GM Boris Alterman is 34, and lives in Israel. He was born
in Kharkov, Ukraine, where he started playing chess at the age of 7. His career
highlights include earning the IM title in 1991 and the GM title in 1992.He
is the winner of the following Open and GM tournaments: Haifa 1993; Bad Homburg
1996; Rishon LeZion 1996; Beijing 1995 and 1997; Munchen 1992. His hobbies
include computers and swimming, his favourite food is Chinese, he speaks fluent
Russian, Hebrew and English.

Boris Alterman playing a Kamikaze
Simul against eleven top computers in 2002
Boris has worked for and against Garry Kasparov. In 1999 he assisted the world
champion in his spectacular Microsoft match Kasparov vs The World, and was
also part of the team that built up the web portal Kasparov Chess. In 2003,
on the other hand, he was part of the Deep Junior team that gave Kasparov a
run for his money in the New
York match.
Invitation to the simul
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Boris Alterman will hold his simultaneous exhibition on
Mondays at 21:00h server time. You can find him in the "Simultaneous
Exhibitions" room of the Playchess.com server.
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Starting time is 21:00h CEST (European Central time = server
time, which translates to 17:00h GMT, 3:00 p.m. New York, 05:00 a.m. Sydney
(on Tuesday). Other time zones can be found at the bottom of the page.
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You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder,
Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or download a free
trial client.
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How
the Playchess Ducat system works
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is where you can buy ducats
Here are the world-wide starting times for Alterman's simultaneous exhibition.
* indicates that the place is currently observing daylight saving time (DST)