WCL Newsletter Vol. II - issue XV  Friday, April 11, 2008
	In this Issue: April 2008 is USCF month! Titled players challenge you ! Live on WorldChessLive  Tourneys: Join & Win Prizes Highlights WCL : The Community Past issues

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Titled players challenge you ! MasterChallenge(*)(C)(TD): >Congratulations Player for defeating GM Vladimir Too-Strong in the MasterChallenge event. Congratulations Player for this incredible accomplishment :) 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 Tournaments and EVENTS! Under (To)day Events, you find scheduled events, MasterChallenge, Simul, etc. But also the live games that are broadcasted. following, there is "tomorrow events" as far there is no last minute change.  vs is probably the toughest Time  Control for the Masters. So, in most on cases, we go for a  1 1 vs 2 1. Still one more minute for the player!     Let's see the results of the week: Tursday, April 3 | 15:00 EDT WGM Anna Zatonskih played 17 games, 14 wins 1 draw to DjupB and 2 losses to YoNoSe and franco.  Friday April 4 | 15:00 EDT IM Branimir Maksimovic 16 wins and 1 draw+1 loss to Lena. Saturday, April 5 | 15:00 EDT IM Dragan Stamenkovic  played 16 games, won 15 and lost to Rudvan. Sunday, April 6 | 14:00 EDT GM Viktor Gavrikov  played 15 games, won 15 perfect score ! Monday, April 7 | 15:00 EDT IM Sasha Belezky 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, 2 lossesw to MaryDawson and AdvisorLee, 1 draw to CofC-Arizona. Monday, April 7 | 19:00 EDT IM Branimir Maksimovic  19 wins and 1 loss to Alstone52. Tuesday, April 8 | 19:00 EDT GM Ronen-Har-Zvi  played 22 games, just lost to Lena an BRock. Wednesday, April 9 | 15:00 EDT IM Gergely Szabo  16 wins, Goran drew ono and win one! Wednesday, April 9 | 19:00 EDT IM Miodrag Perunovic played 20 games and drew to BRock and DGajovic but lost twice to Predestinedpawn! Piece-Odds Friday, April 4 | 19:00 EDT GM Larry Christiansen probably didn't notice that some pieces were missing on his board and simply won 19 games in a row. Tuesday, April 1st | 19:00 EDT  GM Vitali Golod was there again for his favorite event : Piece-Odds! He justlost his first game to MaryDawson., then started a 16 wins series  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. IM Goran Vojinovic vs IM Branimir Maksimovic  a full hour hour of entertainment which ended in a draw before the usual review of game. GM Boris Gulko vs GM Ronen Har-Zvi. Two great GM for that weekly battle that ended, like their previous meetings in a draw. GM Ronen Har-Zvi (2008 finalist of Dos Hermanas internet tournament) is eager of a 3rd match, so keep an eye on the schedule and don't miss that coming game. Congrats to both players. And thank you to the 30+ people who watched the event and the review! 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. WCL 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 12th, April 20th)  Saturday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST MasterChallenge GM Viktor MiKhalevski IM Martha Fierro  Sunday  14:00 EST MasterChallenge  18:00 EST Battle of the Week GM Alex Finkel GM Yuri Solovnichenko vs GM Victor Mikhalevski  Monday  15:00 EST Time-Odds  19:00 EST MasterChallenge WGM Anna Zatonskih 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 GM Daniel Fridman  GM Yuri Solodovnichenko  Thursday  15:00 EST BanterChess  19:00 EST MasterChallenge GM Victor Mikhalevski vs GM Viktor Gavrikov GM Dejan Antic  Friday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds  20:00 EST TGIF GM Larry Christiansen IM Dragan Stamenkovic IM Gergely Szabo vs IM Goran Vojinovic  Saturday  15:00 EST MasterChallenge  19:00 EST Simul + Analysis IM Miodrag Perunovic IM Martha Fierro  Sunday  14:00 EST Piece-Odds  18:00 EST Battle of the Week IM Goran Vojinovic FM Dragan Drasko vs IM Branimir Maksimovic   Live on World Chess Live US State Champion of Champions April is USCF Month on WCL, and we're ready to host the U.S. State  ‘Champion of Champions’ event that will see the winner going forward to play in the 2008 Frank K. Berry  U.S. Chess Championship, May 13-21 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  This unique invitational, organized jointly by WCL and USCF, will see all state champions