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Group( D ) & RANKS in W.L.C وترتيب مصرفى مشوار البطولة ( D) المجموعة Team (Egypt) 1 Team Macedonia 2 The Czech Republic team 3 Team Lithuania 4 Team Slovakia 5 Team Algeria 6 Team BULGARIA/Съединението прави силата/ 7 Team Finland 8 Team Iceland 9 Team Israel 10 Team Bangladesh 11 Team Wales 12 THAILAND TEAM 13 THE ALBANIANS 14

GROUP B Ranked :1 Team Russia 2 Team Romania 3 Team USA: Southwest 4 Team Portugal 5 Team Iran 6 Team Indonesia 7 Team USA: Northwest 8 Chess Team Holland 9 TEAM TURKEY 10 Team Brazil 11 Team China 中国队 12 Team Ireland Updated 28/11/2009 (dd/mm/yyyy) Details in : http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/group-b---main-forum GROUP C Ranked :1 Team Slovenija 2 Team Germany 4 Team Poland 3 Team France 5 Team Spain 8 Team Belgium 6 Team Croatia 7 Team Catalonia 9 Team Armenia 10 Team Latvia 11 Team Scotland 12 Team Mexico Updated 28/11/2009 (dd/mm/yyyy) Details in : http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/group-c---main-forum Group( D ) & RANKS in W.L.C وترتيب مصرفى مشوار البطولة ( D) المجموعةTeam (Egypt) 1 Team Macedonia 2 The Czech Republic team 3 Team Lithuania 4 Team Slovakia 5 Team Algeria 6 Team BULGARIA/Съединението прави силата/ 7 Team Finland 8 Team Iceland 9 Team Israel 10 Team Bangladesh 11 Team Wales 12 THAILAND TEAM 13 THE ALBANIANS 14 Updated 28/11/2009 (dd/mm/yyyy) Details in : http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/group-d---main-forum GROUP E Ranked1 Team Iraq فريق العراق2 Team Austria 3 Team Argentina 4 Team Nicaragua 5 Team Lebanon - الفريق اللبناني7 Team Belarus 8 Team Denmark 6 Team Uruguay 9 Team New Zealand 10 *_Team Uzbekistan_* Updated 28/11/2009 (dd/mm/yyyy) Details in : http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/group-e---main-forum

