FINAL of USCF - GRAND PRIX
 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 May
29th: Monthly Final #2
Every last Thursday of
the month, at 20:00 server time, the OGP is held on WCL. All
along the month, Weekly satellites Tourneys are played as qualifiers for
this event. The other players can enter the Final for only 20 Crowns (go to
>web>my account to purchase Crowns, 1 Crown= 1USD).
Full details and rules can be found at WCL-USCF
2008 Grand Prix
The 12 best players
coming from the qualifiers of May, including those who payed the entry
fee -last chance for them to win that Monthly final- started the
tourney at 20:00 server time. It was a Swiss 3 2 tourney, as usual. At
the end. One IM and one FM were favorite but an underdog ran off with
the Prize. Congrats to AKain for winning with a score of 4.5/5, half a point ahead of IM Alex Lenderman (AlexL).
The prizes are as follow: first place 12 points + 40 crowns. 2nd place 8 points + 20 crowns and membership extension for all (depending of their result in the tourney).
That means prizes for everybody and we are sure you will be many more
to join this tournament all allong the weekly satellites played each
thursday and, of course for the next monthly final : June 26th!
Full
results "tell USCFBOT grid 9"
Of
course, all the precautions are taken to avoid any form of abuse. At the
end of the tourneys, after the games are checked, the results are
transmitted to USCF.
Sunday at 19:00
server time: USCF QR
Sunday May 25,
The USCF QR is the other tourney online ran in cooperation with USCF
and stands at 19:00 server time every sunday so, last sunday, May
25, 26
players joined it!!! There is no entry
fee for
this tournament till the end of June, so don't miss the
opportunity to test - and improve- your skills!
Blitz
5 0 Swiss Style unrated (on WCL). Held in channel 121 by USCFBOT
1st
Juliano (FM) 6/7; 2nd adithya 6/7;
3rd AttackingTal 5/7
Full
results "tell USCFBOT grid 8"
ALL THE
RESULTS UPDATED ARE ON THE PAGE
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Titled players challenge you !
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MasterChallenge(*)(C)(TD):
>Congratulations
WCL-Member
for defeating GM Garry TooStrongarov in the MasterChallenge
event.
Congratulations WCL-Member 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 22
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18:00 EDT
 IM Branimir Maksimovic. 20
games were played in that MasterChallenge where only two
members could defeat the Master. Congrats to PeterGiannatos and AttackingTal.
Friday, May 23
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15:00 EDT
 GM
Larry Christiansen played a 1 0 vs 2 0 Master
Challenge, winning 24 out of 25 games,
drawing to ZoranMilenkovic.
Waiting for volunteers to play faster with a better result...
Saturday,
May 24
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15:00 EDT
 GM
Vitali Golod jumped at the last minute in the
master Challenge and played without increment 1 vs 2. So, his result
looks really great, 21 wins and only one draw to AndrewLatham. Not
that far from the score of GM Larry Christiansen...
Monday, May 19
| 15:00 EDT
IM Gergely Szabo played 18
games in 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 26
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19:00 EDT
IM Sasha Belezky returned a
clear sheet with 17/17!
Monday, May 26
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19:00 EDT
IM
Irina Krush back from Tulsa, played her MasterChallenge
where she scored 15/16 giving up a game to crickcrakjaw.
Wednesday, May
28 | 15:00 EDT
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko for
a time-odds Master Challenge played
17 games. He lost to... errr... nobody!
Wednesday, May
28| 19:00 EDT
GM Larry Christiansen won his 23 games. To lose doesn't seem to be in his vocabu-Larry!
Piece-Odds
Sunday,
May 25
| 14:00 EDT
IM Goran Vojinovic
played the Piece-Odds. 17 wins, 1 loss to Superpanda.
Tuesday, May 27
| 15:00 EDT
GM Yuri Solodovnicheko
played a Piece- Odds with a perfect score of 15/15.
In Piece-Odds,
the time control is 2 0 vs 2 0.
Of
course, only members can play, so get
your membership!
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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 10 players. Martha won 9 and lost 1 to Brechstange. As
usual, the review of the game vs matein50
was very instructional.
marthafierro(IM)
kibitz: i decided to choose this game, cause i play center
counter
sometimes and in this game, an interesting sac happens
marthafierro(IM)
kibitz: i think scandinavian is a simple openning and
helps you
understand strategy... cause in this openning there are many ideas of
how to play with a solid pawn structure
To review this
game type /examine
#1315113111
GM Ronen Har-Zvi, played
his Tuesday's Simul vs 12 players. That means the simul was FULL and sorry for
those who wait the beginning for joining. It is possible for the
manager to increase the max number of players before the beginning but,
once it is running, Simulbot closes its doors. GM Ronen Har-Zvi lost to
Marius
! and draw to Brechstange
after a more than 100 moves games !