from as far as Alaska through California to Hawaii, and from Maine through New York to Florida coming together in this innovative online event on April 12, with the top four going forward to contest the knockout finals 18-19 April. Why not join us and give support to your local state champion? Full details and rules can be found at  US States Champion of Champions 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 WCL and click on "Download Software", left column. As a special bonus to our members, we will provide the integrality of IM John Watson Talkshow with Bill Goichberg, president of USCF. For a 10 minutes preview of that show, click here   XIX Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" 2008 is over. The winner is : NECF-InSchools For the ninth year running the XIX Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" (Spain) was being held on the ICC playing zone (www.chessclub.com). As usual, registration for the event was completely free both for ICC members and non-members! NECF-InSchools is the handle of the famous Jorge Sammour-Hasbun who battled against an impressive field of titled players, including top players Shahriyar Mamedyarov, Tigran L. Petrosian, Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Kiril Georgiev, Sergey Shipov and this year's finalist our popular site Pro GM Ronen Har-Zvi (Indiana-Jones on ICC). More than 600 chess fans were in audience. Jorge Hasbun won the match 4-1.   This event is clearly the most important Internet chess tournament in the world, featuring the biggest number of participants. In the 2008 edition, the records have been broken with 5455 players participating in the 12 qualifiers. Not only that, but in qualifier 5, the all-time Dos Hermanas attendance record was smashed with 583 players (553, in 2004).   This year the prize fund was 7,700 € (roughly $12,000), with 2,000 € (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. The organizers are already working on 2009 Edition, preparing some improvements, novelties and... surprizes which give more entertainment to this original Event. Full results and commentaries can be found at the special Dos Hermanas website

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, April 3rd to Wednesday, April 9th:  Thursday  1. timm 3450 pts  2. robertbancod 3400 pts  3. Janos07 2900 pts  Friday  1. timm 4525 pts  2. Zoraidax 4375 pts  3. Janos07 4375 pts  Saturday  1. timm 2875 pts  2. robertbancod 2700 pts  3. ZoranMilenkovic 2475 pts  Sunday  1. Alstone52 2450 pts  2. robertbancod 2225 pts  3. Zebbile 2225 pts  Monday  1. Alstone52 3575 pts  2. timm 3175 pts  3. Zoraidax 3050 pts  Tuesday  1. bearski 3900 pts  2. robertbancod 3700 pts  3. MVella 3675 pts  Wednesday  1. timm  4925 pts  2. Alstone52 4600 pts  3. teve15 4450 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 WCL's managers are always ready to run Tournaments if you ask. The best way is to send your resquest in channel 221 : "> Hi, can you organize a 5 0 blitz"  and if others people are waiting a similar tournament, they can say "yes, if you open it, I'll join". The managers are here to answer your wills . Tournaments would work better and filll faster if you kept an eye on this channel. Otherwise, they will open, in order to give you  fun, some tourney without knowing if you are interesting in it so... Instead of waiting the tourney you would like to play: Just ask!! Check also 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. E2 E1 or SW stand for the styles. Ex is a tournament by elimination where x is the maximum of losses you can have before finishing (and losing) the tourney. E2 means you can lose one game but at the second loss you are done! Beware also, if you latejoin, each round missed counts as a loss. SW is for Swiss style where player with  similar scores play each other but max 1 time each.     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, 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: Games of the day / Videos : they are available for members only (so join us !) with your WCL 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 WCL, 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.   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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