2008 Frank Berry US Chess Championship
 WCL
will be following closely the US Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, running 13-21
May. A number of WCL site pros will be in action, such as GM Boris Gulko, GM John Fedorowicz, IM Irina Krush (defending women's champion)
and IM Anna Zatonskih. Another
player to root for is, of course, IM
David Vigorito, winner of the US State CofC Qualifier held on WCL in
April. David represented Massasuchetts, and now this talented player and author
is battling with the top US players for, who knows...perhaps the US
title!
Results and full details can be found on the official site but you can also see the most important
games in "finger US08" on WCL.
Every
day, the games are relayed on the site at 15:30 server time. Announcements are
made in the main tab when the games start and you can do > Windows >
Activities - Event to see the list of the games being relayed, in progress or
over.
Be sure to be there and, if you don't want to miss the action, become
a member !
 Special USCF
 WCL
is pleased to sponsor USCF's
2008 Grand Prix
and 2008
Junior Grand Prix. We're providing prize funds of $20,000
and $7,500,
respectively, and will also running Online Grand Prix events
all
year. In addition, WCL is granting a six-month free membership
to each USCF member!
Thursday
at 20:00 EST : Grand
Prix
 The kickoff event for the 2008 Worldchesslive
Online Grand Prix began Thursday, April 24th at 8pm Server Time. This
inaugural event was FREE for all USCF members and a total of
20 points in USCF's 2008 WCL Grand Prix was awarded. Of course, Younger
members can also earn points and, in addition, all games in the Online
Grand Prix are USCF quick-rated.
Full details can be found at WCL-USCF
2008 Grand Prix
When you register for the first time, make sure your USCF number and
PIN have been updated, specially if you just renewed your USCF
membership. Otherwise just come and play!
Grand
Prix is hosted in channel 121 and run by USCFBOT in 3 2 u
blitz, 7 rounds no latejoin after rd 3, so don't be late!
From now, the Grand Prix is a paying event. 3
Crowns (3USD) is the small fee asked to jump in
the tournament, to
have the chance to earn Points AND Crowns. Go to Web > My account to
purchase them. Soon, they will allow you to buy and pay some
other stuff on WCL.
With 34 players joining this tournament, that Grand
Prix was again a
real success.Thanks people for joining us for this
event!
This week's winner are AlexL (IM)
and Juliano(FM) who got their ticket for the final May, 29.
"tell USCFBOT grid 5" for full results
Congratulations
to the winners ! Thanks to all who played or watch for making this
tournament a true success !
"tell USCFBOT grid
4" for full results and info.
We hope
to meet you next thursday and every week then for what is promising to
become one of the greatest regular events on WCL!
Sunday
at 19:00 server time: USCF
QR
Sunday May
11, 43
players
joined the tourney !!! There is no
entry fee for that tournament till end of June so, don't
miss the opportunity to test -and improve- your skill!
Blitz 5 0 Swiss Style unrated (on WCL). Held in channel 121 by USCFBOT
1st Juliano (FM) 7/7; 2nd Moonlightwizard 5.5/7; 3rd bulletchamp 5/7
Full results "tell USCFBOT grid 4"
So
get ready for May 18, 20:00 EST !
Of
course, all the precautions are taken to avoid any form of abuse. But keep
focus on your play, even if Speedtrap pays you a visit. That doesn't
mean you are suspect, but it behaves the same way with anybody.
At the
end of the tourneys, after the games are checked, the results are
transmitted to USCF who establishes the new ratings. Prizes
and points will be given as soon as possible. Just be patient. Thanks
;-)
You can find the result of the previous tourneys on this USCF page
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Titled players challenge you !
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MasterChallenge(*)(C)(TD):
>Congratulations
WCL-Member
for defeating GM Vladimir TooStrongsky 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:
Thursday May 8 |
15:00 EDT
 IM Gergely Szabo was
in front of his screen to play this MasterChallenge 1 1 vs 2 1. He just
did a perfect score of 17 wins. The IM was just back from Plovdid where
he performed well. Although he was in trouble in the second part of the
tournament.
Friday, May 9
|
15:00 EDT
 GM
Viktor Gavrikov
played also a perfect Master Challenge, winning 18 out of 18 games.
Saturday, May 10
|
15:00 EDT
 GM
Alex Finkel was there for some
bullets in the MasterChallenge 15 wins and 1 loss to Premsta
Monday, May 12
| 15:00 EDT
 IM Sasha Belezky played 22
gamesin Time-Odds and won all. The Time-Control goes from 1 1 vs 1 1 for the stronger opponents to 1 1 vs 1 4.
