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AeroSvit - 2008
Currently underway just now in Foros, Ukraine, is the Aerosvit-2008 elite tournament featuring twelve of the world's top grandmasters (average rating 2711) vying for the title.
The line-up (in rating order) includes: 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)
Norwegian
wunderkind Magnus Carlsen, 17, continues to wreck havoc though at
another elite event as he beat Alexei Shirov in round 5 for a fourth
win so far in the tournament, as he extends his lead to 1.5-points at
the top on 4.5/5.
Carlsen’s
tournament performance rating continues to hit new stratospheric
heights as it now nears 3100(!). His +4 score also means a
big boost for his Elo rating that could well make the teenager the de
facto new world No.1 before the end of the tournament!
Will
he do it? You can find out here at WCL by following Carlsen's
progress with live coverage of the games from Aerosvit, starting at
08:00 EDT (15:00 local). Each day, Chess.FM also provides WCL
members with a Game of the Day (GOTD) video of the
best game of each round for you to tune-in to, with expert analysis
from site pros GM Joel Benjamin, GM Larry Christiansen and GM Ronen
Har-Zvi (see below).
The
games are
stored in aerosvit08 (finger
aerosvit08)
More information can be found at the Official Site
En Passant: GM Karen Asrian, 1980-2008
One
of Armenia’s leading grandmasters and reigning national
champion, Karen Asrian, the linchpin of his
country’s gold medal-winning Olympiad team at Turin in 2006,
died suddenly of a suspected heart attack last week, aged 28.
Asrian,
a three-time Armenian champion (1999, 2007 and 2008), and ranked number
92 in the world, took ill in his car while driving to the capital city
Yerevan, where he was scheduled to act as a guest commentator for the
opening day’s play at the Yerevan Giants, a new elite rapid
tournament taking place there.
The
tragic news of Asrian’s untimely death at such a young age
overshadowed what was supposed to be a gala opening at the national
Opera House for the Yerevan Giants. Play was suspended for two days
with the tournament reduced in rounds and renamed "the Karen
Asrian Memorial" in his honor.
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Scheduled This Week (Saturday June 14, Sunday June 22) |
| 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 |
| Monday |
15:00
EDT Time-Odds
19:00 EDT MasterChallenge |
 GM
Daniel Fridman
 IM
Dragan Stamenkovic |
| 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 |
WGM Anna Zatonskih
IM
Goran Vojinovic |
| Thursday |
15:00
EDT BanterChess
18:00 EDT MasterChallenge |
 IM
Sasha Belezky vs 
IM Gergely Szabo
 FM
Dragan Drasko
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| Friday |
15:00
EDT MasterChallenge
19:00 EDT MC Pieces-Odds
20:00 EDT TGIF |
IM
Martha Fierro
FM
Dragan Drasko
 GM
Dejan Antic vs IM
Alex Lenderman |
| Saturday |
15:00
EDT MasterChallenge
19:00 EDT Simul + Analysis |
GM
Alex Finkel
GM
Larry Christiansen |
| Sunday |
14:00
EDT Piece-Odds
17:00 EDT Battle of the Week |
 GM
Viktor Gavrikov
GM
Boris Gulko vs
GM
Victor Mikhalevski |
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Happy Birhday
WCL !
An Exceptional
Tournament was run on
Saturday
June, 7th at 17:00 EDT
to celebrate the
merging of CL
and WCN,
one year ago.
This PRIZE
Tournament attracted 40 players! It was a 5 0 Blitz, in 9
rounds Swiss style played in Cooly (channel 224). The 6
months membership prizes are dispatched as follow:
1st AKain 8
weeks - 2nd Endgames
6 weeks - 3rd brechstange
4 weeks
best under 1700: Frank001
- best under 1300
chrismiller4 2 weeks
RandomDraw
: newtexan
- MMc - JanPedersen - AlonzoB - AdvisorLee 1 week
each
Thanks
to all those who played and those who followed the
games. Congrats to the
winners !
