WCL Newsletter Vol. II - issue XIV  Friday, April 4, 2008
	In this Issue: US CoC : on WCL too ! Titled players challenge you !  Dos Hermanas - US CoC 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 probably the toughest Time  Control for the Masters. So, in most on cases, we go for a  1 0 vs 2 1. Still one more minute for the player!     Let's see the results of the week: Tursday, March 27th | 10:00 EDT WGM Anna Zatonskih 19wins in a row with a time control 1 1 vs 2 1. Below, the funny position she reached to mate her opponent. She should have  got 5 bishops but she blundered a passed pawn.  Thursday March 27th | 15:00 EDT  GM Alex Finkel perfect score too with 15 wins. Friday, March 28th| 15:00 EDT GM Viktor Gavrikov played a Master Challenge, 16 wins and 1 loss to MaryDawson. Saturday, March 29th | 15:00 EDT FM Dragan Drasko  played 15 games, won 11 and lost to Teme2000 ArnoldMuscat TGrun and EduardoAbramson. Monday, March 31st | 15:00 EDT GM Yuri Solodovnichenko played Time-Odds MasterChallenge. In Time-Odds, the Master plays 1+1 and his opponent from 1+1 to 1+4 according to his rating. 16 wins, clear sheet! Monday, March 31st | 19:00 EDT IM Goran Vojinovic (back after some health trouble) didn' lose any of the 16 games he played but teme2000 drew twice. Wednesday, April 2nd | 15:00 EDT GM Vitali Golod  strikes again! following the Aprils'Fool Piece-Odds he gave the day before, he went for a time-Odds MasterChallenge and then crushed his 18 opponents. Monday, April 2nd | 19:00 EDT GM Yuri Solodovnicheko 17 out of 19, 1 loss to ELU and 1 raw to Brock Piece-Odds Sunday, March 30th | 19:00 EDT GM Vitali Golod was playing his  Piece-Odds on . 13 wins and 3 losses to VAIBHAVBHAT and Lena. Tuesday, April 1st | 19:00 EDT  GM Vitali Golod was there again for an Aprils Fool Piece-Odds! Instead of an usual piece-odds, Vitali was surprised to see all the comers playing with a pawn up in the fist 15 minutes, whatevever was their ratings, then a knight up, a bishop up and foe the last 15 min, a rook up to any body !  But this expert in piece-odds gave his best and won 17 out of 19 games, losing only to Lena and DGajovic.  Of course, only members can play, so become a member! 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. FM Michael Baron vs GM Yuri Solodovinchenko 1/2-1/2 GM Boris Gulko vs GM Dejan Antic. Two great GM for that weekly battle that ended by the win of GM Boris Gulko. Congrats to both players. And thank you to the 30+ people who watched the event and the review! When 2 GM analyse their game, it may give some headache to the audience. But that is always instructional. They see the chessboard and the position of the pieces differently and with a dynamic perception which lack to most of us. These games have been recorded with the player's comments and can be rebroadcasted on demand. You can also do /finger Banterchess to review the games without the comments.  TGIF This Friday evening, (March 28), Yuri Solodovnichenko was facing IM Branimir Maksimovic! The GM was in great shape and overplayed Branimir  who is worth more tahn the score could let  think. IM Branimir Maksimovic vs GM Yuri Solodovnichenko. Twelve games were played and Yuri scored 11/12. Do you want to see this games ? type /search branimir Solodovnichenko and you will get the list of all the games played between this titled players on.    Don't miss this weekly battle! Be there next friday at 20:00 EDT!  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.   IM Martha Fierro, played her saturday night fever Simul aganst 8 players. She won 7 out on 8 and vs Brechstange. She reviewed the game played vs Yousers!   GM Ronen Har-Zvi, played a Simul against 6 players and won the 6! As a coincidence he chosed to the review a game of Yousers who had already been chosen by Martha for her analysis.  