World Chess Cup Khanty Mansiysk 2009round 1 pairings After knowing the November 2009 ratings, the World Chess Federation has announced the pairings for the 2009 World Chess Cup in Khanty Mansiysk. More information about the competition at the World Cup preview and the official website. World Cup 2009 pairings and participants1 GM Gelfand, Boris ISR - IM Obodchuk, Andrei RUS 2 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE - IM Sarwat, Walaa EGY 3 GM Svidler, Peter RUS - IM Hebert, Jean CAN 4 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS - IM Abdel Razik, Khaled EGY 5 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE - IM Ezat, Mohamed EGY 6 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR - GM Bezgodov, Alexei RUS 7 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR - GM El Gindy, Essam EGY 8 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS - IM Sriram, Jha IND 9 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS - GM Rizouk, Aimen ALG 10 GM Wang, Yue CHN - GM Kabanov, Nikolai RUS 11 GM Eljanov, Pavel UKR - GM Al Sayed, Mohamad N. QAT 12 GM Karjakin, Sergey UKR - GM Rodriguez Vila, Andres URU 13 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE - GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 14 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP - GM Kunte, Abhijit IND 15 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB - GM Smerdon, David AUS 16 GM Movsesian, Sergei SVK - GM Yu, Yangyi CHN 17 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA - GM Yu, Shaoteng CHN 18 GM Alekseev, Evgeny RUS - IM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS 19 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS - GM Ivanov, Alexander USA 20 GM Wang, Hao CHN - GM Friedel, Joshua E USA 21 GM Navara, David CZE - GM Laylo, Darwin PHI 22 GM Malakhov, Vladimir RUS - GM Amin, Bassem EGY 23 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA - GM Nijboer, Friso NED 24 GM Rublevsky, Sergei RUS - GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan CHI 25 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO - IM Robson, Ray USA 26 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS - GM Hess, Robert L USA 27 GM Kamsky, Gata USA - GM Antonio, Rogelio Jr PHI 28 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS - GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND 29 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA - GM Adly, Ahmed EGY 30 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij GER - GM Hou, Yifan CHN 31 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN - GM Pelletier, Yannick SUI 32 GM Polgar, Judit HUN - GM Pavasovic, Dusko SLO 33 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU - GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU 34 GM Sargissian, Gabriel ARM - GM Li, Chao b CHN 35 GM Onischuk, Alexander USA - GM Flores, Diego ARG 36 GM Cheparinov, Ivan BUL - GM Kryvoruchko, Yuriy UKR 37 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR - GM Milos, Gilberto BRA 38 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR - GM Zhou, Weiqi CHN 39 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS - GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI 40 GM Tiviakov, Sergei NED - GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo VEN 41 GM Areshchenko, Alexander UKR - GM Corrales Jimenez, Fidel CUB 42 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND - GM L'Ami, Erwin NED 43 GM Smirin, Ilia ISR - GM Ehlvest, Jaan USA 44 GM Baklan, Vladimir UKR - GM Shabalov, Alexander USA 45 GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND - GM Filippov, Anton UZB 46 GM Fier, Alexandr BRA - GM Khalifman, Alexander RUS 47 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA - GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 48 GM Meier, Georg GER - GM Petrosian, Tigran L. ARM 49 GM Grachev, Boris RUS - GM Bartel, Mateusz POL 50 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA - GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB 51 GM Sokolov, Ivan NED - GM Fedorchuk, Sergey A. UKR 52 GM Milov, Vadim SUI - GM Negi, Parimarjan IND 53 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS - GM Leitao, Rafael BRA 54 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS - GM Gustafsson, Jan GER 55 GM Savchenko, Boris RUS - GM Shulman, Yuri USA 56 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS - GM Sandipan, Chanda IND 57 GM Tkachiev, Vladislav FRA - GM Le, Quang Liem VIE 58 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. RUS - GM Akobian, Varuzhan USA 59 GM So, Wesley PHI - GM Guseinov, Gadir AZE 60 GM Granda Zuniga, Julio E PER - GM Sakaev, Konstantin RUS 61 GM Laznicka, Viktor CZE - GM Papaioannou, Ioannis GRE 62 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS - GM Nyback, Tomi FIN 63 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE - GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN 64 GM Amonatov, Farrukh TJK - GM Volkov, Sergey RUS

تابع أخر المستجدات لبطولة العالم المفتوحة على موقع Follow the latest results of World Open Cup on WWW.CHESS.COM...By clicking on this Link : http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/world-open-cup-statement

أقرأ أخبار انطلاق بطولة المدن العربية السابعة للشطرنج الجيزة – مصر 24/10 – 2/11/2009أقرأ تفاصيل بطولة المدن العربية السابعة للشطرنج فى الجروب World City Of Chess وكذلك اشنرك فيه لكى تقرأ كل جديد عن العرب والعالم http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/content409 المصدر :http://www.arabfide.com

Hungarian Opening Thematic Tournament! Would you like to earn a GM, IM, or FM title and/or a FIDE rating? If so, click the following link for information and details: TD: Illuminatus Starts ASAP Registered: 13 of 64 Time Control: 3 days/move Max Group Size: 4 Rating Range: Open # Advance: 2 Tie Breaks: Yes Points Available: 558 Games Rated: Yes You will play ~3 simultaneous games(one game per opponent starts immediately) JOIN TOURNAMENT! Recent Registrantsview all 13 registrants whistleblower (1695) Skoumal69 (2216) DonVito (1423) greipsson (1409) crock01 (1774) dommo (1795) Allon48 (1386) uldis (1667) 71Moomin666 (1775) mircea_1956 (1862) da_shreddy (2305) bobykiller (1570) tgyopela (2251) Welcome to the Hungarian Opening Thematic Tournament, in honor of Mr. Laszlo Nagy (mrfirstsaturday), organizer of the First Saturday chess tournaments in Budapest, Hungary! 64 players will compete in this exciting round-robin, knock-out, thematic tournament, featuring the Hungarian Opening: 1 g3 Click the following link to sign up: Would you like to earn a GM, IM, or FM title and/or a FIDE rating? If so, click the following link for information and details: In addition, you are cordially invited to join the First Saturday Budapest Chess tournament fans group: If you have any questions, or need assistance, please let me know. Meanwhile, have fun and thanks for your participation! Sincerely, Charles Frey (Illuminatus) Tournament Director Hungarian Opening Thematic Tournament

