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INTERNATIONAL CHESS
TOURNAMENT 'AEROSVIT-2008', CRIMEA, FOROS, 7-20.06.2008
 On June
7th, will start the Aerovist-2008 in Crimea. Twelve of the top GM
(average rating 2711) will battle for the title.
Carlsen,
Magnus (NOR, 2765); Svidler,
Peter (RUS,
2746); Ivanchuk,
Vassily
(UKR, 2740); Shirov,
Alexei
(ESP 2740); Karjakin,
Sergey (UKR,2732); Jakovenko,
Dmitry
(RUS, 2711); Alekseev,
Evgeny (RUS, 2711); Eljanov,
Pavel
(UKR, 2687) Volokitin,
Andrei (UKR, 2684); Nisipeanu,
Liviu-Dieter
(ROU, 2684); Van
Wely, Loek
(NED, 2676); Onischuk,
Alexander (USA, 2664)
The Games will be relayed on WCL.
The first round begins at 15:00 localtime. The time control is 90min
for 40 moves + 30 minutes to end the game, with an increment of 30
seconds per move.
Game Of
The Day (GOTD) will be provided by Chess.FM. The games
will be stored in areovist08 (finger
aerovist08)
More infos can be founf on the Official Site
GM Illescas + Machine vs Machine
 We were waiting
for that man versus machine match with a twist : ICC's Deep
Junior 11 got set to face a combined challenge from GM Miguel Illescas
and Junior 9 on Thursday, June 5th starting at 12:00pm EDT
at CosmoCaixa in
Barcelona, Spain.
Miguel Illescas is a
seven-time Spanish champion and second to former world
champion Vladimir Kramnik. And his
relationship with computers is a crucial one - he was hired as a
consultant by IBM for Deep Blue, the machine that beat Kasparov in 1997.
Deep Junior 11 is a new version of the five-time world computer chess
champion program, created by Israelis Amir Ban and Shay
Bushinsky, that also drew a six-game match in 2003 in New
York against Kasparov.
The match was 2 games 20 10 which both ended in a draw so. "Finger Junior08"
to examine them.
ICC now has the
exclusive rights to new versions of Junior (both Deep Junior 11 and
Junior 11), and soon after the match it will be commercially available.
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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 29
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18:00 EDT
 IM Alex Lenderman. 14 wins
and 2 losses to Blacactus
and Houda,
four the young and popular IM.
Friday, May 30
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15:00 EDT
 IM
Branimir Maksimovic played a Master
Challenge, winning 11 games,
drawing to Lena.
and losing to Lena,
arnoldmuscat
and Goran.
Saturday,
May 31
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15:00 EDT
IM
Goran Vojinovic played 18 games, 4 losses to Marydawson, dusamadamec, arnoldmuscat and Lena.
Saturday,
May 31
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19:00 EDT
IM
Branimir Maksimovic played 17 games, 2 losses to Chessqueen20 et dusamadamec.
Sunday, June 1
| 17:00 EDT
GM Viktor Mikhalevski played
16
games and won all.
Monday, June 2
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15:00 EDT
IM Sasha Belezky 16 games 1
draw to BogdanGirmacea
Monday, June 2
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19:00 EDT
IM
Goran Vojinovic made a perfect score with 17 wins.
Wednesday, June
3 | 15:00 EDT
GM Alex Finkel for
a time-odds Master Challenge played
17 games. He lost to... errr... nobody!
Wednesday, June
3 | 19:00 EDT
IM Miodrag Perunovic won
his 19 games. We knew the "Four knights opening", here is the "Four
Knights ending" of the last game played by Mio.
"finger MasterChallenge"
for more details
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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 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 Goran Vojinovic'Simul,
was played against 12 players! The Simul was full and some players who
waited the Simul to start before latejoining stayed out :(
Goran scored 11.5/12 drawing to Brechstange
with who he reviewed the game to point out how the player lost the game
in totally winning position.