is the only site where Simul are followed by an analysis and comments between the simul giver and  the  audience. Thanks to all the players, Members and Masters, and Congratulations to the Winners. Rules and descriptions of all Titled Events can be found here Events Scheduled This Week (Saturday April 5th, April 13th)  Saturday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST MasterChallenge FM Dragan Drasko IM Martha Fierro  Sunday  14:00 EST MasterChallenge  18:00 EST Battle of the Week GM Viktor Gavrikov GM Boris Gulko vs GM Ronen Har-Zvi  Monday  15:00 EST Time-Odds  19:00 EST MasterChallenge IM Sasha Belezky IM Branimir Maksimovic  Tuesday  15:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds  19:00 EST Simul+Analysis GM Vitali Golod GM Ronen Har-Zvi  Wednesday  15:00 EST Time-Odds  19:00 EST MasterChallenge IM Gergely Szabo IM Miodrag Perunovic  Thursday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST BanterChess GM Viktor Gavrikov GM Boris Gulko vs GM Dejan Antic  Friday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds  20:00 EST TGIF IM Branimir Maksimovic IM Miodrag Perunovic FM Dragan Drasko vs IM Goran Vojinovic  Saturday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST Simul + Analysis GM Viktor MiKhalevski IM Martha Fierro  Sunday  14:00 EST Piece-Odds  18:00 EST Battle of the Week GM Alex Finkel GM Yuri Solovnichenko vs GM Victor Mikhalevski   Live on World Chess Live US State Champion of Champions Qualifiers will be held on on April 12th, 2008 and the Semi-Finals and Finals on April 18th and 19th. Plan to be there and play that Event !  This is a blitz tournament in 5 1 Time control. Full details and rules can be found at  US States Champion of Champions   IMPORTANT: World Chess Live (WCL) uses the interface called Dasher. Blitzin WILL NOT WORK so one MUST download Dasher 1.2.2 for World Chess Live. **BLITZIN, OR DASHER, FOR ICC WILL NOT WORK** Download Dasher for  and click on "Download Software", left column. Amber Tournament is over - Click the image below to go on official website and see the videos Twelve of the world's top grandmasters from ten different countries are taking part in this hotly-contested annual contest. On offer is a 216,000 Euro ($337,000) total prize-fund. The event is organized by the Association Max Euwe and generously sponsored by Mr and Mrs Van Oosterom from Monaco. With eight players from the world's top ten (including the top four) and an average rating of 2752, the line-up is even stronger than the super-tournaments in Wijk aan Zee and Morelia- Linares. These are the twelve participants: Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Morozevich, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Peter Leko, Vasily Ivanchuk, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin and Loek van Wely. And each day here at , we will be relaying all the games live and also have our popular Game of the Day videos by GMs Larry Christiansen and Joel Benjamin.    XIX Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" For the ninth year running the XIX Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" (Spain) is being held on the ICC playing zone (www.chessclub.com). Registration for the event is completely free both for ICC members and non-members! This event is clearly the most important Internet chess tournament in the world, featuring the biggest number of participants. In the 2007 edition, nearly 2000 players from all over the world took part. The winner, former child prodigy and under-10 World Champion IM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun, overcome an impressive field of 300 IM/GM’s, including top players Shahriyar Mamedyarov, Tigran L. Petrosian, Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Kiril Georgiev and Sergey Shipov. This year the prize fund will be 7,700 Euro (roughly $12,000), with 2,000 Euro (roughly $3,400) for the winner. In addition, there are many class prizes and special cash prizes for amateur players. Also, winners can achieve the opportunity to travel to Dos Hermanas for the main Event, with Topalov, Shirov, Polgar and Vallejo, at the end of April. As in previous editions, the playing system is as follows: twelve 12-round Swiss qualifiers using the playing rate: 3 minutes per game. Qualifiers are held twice a day from March 28th to April 2nd, and the finals are held on April 4th and 5th. The 12 qualifier winners plus the 20 best scores qualify to the 32 KO final. Full rules, guidelines and registrations can be found at our special Dos Hermanas website  Take a seat, join and enjoy !

