ICC News Item #1634

NEWS 1634 (5-Sep-02)
Live Coverage on ICC of Russia vs. Rest of World

The Chessclub.com broadcast team will be showing games from the
Russia versus the Rest of the World Match from Moscow, September
8-11.  The match will be 10 rounds of rapid chess.  The Russian
team will be led by Kasparov and Kramnik.  The World team will be
led by Anand and Ponomariov.

Chessclub.com members are welcome to "observe" the games and
"whisper" comments with the other spectators. finger Live
on ICC will give you specific information about the game numbers to
observe. finger RussiaWorld2002 for results, standings, and other
information.  The games will also be listed in the Event List in
Blitzin, where you can click on the icon to watch while they are
in progress.

The official web page for the event is 

http://fideonline.com/news.asp?id=40

There were two USSR vs rest of the world matches in 1970 and 1984
finger USSR-World1970 and finger USSR-World1984  for the ICC
accounts for those events.

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