GoranVojinovic(IM)
kibitz: by the rules of Alekhin, King support
passed pawns and rook play against opponents pawns
Let's keep that
in mind!
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
Arthur Kogan.
As usual, Arthur brought his 'olala spirit' in the event giving
entertainment to the audience but that was not enough to win this
25/5 game.
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 30), again a great battle!.
GM Vitali Golod 7 - 5 IM
Miodrag Perunovic .
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
VitaliGolod MioPerunovic 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!
Piece-Odds
Friday,
May 30
| 19:00 EDT
GM Larry Christiansen:
19 games= 19 wins.
Sunday, June 1
| 14:00 EDT
GM Michael Roiz 22
games = 22 wins.
Tuesday, May 27
| 15:00 EDT
GM Vitali Golod
20 games= 20 wins.
This week, not a single game lost
by our GM in Piece-Odds! Congrats!
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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| Events
Scheduled This Week (Saturday June 7, Sunday June 15) |
| Saturday |
15:00
EDT MasterChallenge
19:00 EDT Simul+Analysis |
GM
Michael Roiz
 IM
Martha Fierro |
| Sunday |
14:00
EDT Piece-Odds
17:00 EDT Battle of the Week |
 IM
Dragan Stamenkovic
GM
Boris Gulko vs GM
Ronen Har-Zvi |
| Monday |
15:00
EDT Time-Odds
19:00 EDT MasterChallenge |
GM
Larry Christiansen
IM
Branimir Maksimovic |
| Tuesday |
15:00
EDT MC Pieces-Odds
19:00 EDT Simul+ Anlaysis |
GM
Vitali Golod
GM
Ronen Har-Zvi |
| Wednesday |
15:00
EDT Time-Odds
19:00 EDT MasterChallenge |
GM
Viktor Mikhalevski
IM
Miodrag Perunovic |
| Thursday |
15:00
EDT BanterChess
18:00 EDT MasterChallenge |
IM
Sasha Belezky vs IM Irina Krush
IM
Alex Lenderman
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| Friday |
15:00
EDT MasterChallenge
19:00 EDT MC Pieces-Odds
20:00 EDT TGIF |
GM
Larry Christiansen
 GM
Dejan Antic
 FM
Dragan Drasko vs IM
Dragan Stamenkovic |
| Saturday |
15:00
EDT MasterChallenge
19:00 EDT Simul + Analysis |
IM
Goran Vojinovic
IM
Martha Fierro |
| Sunday |
14:00
EDT Piece-Odds
17:00 EDT Battle of the Week |
GM
Alex Finkel
GM
Boris Gulko vs GM
Vitali Golod |
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 Play Tourneys on WCL
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Happy Birhday
WCL
An Exceptional
Tournament will be set up on Saturday
June, 7th at 17:00 EDT
to celebrate the
merging of CL
and WCN,
one year ago.
Of
course it will be a PRIZE
Tournament with 6
months membership to win !
You
are ALL invited to play
The
tourney will be a 9 rounds Blitz, swiss pairings 5 0
So...
Just one thing to do : JOIN
US
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.
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 June
5th: Grand Prix
Thursday of
the month, at 20:00 server time, Satellites of the GP are held on WCL.
Those Weekly satellites Tourneys are played as qualifiers
for
the Monthly Final. The winners eaned a ticket to enter the
final.
The players who, otherwiss wouldn't have been qualified can
buy
their tickets too
(go to
>web>my account to purchase Crowns, 1 Crown= 1USD).
The entry fee for the Satellites is only $3. Full details and rules can
be found at WCL-USCF
2008 Grand Prix
34 Players joined the tourneys!
The winners of the tickets this week are Playwaycool, 1st place 6/7 and Justin 2nd 5/7 and 4.5/5 in Tie-break. Five players went in that Playoff played in Round Robin 5 0 bliz
Full
results "tell USCFBOT grid
11" and "tell USCFBot 12" for the tie-break.
next monthly final : June 26th!
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 June 1st,
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, 61
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!