جدول المواعيد والدول التى سوف تلعب مصرمعها فى الجولات القادمةفى الدورى العالمى مع اللون الذى يحدد درجة العقوبة الموقعة عليها كالأتى :- وهو ROUND 8bis: October 16, 2009 October 21, 20091- Egypt Vs Algeriahttp://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=20103 ROUND 9: October 22, 2009 October 29, 20092- Slovakia Vs Egypt ROUND 10: November 19, 2009 November 23, 20093- Thailand Vs Egypt ROUND 11: December 17, 2009 December 21, 2009 4- Egypt Vs Albania

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/teams-warning-status kokino wrote : ( This is the list of teams under severe or repetitive warning on rules or timing failure. I am not looking for controversy nor to chase especific groups, it is simply that those teams in the list have showed a lack of respect for the rules and little interest in solving the situations in repetitive ROUNDS and with defined rules. When a team match is not issued and/or we try to communicate with the respective TL with no reply from their side I may understand: 1. They don't want to play in the WL anymore. 2. The Team Leaders representing that country are not competent enough for that position. (Maybe they don't understand the language or don't know how basic Chess.com features work) But what we cannot do from the WL organisation is to spend hours and hours chasing everyone. I am, and always be, available for any question and/or clarification of the rules or chess.com features... but the only thing we can ask in exchange is a really, really little co-operation in order to make the tournament possible. So, from TODAY I will implement this easy chart: GREEN: Teams in green. Regular status of teams playing and cooperating correctly. Acording to timing and rules No problem at all. Most of the teams are here. YELLOW: Teams in yellow. 1st. Warning for a severe rules or timing failing. You have been warned once. You should take inmediate actions in order to fix the problem causing that status and go back to green asap. ORANGE: Teams in orange. 2nd. Warning and not actions taken for the first warning. Or very repetitive failures. You should take all the actions in your hand in order to redirect the situation. You are under severe warning and no further mistakes will be allowed. RED: Teams in red. No corrective actions taken at all, and no solution possible with current contacts/ teams. Your team is not allowed to continue in the WL under the current conditions. Possible actions: - To change all the SAdmins/Admins in that group (with Chess.com staff support) - To define an alternative official Team replacing completely the previous one. UPDATED: 17/10/2009 RED STATUS ORANGE STATUS YELLOW STATUS GREEN STATUS All other teams Team New Zealand Team Iceland Team USA: Northeast THAILAND TEAM Team Armenia Team USA: SouthWest Team China 中国队 Team Germany Team Finland Grey Backgroud means illegal roster.)

