PRO Chess League - PLAYOFFS Preview: San Jose Hackers vs. Webster Windmills
TODAY at 6:50 PM PST, the San Jose Hackers will take on the Webster Windmills In the Divisional Semifinals! There will be substitutions aplenty for both teams, with San Jose using 8 different players and Webster using 9 (!), with a total of 11 GMs playing in the match. The exact pairings for all four rounds can be viewed here.
As usual, I'll be streaming the match live on Twitch, this time with a special guest for the first round: GM Elshan Moradiabadi! At half-time, my two regular guests will join the broadcast: NM Christopher Yoo & NM Teemu Virtanen.
Make sure to tune into the match and root for the Hackers!
The San Jose Hackers are a professional chess team in the Pacific Division of the PRO Chess League, sponsored by Bay Area Chess. To connect with the Hackers, please visit our Facebook, Twitter, and Official Site.
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IM Kostya Kavutskiy is a professional chess author, journalist, coach, commentator, and player. As a part of Chess.com's content team since 2009, Kostya has recorded many video lectures, covered elite tournaments, written instructive articles & blogs, and has done many live commentary shows for Chess TV. Kostya has also written a number of articles for Chess Life magazine and Chess Life Online, and is currently an instructor for Chess University. In 2015, Modernized: The Open Sicilian was released, which Kostya co-authored with IM Zhanibek Amanov. Kostya's tournament accomplishments include winning the 2014 Southern California Closed Championship, as well as achieving his IM title in November 2016. In April 2017, he placed 6th in the star-studded 2017 Reykjavik Open. He currently resides in Mountain View, CA, and his plans are to pursue the GM title while working actively as a coach.