Play in a simul against Boris Alterman
4/26/2004 – Every Monday GM Boris Alterman will play a simultaneous exhibition on the
Playchess.com server. For a price of
20 Ducats you can take on the former advisor to Garry Kasparov. That translates
to just over two dollars – quite reasonable for the opportunity to
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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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Here are the world-wide starting times for Alterman's simultaneous exhibition.
| Abu Dhabi | Mon 23:00 | Halifax * | Mon 16:00 | New Orleans * | Mon 14:00 | ||
| Addis Ababa | Mon 22:00 | Hanoi | Tue 02:00 | New York * | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Adelaide | Tue 04:30 | Harare | Mon 21:00 | Odesa * | Mon 22:00 | ||
| Aden | Mon 22:00 | Havana * | Mon 15:00 | Oslo * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Aklavik * | Mon 13:00 | Helsinki * | Mon 22:00 | Ottawa * | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Algiers | Mon 20:00 | Hong Kong | Tue 03:00 | Paris * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Amman * | Mon 22:00 | Honolulu | Mon 09:00 | Perth | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Amsterdam * | Mon 21:00 | Houston * | Mon 14:00 | Philadelphia * | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Anadyr * | Tue 08:00 | Indianapolis | Mon 14:00 | Phoenix | Mon 12:00 | ||
| Anchorage * | Mon 11:00 | Islamabad | Tue 00:00 | Prague * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Ankara * | Mon 22:00 | Istanbul * | Mon 22:00 | Rangoon | Tue 01:30 | ||
| Antananarivo | Mon 22:00 | Jakarta | Tue 02:00 | Reykjavik | Mon 19:00 | ||
| Asuncion | Mon 15:00 | Jerusalem * | Mon 22:00 | Rio de Janeiro | Mon 16:00 | ||
| Athens * | Mon 22:00 | Johannesburg | Mon 21:00 | Riyadh | Mon 22:00 | ||
| Atlanta * | Mon 15:00 | Kabul | Mon 23:30 | Rome * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Baghdad * | Mon 23:00 | Kamchatka * | Tue 08:00 | San Francisco * | Mon 12:00 | ||
| Bangkok | Tue 02:00 | Karachi | Tue 00:00 | San Juan | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Barcelona * | Mon 21:00 | Kathmandu | Tue 00:45 | San Salvador | Mon 13:00 | ||
| Beijing | Tue 03:00 | Khartoum | Mon 22:00 | Santiago | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Beirut * | Mon 22:00 | Kingston | Mon 14:00 | Santo Domingo | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Belgrade * | Mon 21:00 | Kiritimati | Tue 09:00 | Sao Paulo | Mon 16:00 | ||
| Berlin * | Mon 21:00 | Kolkata | Tue 00:30 | Seattle * | Mon 12:00 | ||
| Bogota | Mon 14:00 | Kuala Lumpur | Tue 03:00 | Seoul | Tue 04:00 | ||
| Boston * | Mon 15:00 | Kuwait City | Mon 22:00 | Shanghai | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Brasilia | Mon 16:00 | Kyiv * | Mon 22:00 | Singapore | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Brisbane | Tue 05:00 | La Paz | Mon 15:00 | Sofia * | Mon 22:00 | ||
| Brussels * | Mon 21:00 | Lagos | Mon 20:00 | St. John's * | Mon 16:30 | ||
| Bucharest * | Mon 22:00 | Lahore | Tue 00:00 | St. Paul * | Mon 14:00 | ||
| Budapest * | Mon 21:00 | Lima | Mon 14:00 | Stockholm * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Buenos Aires | Mon 16:00 | Lisbon * | Mon 20:00 | Suva | Tue 07:00 | ||
| Cairo | Mon 21:00 | London * | Mon 20:00 | Sydney | Tue 05:00 | ||
| Canberra | Tue 05:00 | Los Angeles * | Mon 12:00 | Taipei | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Cape Town | Mon 21:00 | Madrid * | Mon 21:00 | Tallinn * | Mon 22:00 | ||
| Caracas | Mon 15:00 | Managua | Mon 13:00 | Tashkent | Tue 00:00 | ||
| Casablanca | Mon 19:00 | Manila | Tue 03:00 | Tegucigalpa | Mon 13:00 | ||
| Chatham Island | Tue 07:45 | Melbourne | Tue 05:00 | Tehran * | Mon 23:30 | ||
| Chicago * | Mon 14:00 | Mexico City * | Mon 14:00 | Tokyo | Tue 04:00 | ||
| Copenhagen * | Mon 21:00 | Minneapolis * | Mon 14:00 | Toronto * | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Darwin | Tue 04:30 | Minsk * | Mon 22:00 | Vancouver * | Mon 12:00 | ||
| Denver * | Mon 13:00 | Montevideo | Mon 16:00 | Vienna * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Detroit * | Mon 15:00 | Montgomery * | Mon 14:00 | Vladivostok * | Tue 06:00 | ||
| Dhaka | Tue 01:00 | Montreal * | Mon 15:00 | Warsaw * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Dublin * | Mon 20:00 | Moscow * | Mon 23:00 | Washington DC * | Mon 15:00 | ||
| Edmonton * | Mon 13:00 | Mumbai | Tue 00:30 | Wellington | Tue 07:00 | ||
| Frankfurt * | Mon 21:00 | Nairobi | Mon 22:00 | Winnipeg * | Mon 14:00 | ||
| Geneva * | Mon 21:00 | Nassau * | Mon 15:00 | Zagreb * | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Guatemala | Mon 13:00 | New Delhi | Tue 00:30 | Zürich * | Mon 21:00 |
* indicates that the place is currently observing daylight saving time (DST)
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