And see you next year for the second anniversary!
Till then, just play, play and play... to be among the winners!
"tell tournamentbot 5936"
for full details
Have Fun: Join Tournaments !
Each day
WCL invites you to join Scheduled
Tournaments.
The list and schedule are in
the Event
Window.
The tournament team tries to set up 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 and join as
soon as you are ready! Don't stay as an
observer, thinking "I will
join if others join"; the faster you join, the more players you are and the less you
will wait.
Special
event on WCL
WCL has been asked
to organize a Tourney: Chicago Industrial League(CICL)
vs the Bankers Athletic
League(BAL) in NY City
CICL
vs BAL team. It starts at 2:00 PM EST / a 90 2 Standard 4 Team
tourney
Each
club would have two teams. A 1900+ team (ex. CICLA) and an under 1900
team (CICLB).
So, be there if you like to watch Standard games!
And
contact us if you want us to set up tournaments
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
12th: Grand Prix
Thursday, 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= 1 USD).
The entry fee for the Satellites is only $3. Full details and rules can
be found at WCL-USCF
2008 Grand Prix
23
Players joined the tourneys!
The results of this week AlexL,
1st
place 6.5/7 followed by Endgames and Spacecadet, both 5/7
Full
results: "tell USCFBOT grid
14"
Next
monthly final : June 26th!
All precautions are taken to avoid any form of
abuse. At the
end of the tourneys and after the games are checked, the results are
transmitted to USCF.
Sunday at 19:00
server time: USCF QR
Sunday June 8th,
The USCF QR is the other tourney online run in cooperation with USCF
and starts at 19:00 server time every Sunday. Last Sunday, June 8th,
51
players joined it!!! There is no entry
fee for
this tournament until the end of June, so don't miss the
opportunity to test - and improve- your skills!
The games are now played with official USCF ratings, not your WCL
rating, so the pairings are more balanced and you can play as much as
you want on WCL besides the tourneys without affecting it.
Blitz
5 0 Swiss Style unrated (on WCL). Held in channel 121 by USCFBOT
1st
PlayWayCool 6/7; 2nd
adithya 6/7;
3rd Brechstange 5.5/7
Full
results "tell USCFBOT grid 13"
ALL THE
RESULTS ARE UPDATED ON THE PAGE
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Questions and some answers:
- Too many channels!
You are in the 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 announcements in Main and... well you don't want
to
miss a thing! So you can choose to switch from tab to tab OR, in
the Settings, uncheck Channel Tabs. Then all the messages will appear in a
single window in different colors, including the number of the channel they
come from, such as:
username{223}:
when does the wild tourney start?
However, each time you want
to send a message in a channel, it must be in the form /tell 250 <your
text> to send it in 250, or /tell 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.
- Games
of the Day / Videos
: they are available for members only (so
join us !)
with your WCL handle and password. Don't miss the new "GM Ronen Har-Zvi : Petroff Defense".
- The Petroff Defense (sometimes
called the Russian Defense, and named after Russia's Alexander Petrov
(1794-1867) is considered as one of Black’s most reliable and
solid methods of meeting the King’s Pawn opening. It is easy
to play and an excellent choice for someone looking for an alternative
to the Scotch Opening, the Italian Game and the ‘Spanish
torture’ of the Ruy Lopez. Until a few years ago, the Petroff
was an opening that was favored by only a few top Grandmasters,
including Anatoly Karpov and Artur Yusupov. However, the last few years
have seen a dramatic rise in its popularity, and it now provides
battlefields for many top clashes of the modern elite players,
including Anand, Kramnik, Leko, Topalov, and Shirov. And in
the latest of his "New Ideas in..." series, GM Ronen Har-Zvi, takes a
closer look under the microscope at the solid
Petroff
- Dan Heisman
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 download it
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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us. We will give you a personal answer or
publish it in this part if many of you are concerned by a topic. We
also accept information from members of WCL. If you have played a
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or if your club organizes an event, we can mention it.
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