The game chosen
for the analysis (short due to the length of the game vs Brechstange
was franco's
one.
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
Viktor Gavrikov vs GM
Michael Roiz. The two strong GM were facing in a
25/5 games. The game ended in a draw.
GM Victor Mikhalevski
vs GM Yuri
Solodovnichenko was the second GM's duel of the week on
that sunday, May 25.Nice win by Victor after a game who looked drawish
for a long time. 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 23 people in
audience during the game and the post
analysis!
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.
 TGIF
This Friday
evening, (May 23), 2 IM were in front of their screen for that popular
event!.
IM Alex Lenderman 8 - 6 IM
Miodrag Perunovic .
The younger won
but Miodrag is still in good shape ;-)
Thank you to
both players who gave their best in that series of 3 0 Biltz.
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!
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 31, Sunday June 8) |
| Saturday |
15:00
EST MasterChallenge
19:00 EST Simul+Analysis |
IM
Goran Vojinovic
IM
Martha Fierro |
| Sunday |
14:00
EST Piece-Odds
17:00 EST Battle of the Week |
GM
Michael Roiz
GM
Victor Mikhalevski vs IM
Irina Krush |
| Monday |
15:00
EST Time-Odds
19:00 EST MasterChallenge |
IM
Sasha Belezky
IM
Goran Vojinovic |
| Tuesday |
15:00
EST MC Pieces-Odds
19:00 EST Simul+ Anlaysis |
GM
Vitali Golod
 GM
Dejan Antic |
| Wednesday |
15:00
EST Time-Odds
19:00 EST MasterChallenge |
GM Alex Finkel
IM Miodrag Perunovic |
| Thursday |
15:00
EST BanterChess
18:00 EST MasterChallenge |
GM
Victor Mikhalevski vsIM
Alex Lenderman
IM Branimir Maksimovic
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| Friday |
15:00
EST MasterChallenge
19:00 EST MC Pieces-Odds
20:00 EST TGIF |
IM
Irina Krush
GM
Larry Christiansen
IM
Goran Vojinovic vs IM Gergely Szabo |
| Saturday |
15:00
EST MasterChallenge
19:00 EST Simul + Analysis |
GM
Michael Roiz
IM
Martha Fierro |
| Sunday |
14:00
EST Piece-Odds
17:00 EST Battle of the Week |
 IM Dragan Stamenkovic
GM Boris Gulko vs GM
Ronen Har-Zvi |
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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.
Please don't say, as i saw lately, a member leaving the tourney and
saying : I'll be back
when 5 people have join. Of course, if everybody do the
same errrr... guess what !
Just
ask and... be patient!! 
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 23 : 1st muaddib; 2nd wsabobo ; Random Draw stone55423 (14th
place)
with 23 players, this tournament is among the most popular on WCL
"tell
tournamentbot grid 5732"
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 3
Marathons: MACTEP 75; Lena 49.5; Chrismiller4 33
For full results of May 21: tell tournamentbot grid 5811-5815
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 22 to
Wednesday, May 28:
| Thursday |
1. timm
5175 pts |
2. ZoranMilenkovic 4925 pts |
3. Janos07 4600 pts
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| Friday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic
3675
pts |
2. Alstone52 3575 pts |
3. timm 3550
pts |
| Saturday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic
4250 pts |
2. timm 4000 pts |
3. Alstone52 3925 pts |
| Sunday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic 3575
pts |
2. Alstone52 3300 pts
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3. timm 3075 pts |
| Monday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic 3900
pts |
2. timm 3550 pts |
3. Alstone52 3175 pts |
| Tuesday |
1. Alstone52 1200
pts |
2. Zoraidax 1050 pts |
3. Janos07 1025 pts |
| Wednesday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic 4675
pts |
2. CCarlson 4425 pts |
3. Alstone52 4350 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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Questions and some answers:
- Too much channels!
You are in Lobby (channel 250) but you want to see what is happening in
the channel where you just joined a tourney, and, of course, you don't
want to miss the announces in main and... well you don't want
to
miss a thing! so you can choose and switch from tab to tab OR, in
settings, unmark channel tab. Then all the message will appear in a
single window in a different color with the number of the channel they
come from like username{223}:
when does the wild tourney start? .But, each time you want
to send a message in a channel, it must be like /tell 250 <your
text> to send it in 250, then /t 1 <my question
is> if you want to ask something in newbie/live
channel. By the way there is a shortcut, if you type ', <my text>'
your message will be sent in the channel you just used before.
- Games
of the day / Videos
: they are available for members only (so
join us !)
with your WCL handle and password. Don't miss the series "Attack with LarryC".
- 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.
- 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
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if your club organizes an event
or anything else, we can mention it.
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