Monday, May 12
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19:00 EDT
IM Branimir Maksimovic played 20 games, and just lost one game to MrYas!
Wednesday, May 14 | 15:00 EDT
IM Goran Vojinovic for
a time-odds Master Challenge played
15 games. He lost to Briglia-Soulies and MaryDawson, and drew to BlunderAlert and EduardoAbramson. Goran declared he plays too slowly.
Wednesday, May 14| 19:00 EDT
IM Gergely Szabo
played 16 games, 1 draw to PeterGianatos et 1 loss to MaryDawson.
Piece-Odds
Friday, May 9
| 14:00 EDT
GM Larry Christiansen 16
wins and 1 loss to Houda.
Sunday, May 11
| 14:00 EDT
IM Gergely Szabo played his first Piece-Odds and, if we except an early loss to Goran, he demonstrated he was an expert in tha wild game.
Tuesday, May 13
| 15:00 EDT
IM Goran Vojinovic played another Piece- Odds and did a good score 16/18. He lost to novelus and arnoldmuscat.
Of
course, only members can play, so get your membership!
 TGIF
This Friday
evening, (April 19), was again the 2
battle !
GM Dejan Antic 3.5-9.5 GM Yuri Solodovnichenko .
Do you want to
see this games ? type /search DejanAntic Solodovnichenko and you will get the list of
all the games played between this titled players on WCL.
Don't miss this weekly battle! Be there next friday at 20:00
EDT!
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 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
'Simul, was played against 9 players. Martha won 7 and lost 2 to Anzer and ArjunPatel. As usual, the review of the game was very instructional
Here is a
screenshot of the game lost vs ArjunPatel2
that she reviewed.
GM Ronen Har-Zvi, played his Tuesday's Simul vs 10 players. He drew one vs AKain but only Brechstange
defeated the GM in a game that lasted 1h30! Since the GM had to go,
Brechstange kindly analysed the game in company of other players.
Thanks to him!
WCL is
the only site where
Simul are followed by an analysis and comments between the simul giver
and the audience.
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.
GM Yuri
Solodovnichenko vs IM Irina Krush.
It was a nice fight between this two great players. GM Yuri
Solodovnichenko won. We wish good luck to IM Irina Krush
actually playing the US Championship in Tulsa!
IM Goran Vojinovic vs IM Branimir Maksimovic was
the program on sunday May 11. The two International Masters drew their
game. Note that, from now the sunday Banter will take place at 17:00
Server Time. Due to the success of UCSF-QR Tourney The game
ended
in a draw and the
review of the game was much appreciated by the 25 people in
audience!
These
games are recorded with their commentaries for a further rebroadcast.
You can also do /finger Banterchess
to review the games without the comments for now but you will be soon
be able to have the full benefit of the event.
Thanks
to all the players, Members and Masters, and Congratulations to the
Winners.
Rules
and descriptions of all Titled Events can be found here
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| Events
Scheduled This Week (Saturday May 17, May 25) |
| Saturday |
15:00
EST MasterChallenge
19:00 EST Simul+Analysis |
GM
Alex Finkel
IM
Martha Fierro |
| Sunday |
14:00
EST Piece-Odds
17:00 EST Battle of the Week |
GM Vitali Golod
IM Branimir Maksimovic vs
IM Miodrag Perunovic |
| Monday |
15:00
EST Time-Odds
19:00 EST MasterChallenge |
IM
Gergely Szabo
 FM
Dragan Drasko |
| Tuesday |
15:00
EST MC Pieces-Odds
19:00 EST Simul+ Anlaysis |
GM Vitali Golod
GM
Ronen Har-Zvi |
| Wednesday |
15:00
EST Time-Odds
19:00 EST MasterChallenge |
IM Branimir Maksimovic
 GM
Dejan Antic |
| Thursday |
15:00
EST BanterChess
18:00 EST MasterChallenge |
GM
Michael Roiz vsGM
Viktor Gavrikov
IM Branimir Maksimovic
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| Friday |
15:00
EST MasterChallenge
19:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds
20:00 EST TGIF |
GM Larry Christiansen
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko
IM
Alex Lenderman vs
IM Miodrag Perunovic |
| Saturday |
15:00
EST MasterChallenge
19:00 EST Simul + Analysis |
IM Irina Krush
IM
Martha Fierro |
| Sunday |
14:00
EST Piece-Odds
17:00 EST Battle of the Week |
IM Goran Vojinovic
GM Victor Mikhalevski vs
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko |
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Chess Live
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MTel 2008 is underway
 Topalov,
Aronian,
Cheparinov,
Ivanchuk,
Radjabov,
Xiangzhi...
