The Mainz Attraction II

The Mainz Attraction II

Are you ready to do the shuffle again? No, not a Van McCoy retro disco theme-night but instead a Chess960 shuffle of the major pieces on the back-rank, as favored by former world champion Bobby Fischer! ICC is pleased to announce we're collaborating yet again with Chess Tigers, organizers of the popular annual Mainz Chess Classic in Germany, for a 2nd Chess 960 Internet Qualifier for the FiNet and Ordix opens. And we're building on the big success of last year's tourney by adding onto the human qualifier a new computer qualifier for the Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship. There will be four qualifiers to the finals on ICC, running June 17th-22nd. No preregistration is necessary. This event is only open to ICC members and to those who sign up for a free trial 7-day membership of the ICC - so don't delay, sign-up at www.chessclub.com today! You can play in as many qualifiers as you like, and the dates will be:

- Qualifier 1: Tuesday, June 17, 6pm EDT
- Qualifier 2: Wednesday, June 18, 3pm EDT
- Qualifier 3: Thursday, June 19, 2pm EDT
- Qualifier 4: Friday, June 20, 4pm EDT

- Finals: Sunday, June 22, 3pm EDT

And the main prizes we have on offer to one of the world's biggest and best tournaments include:

HUMAN SECTION

- 1st prize: $630 (400 Euro) + Free entry to FiNet and Ordix + Hotel and breakfast at Mainz
- 2nd prize: $470 (300 Euro) + Free entry to FiNet and Ordix + Hotel and breakfast at Mainz
- 3rd/4th prize: $157 (100 Euro) + Free entry to FiNet and Ordix
- 5th-8th prize: 1 year ICC membership extension
- 9th-16th prize: 3 months ICC membership extension

COMPUTER SECTION

- 1st prize: $470 (300 Euro) + a place in the Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship + Hotel and breakfast at Mainz
- 2nd prize: $313 (200 Euro) + a place the in Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship + Hotel and breakfast at Mainz

Full details of all the rules and conditions for this exclusive qualifier for ICC members can be found here.

Aerosvit 2008

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing proved to be a big hit for Aerosmith. And you certainly won't want to miss a thing here at ICC with our live coverage of Aerosvit 2008, running 7th-20th June in Foros, Ukraine.

The impressive line-up in Foros for this extremely strong elite event includes: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Peter Svidler (Russia), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Alexei Shirov (Spain), Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine), Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia), Evgeny Alekseev (Russia), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine), Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania), Loek Van Wely (Netherlands) and Alexander Onischuk (USA).

ICC Chess.FM will have a live relay of Aerosvit 2008 (starting at 08:00am EDT) and a GOTD service throughout, hosted by GMs Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen and Ronen Har-Zvi.

ICC: Foros08
Aerosvit 2008 official site

Regular ICC Events

ICC Newsletter XXII-2008 June 6 In this issue: The Mainz Attraction II, AeroSvit 2008, Are You A Member of the USCF?, Chess.FM videos, and the ICC Store.

All events are free to ICC members unless noted. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Add 5 hours for GMT. Add 6 hours for CET.

Saturday, June 07 00:45 Tournament Sleepless - 3 tourneys - 5 rounds of 3 0 07:00 Tournament Early Morning - 3 1, 7 rounds 09:30 Webcast India with Arvind Aaron 12:00 Tournament Monthly Standard (15 5, 3 rounds) 13:00 Tournament League Of Losers 13:00 Simul 30 60 ch 3 IM Vojislav Milanovic 16:00 Tournament Bullet (1 0, 10 rounds) 19:00 Tournament Blitz 1200-1800 (2 6, 7 rounds) 19:00 Tournament Blitz Under 1300 (2 6, 5 rounds) 20:00 Simul manest 30 30 - 30 boards ch 3 23:00 Tournament Nightly O1500 (5 0, 7 rounds) 23:00 Tournament Nightly U1500 (2 6, 7 rounds) View this week's entire event list