Wandering King Opening Tournament! TD: Illuminatus Starts ASAP Registered: 40 of 64 Time Control: 3 days/move Max Group Size: 4 Rating Range: Open # Advance: 2 Tie Breaks: Yes Points Available: 592 Games Rated: Yes You will play ~3 simultaneous games(one game per opponent starts immediately) JOIN TOURNAMENT! Recent Registrantsview all 40 registrants Sharsan (1701) DonVito (1423) koge (2102) Ricardo33 (1917) marcelom2 (1330) HungarianKnight (1661) artekmk (1908) artrice (1444) gram77x (1470) ahmadramli (2111) FAIR_GAME (1515) mgrecco (1808) Longdiagonal43 (1551) malins (1846) Macondo64 (1370) Chequemateking (1568) angelor (1517) mircea_1956 (1862) Allon48 (1386) Turk_chess_player (1843) Welcome to the Wandering King Opening Tournament, organized by Chess Association! http://www.chess.com/tournament/wandering-king-opening-tournament 64 players will compete in this exciting round-robin, knock-out, thematic tournament, featuring an opening that most chess experts and masters consider to be unsound and inferior. Do you have what it takes to be the last wandering king standing? The Wandering King Opening - 1 f3?! e5 2 Kf2? d5 3 Kg3? This has actually been played a few times against respectable players on various internet chess servers. It isn't any good though! 1 f3?! e5 2. Kf2? d5 3 Kg3? Nf6 4 Kf2 (4 d4?? Nh5+ 5 Kf2 Qh4+ 6 g3 Nxg3 7 hg Qxh1-+; 4 e4?? Nh5+ 5 Kf2 Qh4+ 6 g3 Nxg3 7 hg Qxh1-+; 4 e3?? [can't you guess?!] 4... Nh5+ 5 Kf2 Qh4+ 6 g3 Nxg3 7 hg Qxh1-+; 4 Nh3? Nh5+ 5 Kf2 Bxh3 6 gxh3 Qh4+ 7 Kg1 Bc5+ 8. e3 Nc6 9. Nc3 0-0-+) 4 ... Bc5+ 5 e3 d4! 6 Qe2 (6 Bc4?? de+ 7 de?? Qxd1--++) 6... Nc6 when black must be clearly better. Black's lead in development, space advantage, and white's misplaced king should leave black almost winning. http://www.angelfire.com/nf/chess/Rubbish.html Barnes Opening or Gedult's Opening is a chess opening in which White opens with 1 f3 which is considered an irregular opening, so it is classified under the A00 code in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings. The opening is named after Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825–1874), an English player who had an impressive eight wins over Paul Morphy, including one game in which Barnes answered 1 e4 with 1...f6, known as Barnes Defense. Of the twenty possible legal first moves, 1 f3 is considered to be the worst one. The move does attack a central square, e4, but if this is the summit of White's ambition in the centre, which it should not be, 1 d3 (the Mieses Opening) or even 1 Nc3 (the Dunst Opening) are better ways, although both of these opening moves are considered rather passive. 1 f3 does nothing for development, indeed it actually hinders White's development because it robs the knight of the f3 square. In addition 1 f3 weakens the king's position needlessly. Since 1 f3 is a poor move, it is not played often. Nonetheless, it is probably not the rarest opening move. Some players play this move, somewhat arrogantly, as a way of saying something like "I can play anything against you". After 1 f3 e5 some players even continue with the nonsensical 2 Kf2, which is sometimes called the Wandering King Opening, The Hammerschlag, or the Pork Chop Opening. One example of this was Simon Williams against Martin Simons in the last round of the British championship tournament in 1999 when Williams had nothing to play for. Refutation of 1 f3 is not an easy task. Black can easily secure an advantage by advancing his central pawns, grabbing control of the centre, and rapidly developing his pieces. However, converting this to a win is tougher, and in most games featuring 1 f3, White "wakes up" and starts playing sensibly after a few moves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Opening Have fun and thanks for your participation! Sincerely, Illuminatus Group Leader Chess Association

Mediterranean Vote League #1 Forums > Mediterranean League HQ Reply 1st October 2009, 12:02pm #1 by johanpalmaerÅkarp Sweden Member Since: Sep 2008Member Points: 5484 THESE ARE THE RULES and some items may change before the tournament starts. PERIODICALLY CHECK THIS TOPIC! The Mediterranean Vote League #1 will start officially on Saturday October 3, after which, no changes allowed. General Rules of the Mediterranean Vote League #1 1. Definition: Mediterranean League is a tournament played by the Mediterranean Groups with 12 ranked teams. MVL#1 will start on Saturday October 3, 2009 and should last approximately within 6 months. 2. Paired Groups: The pairing board teams are made by the ranking on basis each team's number of members multiplied with average rating, according to data taken at October 1, 2009. 3. Methodology: ROUND-1 (semifinal): 3 groups á 4 teams. Group winners goes to ROUND 2 . Schedule: October-December 2009. ROUND-2 (final): 1 group 3 groups. Group winner is the Champion!Prel. schedule: Januari-March 2010. 4. Match challenges and group classification: All groups, team challenges and dates will be determined by pairing established. A guideline for each round that describe this more in detail will be send to the teams before the round starts. After the date of the public pairing has 7 days to accept the challenges. If a team refuses to play or does not meet these dates will miss the game with a score of 5-0. The group will make challenges, with the following characteristics: "MVL#1 Round1: TEAM A vs TEAM B" /standard / 3 days move Victory will count as 10 points, lost as 0, and a draw (in case of) 5. The group winners are the teams that:in first hand - has the most points in each groupin second hand - if two teams have the same points, the one who won the game between them, otherwise the team that was best ranked before the tournament started.5. The general rules and recommendations: All questions, complaints, suggestions or ideas for improvement should be sent to the Mediterranean League HQ." Any changes in team names or other information affecting the proper functioning of this championship, should be reported immediately! 2 directors of each participating team in the league are encouraged to join this Mediterranean League HQ. Check the forums regularly for updates. 1st October 2009, 12:10pm #2 by johanpalmaerÅkarp Sweden Member Since: Sep 2008Member Points: 5484 Paired Groups Group A Rank Country Team Responsible Number of members Average rating Team Rating 1 Team Greece aristeidis9 496 1514 751 4 Team Slovenija dean_slo 162 1694 274 7 Team Algeria pino2003fr 156 1381 215 10 Team Tunisia souissi 29 1482 43 Group B Rank Country Team Responsible Number of members Average rating Team Rating 2 Team Italy chiccogiancarlo 371 1595 592 5 Team Croatia Defacto 142 1623 230 8 Team Egypt mitto 89 1711 152 11 Team Jordan Basel 15 1366 20 Group C Rank Country Team Responsible Number of members Average rating Team Rating 3 Team Portugal Marinho 155 1664 258 6 Serbian Group neb-c 144 1634 235 9 Team Bosnia-Herzegovina The Transporter 112 1625 182 12 Team MonteNegro dusantomic 13 1425 19 This forum topic has been locked.