The games are now played with the official USCF rating, not your WCL
rating, so the pairings are more balanced and you can play as much as
you want on WCL beside the tourneys without affecting it.
The winners this week were 1st Houda,
2nd Nickraptis
(FM), 3rd Juliano
(FM)
Titled players are joining the event, giving you the opportunity to
have more interesting games! And everyone has a chance to win! (Even if
luck is not the the most important factor in chess...)
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 10"
ALL THE
RESULTS UPDATED ARE ON THE PAGE
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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 30 : 1st
muaddib; 2nd jps7 ; Random Draw wilqin911 (15th
place)
with 23 players, this tournament is among the most popular on WCL
"tell
tournamentbot grid 5833"
Winners
for the Monthly Random Draw Tournament :
May, 2008 : Best Brechstange; most Chikolv;
Random Draw
winner: RD1 KennethJackson
(#14) ; RD2 PeterGiannatos
(#25)
One week for each winner !
Winners
for the Monthly Chessaholic's Trophy:
April 2008: 1st leonardoalmeida;
2nd Fgetulio;
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 ZoranMilenkovic
99650
pts; most MassimoViti
82475 pts.153 differents
players played PAM in April! Results
for the top
3 in the PAM played from Thursday, May 29 to
Wednesday, June 4:
| Thursday |
1. ZoranMilenkovic
3225 pts |
2. MassimoViti
3125 pts |
3. Alstone52 3075 pts |
| Friday |
1. AdvisorLee
3750
pts |
2. timm 3625 pts |
3. Alstone52 3625
pts |
| Saturday |
1. timm
3375 pts |
2. normandbluteau 3225 pts |
3. Alstone52 3225 pts |
| Sunday |
1. timm 3100
pts |
2. Normandbluteau 3025 pts |
3. Alstone52 3025 pts |
| Monday |
1. timm 3500
pts |
2. Alstone52 3450 pts |
3. Zoraidax 3375 pts |
| Tuesday |
1. MassimoViti
2650 pts |
2. timm 2300 pts |
3. robertbancod 2275
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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create an online chess community for novice, intermediate, and
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By becoming a
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 Special
offer :
FREE
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
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If you're already registered with WCL, go to your account
page and use
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
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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 "Boris
Alterman's Gambit Guide".
 In the Part 1, Boris Alterman
explores the legendary Fried Liver Attack in the Two Knights Defence
with 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 Ng5 d5 5 exd5 Nxd5 6 Nxf7!?
The Two Knights
Defence is one of the trickiest tactical openings around. If White
initiates complications with the so-called Fried Liver Attack, play
becomes extremely sharp and gambits and counter gambits abound. Anyone
who enters the murky waters of the Fried Liver must be well prepared
for the mind-boggling complications that ensue.
National
Master Dan Heisman is a name
that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and
teaching.
Dan
authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess
Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving
adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very
practical advice and tips on how to improve your game. He has
also written eight (with more in the pipeline) acclaimed teaching books
on the game, including Elements of Positional Chess Evaluation,
Everyone's 2nd Chess Book, and Looking for Trouble.
Over
the years, Dan has produced many winning students and scholastic teams
- and now he can help you, too! In this series of five
instructional videos for ICC Chess.FM, Dan brings you his innovative
teaching methods on how to play better chess - and all packed with
sound advice from the maestro himself.
The
five videos (and their target audience's standard ratings) are:
-Introduction
to Safety and Counting (below 1500)
-Introduction
to Time Management (all players)
-Introduction
to Thought Process (800-1800)
-Common
Evaluation Misconceptions (1000-2200)
-Is
It Safe? (below 1900) - this video is a follow-up to "Introduction to
Safety and Counting"
The first video is FREE! just click on the link or on the pic and
enjoy!
The other videos are for WCL Members only so... what do you wait? Join
Now!
- 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.
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if your club organizes an event
or anything else, we can mention it.
Some of you may have questions relatives to login, lost password,
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