These guys are in Sofia for MTel 2008. They started pushing wood on May
8 and planned to do nothing else till may 18!
Every day, starting at 8:00 AM (15:00 Local
Time) WCL will
relay the games and Chess.FM
will bring you a ringside seat throughout with live commentary with Mig Greengard and
his expert GM team of Joel
Benjamin, Larry
Christiansen, Ronen
Har-Zvi and Nick
de Firmian.
Checkout for GOTD Calendar and Macauley Peterson Videos
direct from the playing venue in Sofia. "finger Mtel08" for
the full schedules.
Standings after Round 7
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NAME |
ELO |
FED |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
PTS |
| 1 |
Cheparinov, Ivan |
2695 |
BUL |
|
0 |
0 |
½ ½ |
½ |
1 1 |
2 |
| 2 |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
2740 |
UKR |
1 |
|
1 ½ |
1 |
1 ½ |
1 |
5 |
| 3 |
Topalov, Veselin |
2767 |
BUL |
1 |
0 ½ |
|
1 1 |
½ |
1 |
3.5 |
| 4 |
Aronian, Levon |
2763 |
ARM |
½ ½ |
0 |
0 0 |
|
½ |
½ |
1.5 |
| 5 |
Radjabov, Teimour |
2751 |
AZE |
½ |
0 ½ |
½ |
½ |
|
½ 1 |
2 |
| 6 |
Bu, Xiangzhi |
2708 |
CHN |
0 0 |
0 |
0 |
½ |
½ 0 |
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1 |
The 2008 FKB US Chess Championship in Tulsa
 Running from May 13, the Frank Berry (pic on the left) Chess Championship is on the way.
After three rounds, GM Sergey Kudrin is sharing the 1st place scoring 2.5/3 with Beccera, Shulman, Kaidanov and Onishuk. GM Sergey Kudrin was one of the
first titled players to join USCF Grand Prix on WCL. 1/2 point behind, GM Boris Gulko and IM David Vigorito (CofC-MA).
In the Women Category, our two WCL sitepros IM Anna Zatonskih and IM Irina Krush are tied at the first place with 3/3.
So, if you dont want want to miss the games relayed on WCL , just become a WCL
member or renew your membership!
More details on the official website
STC
Bunch May Mania
Interested in playing slow games? The STC Bunch organizes slow
tournaments and helps people who prefer slower time controls to find
games. Check out our website at www.stcbunch.net and join channel
90. We have over 1000 members, and membership is free!
May
Mania is here! The STC Bunch's annual four round sprint
kicked off on April 28
and will occur every week.
You just have to sign-up for STC and the games are free.
Keep an eye in channel 90, STCRobot(TD)
announces the games in progress.
The time control is 45 5, and you'll be paired against players with a
rating close to your own in every round. There are prizes available to
WCL members! The minimum requirement is to play at least one game per
month.
Details of the rules can be found at http://stcbunch.net/eventswcl.php
Available
on WCL : Chess Talk with IM John Watson featuring Jonathan Berry
Tune-in
for Chess Talk with IM John Watson on ICC
Chess.FM. John's weekly 60+ minute show will
feature an interview with leading chess personalities. All shows run on
demand for members after airing.
This
week (Tue., 13 May), joining IM John Watson on Chess Talk is Norwegian
grandmaster Simen Agdestein. Apart from being a seven-time
Norwegian chess champion and Olympiad star, Simen is one of those
unique talents who had a dual international career as a professional
soccer player, playing at top level for club and country before being
forced to retire early from the game due to a serious knee injury.
Simen
was also the first chess coach for Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen and
wrote the book on his path to becoming the world's youngest GM,
entitled Wonderboy.
He now works at a top sports academy in Norway, where he teaches chess
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Play Tourneys on WCL
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Have Fun: Join Tournaments !
Each days WCL invites you to join Scheduled Tournaments.
The list and schedule is in
Event
Windows. The tournament team tries to set tup
different types of tournaments : Standard with the famous bi-daily Random-Draw,
a 15 0 swiss rated tourney in 4 rounds (monthly awarded) at 8:00 EDT
and 14:00 EDT held in Slomato (channel 222), the hyper speed Mouse Race
at 11:00 EDT a series of three tourneys 10sec+1sec of 5 rounds bullet
rated in Flash (channel 49) but also some wildchess tourneys as Clear-the-Board
where you just have to lose if you want to win. And other tourneys as Chessaholic Trophy
(sunday 15:00 EDT) or FridayNightBlitz
(awarded).
Also, the 3 Hour wild
Marathon confirms its popularity! "finger WildMarathon"
This series of wild tourneys is held in Wild channel (223) every
Wednesday from 17:00 server time to 20:00.