Need help about the Tournaments ? do "tell tournamentbot help" and you'll get a lots of topics you can have help on : byes, dr-pts, duration, finger, games, grid, history, join, latejoin, leave, and many others, then for example do "tell tournament finger" to have your personal info. Enjoy Playing Tournaments on

USCF-QR Tournament :  March 9: 1st playwaycool, 2nd coolbreis, 3rd Moonlightwizard "tell tournamentbot grid 4685" for the detailed grid - 17 players March 16: 1st instinct, 2nd muaddib, 3rd Shadowthecat "tell tournamentbot grid 4808" for the detailed grid - 21 players March 23: The official tournament could be hold due to security reason, so the manager ran a similar one for the 20 players present. 's weekly prize Tournaments Prize Tournaments came to too & with them 's Tournament Hall of Fame Started! Friday Night Blitz is our weekly Prize Tournament, which runs every Friday at 9 pm EST. "finger FNB" for information on the Prizes. Winners for the Friday Night Blitz: February 1 : 1st Predestinedpawn; 2nd Olli1516; Random Draw winner: Shunkleash February 8 : 1st moonlightwizard; 2nd HubDiggs; Random Draw winner: Leedouglas February 22 : 1st robertbancod; 2nd buzz; Random Draw winner march20 (8th place) February 29 : 1st knightenight; 2nd VAIBHAVBHAT; Random Draw Kratz (13th place) March 7 : 1st XPShadow; 2nd Playwaycool ; Random Draw geronimo-usa (21st place) March 14: 1st VAIBHAVBHAT; 2nd BJHSKnights; Random Draw RdgMx March  21:  1st  RdgMx;  2nd VAIBHAVBHAT; Random Draw GeorgeAnderson3 (5th place) March 28: 1st ShadowTheCat; 2nd Croder; Random Draw bullbuffalo (5th place) Winners for the Monthly Random Draw Tournament : February, 2008 : Best VAIBHAVBHAT; most coolbreis; Random Draw winner: RD1  NigelSharp (#12) ; RD2 GirishE (#68) One week for each winner ! March, 2008 : Best VAIBHAVBHAT; most captainkid; Random Draw winner: RD1  buberbomber (#26) ; RD2 grosspatzer09 (#69) One week for each winner ! Winners for the Monthly Chessaholic's Trophy: February 2008 : 1st leonardoalmeida; 2nd RobertBancod; Random Draw mohamoha (#32) Mars 2008 : 1st RdgMx; 2nd leonardoalmeida; most croder Two weeks for the winner of that Trophy and one week for the others awarded You can find 's full Tournament schedule in our Events Window menu and "finger Prize-Tourneys" to have the complete list of the awarded tourneys.. Congratulations!

Highlights

Predict a Move - An Event with PRIZES ! Started  January 1st, PAM (Predict-a-Move) is rolling. Every day at 13:00 EDT, 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 gives 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. PRIZES : Each month the best player will be awarded with a 3 weeks membership extension and the player who has played the most during the month (with a minimun score of 3000 points for the whole month) will get 1 week membership extension! the winner of the best can't be, the same month, also winner of the most and can't be awarded for the best score, twice in a row but he can play for the most then. Here come the names of the top 3 in the PAM played from Thursday, March 27 th to Wednesday, April 2nd:  Thursday  1. timm 3700 pts  2. Alstone52 3675 pts  3. DejanKostic 3500 pts  Friday  1. timm 5000 pts  2. Alstone52 4475 pts  3. Andykohalmy 4350 pts  Saturday  1. Robertbancod 3700 pts  2. Alstone52 3575 pts  3. timm 3250 pts  Sunday  1. AdvisorLee 2275 pts  2. timm 2225 pts  3. Alstone52 2175 pts  Monday  1. Alstone52 5050 pts  2. Janos07 4575 pts  3. ZoranMilenkovic 4375 pts  Tuesday  1. timm 4125 pts  2. Alstone52 3900 pts  3. teve15 3800 pts  Wednesday  1. Alstone52 4000 pts  2. Robertbancod 3825 pts  3. teve15 3750 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 at the very beginning!   Dasher - Hints and tips  Tournament : Find, Join or Watch is holding everyday many tournaments(lots of them are awarded!), scheduled or on-demand (ask in channel 221 when you want to play a specific tournament, one of our manager will be pleased to set it up). To see if there is already some tournament running or open to registration, click on >Windows >Acitivities and select the tournament tab :  Here you can see that 4 tournaments are actually in progress. But only the first one, named "Two losses and say Goodbye" is available for joining. You can see that the three others are locked and there is no  to click on and join. From the above, you know for example that the Tournament named "Valley Of The Kings" is in its 3rd round of 5 (3/5), it is a blitz rated (br) with a time control of 3 0 played with the Swiss Style (SW) pairing method. Clicking on the will give you the actual standings, the games in progress, the list of players and more details on tournaments in general. Littleper (channel 225) hosts this tournament.    Make sure you have a version 1.2.2 or above. Click on the Help in menu bar and select About Dasher. It will display your actual version and if it does show you the 1.2.2 you have to download here. Lucky you!  You just downloaded the latest Dasher and, Included in this version, a link to the multi-title winning JUNIOR engine that you can buy much cheaper than anywhere else and integrate in Dasher to examine, analyze your games and, use as a tool to help improve your game!     We are here to help you and let you have fun playing chess!    : The Community  We need you ! As already said above, 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 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: Games of the day / Videos : they are available for members only (so join us !) with your handle and password.  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 , the events refers to the Server Time EDT (New-York time), that is GMT-4 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. (European Time will change this week-end!)  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 . 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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