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Press ICC hosts online U.S. State Champion of Champions Tournament
Press ICC hosts online U.S. State Champion of Champions Tournament | ICC hosts online U.S. State Champion of Champions Tournament |
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| By John Henderson | |
| March 17, 2009 | |
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Internet Chess Club, in conjunction with the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, sponsors of the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship, and the United States Chess Federation is pleased to announce details of the upcoming 2009 U.S. State ‘Champion of Champions’ online tournament, the winner of which will go forward to play in the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship, May 7th through 17th in St. Louis, MO.
State
champions from Alaska through California to Hawaii and from Maine
through to New York and Florida will come together as one over the
internet on Saturday, March 28th at chessclub.com
for this unique online tournament, with the four qualifying conference
winners going forward to the knockout finals on the weekend of April
4th-5th.
Apart
from the attraction of one of the final spots up for grabs at what
promises to be a memorable U.S. Chess Championship, in a spectacular
new setting and with a prize fund exceeding $130,000, the winner will
also receive the title of State Champion of Champions, a round trip
ticket to St. Louis and a glass trophy designed by The Stained Glass Store of Des Moines, Idaho.
ICC
has organized and sponsored this tournament four times now with great
success on each occasion. Not only has it proved to be a popular event
with all the players, but it also ably demonstrates that online chess
and over-the-board chess can indeed be a perfect mix. “We have always
looked at ways of bringing the virtual world of ICC into the real world
of tournament chess,” commented ICC President Joel Berez. “And thanks
to this perfect symbiosis with our partners at the St. Louis Chess Club
and USCF, the State Champion of Champions event helps us work further
towards that goal.”
Full rules and regulations for the U.S. State Champion of Champions tournament can be found here: www.chessclub.com/activities/
Further information:
John B. Henderson
ICC Director of Chess Content
Tel: 847-347-9593
E-mail: [email protected]
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