wishes. We want to know what kind of event you like, in tourneys, in event vs titled players. We also need to know what is the best hour for you (of course, regarding where you live in the world) and how much time you can spend on WCL for an event. You can find the list of scheduled events, tourneys and broadcast of the coming week in the event window .   Well, we need to know who you are and where you are from in order to schedule the right events at the right time. Questions and some answers: Wild : Atomic chess will is back with the release 1.2.0 of Dasher actually under testing. Coming with it an other wild is back : the Two Kings. To know more about the rules of those two popular wild, type "help wild". Ask your Tournament Manager in channel 221 to set up Atomic or any other wild tourney! Tournament with Prizes : WCL is holding prizes tournaments. Some of them are announced in the newsletter but not all. So the better way to check when they are is to connect on the site and, in events Window (windows-activities-events) and click on the list of the scheduled tournament which is updated. Problembot : is actually unavailable. Hope it will be fixed soon. Meanwhile, you can practice with Traininbot. Mr Spock : And he didn't speak for a while. I agree it's annoying but the problem has been reported and should be soon fixed. Guests : You have dowloaded Dasher and you can actually plays vs the computer when you are not connected but, if you want to play on line, you must be a member. Log in as a guest just allows you to ask questions. In case of problem to validate your membership, password lost, please contact . Games of the day / Videos : they are available for members only (so join us !) with your WCL and password handle. Mac / Linux :I adore the dasher program but I can't downloaded with my Mac OS X 10.5.1 and sadly I only play with it in my laptop. There is an alternative interface to Dasher for people who chosed Mac or Linux, its called Sonia. Time Control : Set up a game with time control like 40 moves in 60 minutes + extra time like on an OTB is possible when the game is in tourney mode, so you may need a Admin Tournament Manager to do it. What time is it ? : On WCL, the events refers to the Server Time EST (New-York time), that is GMT-5 or PST+3. To check the Server Time (and see if your didn't forget to have lunch) you can type /Date in main tab and see the server time.  Two important addresses : If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, feel free to contact us. We will give you a personal answer or publish it in this part if many of you are concerned by a topic. We collect also infos regarding members of WCL. If you have played a tourney OTB, if your club organizes an event or anything else, we can mention it. Some of you may have questions relatives to login, lost password, membership then contact support. We answer as soon we receive your mail.

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