Searching for the best women chess player in the world
The Accoona French-American Women’s Chess Championship in New York
City at The Russian Samovar, 1pm Thursday September 16, 2004
The World’s First Artificial Intelligence Search Engine, developed
by Accoona, launching on December 6, 2004
Press release
New York, NY 9/14/04 – Two of the World’s best women Chess Players
are set to face off in the ACCOONA French-American Women’s Chess Championship
on Thursday September 16, at the Russian Samovar*, in the heart of Times Square,
New York City.
French Champion, Almira Skripchenko, will meet American Champion,
Irina Krush, in this ACCOONA World Chess Championship Series
Match. The winner earns the right to challenge Zhu Chen, Women’s World
Champion from China, in the ACCOONA Women’s World Chess Championship
Finals, slated for December 7, 2004 at the ABC Television Times Square Studios.
The ACCOONA Championship Chess Matches are sanctioned by The New York City
Sports Commission, The Association of Chess Professionals, and The United States
Chess Federation. American Chess Master John Fernandez will serve as Arbiter
for the Championship Match.
ACCOONA announced today more exciting additions to its star-studded International
Chess event. Kenneth Podziba, New York City Sports Commissioner, will make
the ceremonial first move for the American Champion, and Deputy Cultural Counselor
Olivier Boasson of The French Embassy, will make the first move for the French
Champion. ACCOONA has also announced that two famous chess personalities, International
Master and Canadian Champion Pascal Charbonneau, and television personality
and writer Paul Hoffman, will be on hand to provide live move-by-move commentary
to the worldwide media, as the match is broadcast to millions of spectators
via the Internet at ACCOONA.com.
At 1pm, ACCOONA Executive Director Jonathan McCann will present the Chess
Champions and VIP guests to the media for Interviews and Photo Opportunities.
The Championship Match will begin at 2 pm. Complimentary Russian Food and Drink
will be served throughout the event.
Skripchenko (French Champion) vs. Krush (American Champion)
The match-up between Almira Skripchenko and Irina Krush is extremely close.
Irina is nominally six points stronger than Almira, but the French Champion
has more international titles and championship wins to her name.
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28-year-old Almira Skripchenko was recently
crowned French Champion, solidifying her status as the #1 woman player
in France. Skripchenko was crowned European Women’s Chess Champion
in 2001, and earlier this year won the first ever women’s chess super
tournament in Krasnoturinsk, Russia. Skripchenko has twice made it to the
quarterfinals of the World Championships. Just recently Almira won the
strongest women's chess tournament ever held, the North Urals Cup. |
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20-year-old Irina Krush is one of the
best American woman chess players of all time. She became the youngest
woman ever to compete in the US Women’s Chess Championship at age
11, and became the youngest ever to win the same event at the age of 14.
Krush has participated in several US Championships, and represented the
USA at both the Chess Olympiad and the Women’s World Chess Championship
on multiple occasions. Krush is currently the #1 rated female player in
the USA. |
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Women’s World Chess Champion from China, 28-year-old
Zhu Chen, rose to the pinnacle of the chess world in 2002
when she won the Women’s World Championship in Moscow. She has had
much success at the international level, winning the World Girls Under
12 championship and also winning the World Girls Under 20 championship
twice. She also became the first ever Woman’s World Champion to defeat
the reigning World Champion when she stunned Ruslan Ponomariov in Dubai
in 2002. Zhu Chen has represented China worldwide at the highest level. |
ACCOONA is launching the World’s First Artificial Intelligence Search
Engine that better understands the users’ queries through algorithms
that restate the queries based on sophisticated word permutations.
ACCOONA’S revolutionary Search Technology allows users to SuperTarget
their searches with improved relevancy and accuracy. www.ACCOONA.com is launching
December 6, 2004 in the US and China.
*The Russian Samovar is located at 256 W.52nd St. B/T Broadway and 8th Ave.
For Further Information: Please contact Jonathan McCann, jonathan@Accoona.com,
646.215.8124.
*Certain information discussed in this Press Release may constitute forward-looking
statements. Although Accoona believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give
no assurance that its expectations will be achieved.
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