Chess Association - Arabia International Date Formed: 2009-08-29 09:34:22# of Members: 2 Super Admin(s): Charles_Frey Avg. Rating: 2098Top Rated Players: mitto (2107), Charles_Frey (2088) Matches in Progress: 0Vote Chess in Progress: 0

تلاحظ وجود فرق متشابهة فى المسمى والمعنى وهذا التكـــــــــرار لايفيد اللآعبين الأعضاء فيها بل يضرهم وأذا أردت أن تعرف مالفرق بينهم فلتنظر الى مؤسس ومنشىء هذه الفرق وأنت سوف تعرف هل هذه الفرقة تستحق الأنضمام أم لا.....واليك على سبيل المثال لاالحصر -African and Middle Eastern Unoin & Team EMEA & Team Middle East - Gaza & Free GAZA - ☸ People of Islam ☸ & ISLAM TEAM ISLAM - Fast And Furious & FAST Play... Complete the Game NOW! & Rapid Chess Fast Players Group International Chess Players & International Team & International Chess Team - AFRICAN Team & NORTH AFRICA - Team Africa & THE AFRICAN CHESS PLAYERS TEAM We Chat Africa - Global Chess & Global Men - We Chat Global هذا التواجد الذى ليس له داعى فى فرق كثيرة دون دراسة يحرمك مستقبلا من اللعب والأشتراك اذا ما تقابل فريقين أنت عضو فيهما معـــأ فهل هذا يجوز أو شىء جميل فأذا صار لدينــــــا البديل المصرى من جميع أنواع الفرق وكذلك الأنسان المصرى الذى يمثلك ويمثل مصر والعرب فى الفرق الأخـــــــرى فهـــــــذا يفيدك لو لديك مشكلة لاقدر الله فى المستقبل Please,Put freely your comments !!!

Now , Muslims celebrate Ramadan month;يحتفل المسلمون فى كل عام بشهر رمضان بالصيام عن الطعام والشراب منذ طلوع الفجر الى غروب الشمس fasting from sunrise to sunset! Happy ,peaceful and new Month and year to all Arabs and Muslim Chess Players in every where النادى المصرى للشطرنج! hope All Arabic and Muslim Countriesa month full of more believing , more success and more interior peace with Allah & self and more enjoying playing chess games in Chess.com ويتمنى النادى لجميع الأعضاء شهرا مباركا على الأمة الأسلامية أعاده الله على المسلمين والأ قباط باليمن والبركات

Mr Kawazaki,the leader group of Team (Egypt) has created new Egyptian Tournment under name Pharaohs Land ( Rate 1200 - 1800) . it is opend for any one either Egyptians or any other players in chess.com. it consists of 100 players . you can read details in this link : http://www.chess.com/tournament/pharaohs-land

نرحب بمجلس ادارة الـنـا دى المصـــــــــرى للشطرنج الذى يفتح بابه للمصريين وكل العرب لكى نسجل فيه أخبـــار مبارياتنا وبطولات العرب المنتظرة والتى نود أقامتها فالنادى شبه منتدى مصرى عربى لنتحاور وندعم بعضنا بعضا بالأخبار وكل ماهو جديد فى عالم اللعبة ولــــــذا نرجـــــو من الأعضــــــــاء المنتدبيين لرئاســـــــــة النادى دعوة الزملاء من اللاعبين المصريين والعرب وكل الأدمن للفرق العربية ليشاركونا أرائهم ومقترحـــــــاتهم وأمــــــــالهم وطموحــــاتهم وكذلك لعقد الأتفاقيات بشأن اقــــامة المباريات الوديــــــــــــة بين الفرق العربية - العربية والعربية - المصرية ونرجو لكم جميـــــــعا التوفيق وحسن التعاون والتنسيق