ICC News Item #1710

NEWS 1710 (10-Aug-03)
Live Coverage of Chess Classic Mainz: Polgar, Anand, Leko, Svidler

The ICC broadcast team will be showing games from the Chess
Classic Mainz from Mainz, Germany, August 14-17.  The
Classic consists of two matches:

"The Duel: The King meets the Queen"
GM Viswanathan Anand - GM Judit Polgar

"The Final: Chess960 World Championship"
GM Peter Leko - GM Peter Svidler

Each match will be 8 games with a time control of 25 minutes
plus 10 seconds per move.

ICC 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 Mainz2003 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://www.chesstigers.de/ (German, English, French)

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