Grischuk wins 3rd ICC Mainz qualifier

Top seed Alexander Grischuk of Russia was in majestic form on Sunday as he easily won the Mainz Chess Classic Chess960 online title hosted on ICC. Besides 750 Euros and accommodation and breakfast at the Hilton Mainz Hotel, Grischuk won an automatic seat in two tournaments at the Mainz Chess Classic. Read more

Ciudad de Dos Hermanas at ICC

Now in its tenth consecutive year, the annual “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas” 2009, the biggest and best online blitz tournament is set to be hosted March 13th to 21st yet again on the Internet Chess Club. You can play one of the qualifiers till and including Wednesday. Read more

A Corus of Online Approval

In a unique partnership with the Corus Chess Tournament, one of the world’s greatest and most famous chess festivals, Internet Chess Club (ICC) will be hosting a special satellite qualifier for one of the last two vacant spots in the 2009 ‘C’ Group. Read more

“The United States needed a high level chess league”

Grandmaster Joel Benjamin, three-time United States champion, stares at the chessboard, pondering his next move. His team, the New Jersey Knockouts is up against their United States Chess League Eastern Division rivals, the Boston Blitz. Slowly, with a deliberate cadence practiced so many times, Benjamin reaches for his bishop, and draws it back to e3. Read more

[lang_nl]Nakamura wint ICC’s trip naar Mainz [/lang_nl][lang_en]Nakamura wins ICC’s trip to Mainz [/lang_en]

[lang_nl]De als tweede geplaatste Amerikaanse GM Hikaru Nakamura (Smallville) bewees gisteren weer eens zijn klasse als een van de allerbeste snelschakers op ICC door de Mainz Chess Classic online Chess960-titel te winnen.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Second seed GM Hikaru Nakamura (Smallville) of the USA reasserted his authority as one of the top dogs on ICC on Sunday by winning the Mainz Chess Classic online Chess960 title.[/lang_en] Read more

[lang_nl]Wie wil er weer naar Mainz?[/lang_nl][lang_en]The Mainz Attraction II[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]ICC kondigt een nieuwe samenwerking aan met Chess Tigers, de organisatoren van de populaire, jaarlijkse Mainz Chess Classic in Duitsland. Voor de tweede maal wordt er een Chess960-kwalificatietoernooi georganiseerd voor het FiNet en Ordix Open.[/lang_nl][lang_en]ICC is pleased to announce they’re collaborating again with Chess Tigers, organizers of the popular annual Mainz Chess Classic in Germany, for a 2nd Chess960 Internet Qualifier for the FiNet and Ordix opens.[/lang_en] Read more

[lang_nl]Sammour-Hasbun herhaalt sprookje[/lang_nl][lang_en]Sammour-Hasbun: ICC’s Cinderella Man[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Het is nauwelijks te geloven, maar hij heeft het ‘m weer geflikt. Het sprookje van vorig jaar, waarin de titelloze Jorge Sammour-Hasbun er met de eerste prijs vandoor ging bij het jaarlijkse online Dos Hermanas-snelschaaktoernooi op ICC, heeft zich herhaald.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Who says lightening doesn’t strike twice? Last year’s Cinderella-story winner of the Internet Chess Club's annual Dos Hermanas blitz tournament, Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (ICC NECF-InSchools), proved that lightening does indeed strike twice as he retained his title.[/lang_en] Read more

[lang_nl]Kramnik tegen Werle & Sebag[/lang_nl][lang_en]Kramnik plays Werle & Sebag[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Vanmiddag begint om 14.00 in Enschede een bijzonder evenement. Voormalig wereldkampioen Vladimir Kramnik speelt in het kantoor van DGT Projects een simultaan tegen IGM Jan Werle en WGM Marie Sebag.[/lang_nl][lang_en]This afternoon, at 14:00 CET, in Enschede, the Netherlands a special event takes place: in a simultaneous exhibition, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik plays IGM Jan Werle & WGM Marie Sebag.[/lang_en] Read more

Dos Hermanas (internet) starts today

For the ninth year running the XIX Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas” (Spain) is being held on the ICC playing zone. Registration for the event is completely free both for ICC members and non-members!

This event is clearly the most important Internet chess tournament in the world, featuring the biggest number of participants. In the 2007 edition, nearly 2000 players from all over the world took part. The winner, former child prodigy and under-10 World Champion IM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun, overcome an impressive field of 300 IM/GM's, including top players Shahriyar Mamedyarov, Tigran L. Petrosian, Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Kiril Georgiev and Sergey Shipov.

This year the prize fund is $12,000 (equivalent of 7,700 Euro), with $3,400 (equivalent of 2,000 Euro) 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.

As in previous editions, the playing system is as follows: twelve 12-round Swiss qualifiers using the playing rate: 3 minutes per game. Qualifiers are held twice a day from March 28th to April 2nd, and the finals are held on April 4th and 5th. The 12 qualifier winners plus the 20 best scores qualify to the 32 KO final.

Full rules, guidelines and registrations can be found at ICC’s special Dos Hermanas website.

John B. Henderson,
ICC

[lang_nl]Tigran L. Petrosian wint ICC’s Gibraltar qualifier[/lang_nl][lang_en]Tigran L. Petrosian wins ICC’s Gibraltar qualifier[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Er moet toch iets met die naam zijn. De jonge Armeni?ɬ´r die zo’n beroemde naamgenoot heeft, Tigran L. Petrosian, heeft opnieuw aangetoond dat hij een van de allersterksten is op ICC door zijn tweede grote online qualfier van dit jaar te winnen. Petrosian, die eerder dit jaar Gata Kamsky versloeg en daarmee de Mainz qualifier won, versloeg deze keer GM Gadir Guseniov om opnieuw een volledig betaald tripje te winnen, ditmaal naar de Gibtelecom Master in Gibraltar, in januari 2008.[/lang_nl][lang_en]There must be something in the name after all. The young Armenian with the famous namesake, Tigran L. Petrosian, proved yet again he’s one of the top dogs on ICC after winning his second major online qualfier of the year. Petrosian, who beat Gata Kamsky earlier in the year to win the Mainz qualifier, this time beat GM Gadir Guseniov to win an all-expenses paid trip to the Gibtelecom Master in Gibraltar, coming up in January 2008.[/lang_en] Read more

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