Those tournaments open 15-20
minutes before the scheduled time and the
managers always wait the exact time before starting. That gives you
enough time to finish your current game but join as
soon as you are ready! don't stay as an
observer, thinking "I
join if other join" faster you join and more you are and... less you
wait.
Waiting
for a tournament? REQUEST CHANNEL (221) is the place!
 Too often, the players
wait for a tourney to be open and never see the one they expect. The
Tournament Managers (TM) are here to run what people ask for but... how
can they guess that 10 people would join a blitz, or some specific wild
or triple elimination... or... there are so much
possibilities! So, the TM opens randomly a tourney and it
doesn't fill "abort by lack or interest".
The solution is simple! Channel
221 is dedicated to Tournament
Request so, instead of waiting, join that channel and ask,
for example "Hi, can you organize a 5 0
blitz". When you see someone already post a seek, feel
free to say, "yes
I am interesting in it, too" or "I would prefer an Atomic
double elimination". Well, channel 221 is also a chat
channel, so... use it for chatting and say your wishes.
That way, the TM will more likely open a tourney that suits to a
maximum of people!
An other tip to help the tourney to start faster... It looks obvious
but... JOIN !
When the players have the feeling the tourney is about to
start, they jump in. It is a way to say to the other players that your
are really interesting in this tournament and that it won't
abort.
Just ask!!
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. Of course, ask your questions in channel 1,
the Helpers will be please to answer
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WCL
prize Tournaments
Prize Tournaments came to WCL too
& with them WCL's Tournament Hall of Fame Started!
"finger Prize-Tourney" for information on the Prizes.
Winners for the Friday Night Blitz:
May
9 : 1st KingSingh123; 2nd
CaseyWestern ; Random Draw BANZAIFISH (12th place)
Winners
for the Monthly Random Draw Tournament :
April, 2008 : Best Brechstange; most GeorgeAnderson3;
Random Draw
winner: RD1 MikhailTal2
(#14) ; RD2 warrenwhite (#25)
One week for each winner !
Winners
for the Monthly Chessaholic's Trophy:
April 2008: 1st leonardoalmeida;
2nd
RdgMx;
most croder
Two weeks for the
winner of that Trophy and one week for the others
awarded
WildMarathon
Results after 2 Marathons: MACTEP 38.5; Lena 34; GUNSMOKE 22.5
For full results of May 14: tell tournamentbot grid 5614-5619
Wilds played: Crazy; Atomic; Losers; chess960; Random (W29); Losers
"finger Wildmarathon"
Predict-A-Move
April Results : best timm 112825
pts; most MassimoViti
92875 pts.162 differents
players played PAM in April! Results
for the top
3 in the PAM played from Thursday, May 8 to
Wednesday, May 14:
| Thursday |
1. timm
3075 pts |
2. Alstone52 2950 pts |
3. MassimoViti 2800 pts |
| Friday |
1. timm
3425 pts |
2. ZoranMilenkovic
3325 pts |
3. Alstone52 3200
pts |
| Saturday |
1. Alstone52
3950 pts |
2. ZoranMilenkovic 3925 pts
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3. AdvisorLee 3850 pts |
| Sunday |
1. timm 2750
pts |
2. EduardoAbramson 2600 pts
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3. Zoraidax 2475 pts |
| Monday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic 3900
pts |
2. timm 3550 pts |
3. Alstone52 3175 pts |
| Tuesday |
1. timm 3100
pts |
2. ZoranMilenkovic
3100 pts |
3. Alstone52 2825 pts |
| Wednesday |
1. timm 4850
pts |
2. AdvisorLee 4525 pts |
3. Alswtone52 4500 pts |
You can find WCL's
full Tournament schedule in our
Events Window menu and "finger
Prize-Tourneys" to have the complete list of the
awarded tourneys..
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 Special
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SIX-MONTH MEMBERSHIP to World Chess Live are
now available to all
members of the U.S.
Chess Federation, whether or not they are currently
members of WCL. For
new WCL members, simply enter your USCF
membership
number and PIN at the bottom of the WCL
registration page in the Group
ID and Group PIN boxes.
If you're already registered with WCL, go to your account
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the link in the
Memberships/Affiliations section at the bottom. (Sign-up for
this offer ending on September 30, 2008).
USCF
members are full part WCL members and can take benefit of
all the events, tourneys, videos, that are provided by WCL to his
members so enjoy and don't limit your pleasure to USCF events. On the
other hand, all WCL members are invited to get their USCF membership and
play in that great event!
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
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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.
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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.
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