9/9/2010 – The countdown is under way: on September 10th, at 12:00 noon, in New York City,
the current number one ranked chess player in the world – will take on
the world. The match will take place online, and you can watch it on the special
RAW World Chess site and on Playchess.com.
The drawing of colours gave Magnus white. Yesterday he stopped in Amsterdam
for an appearance on Dutch TV.
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One Man vs The World
The challenge of pitting yourself and your skills against every other person
on the planet may be many people's worst nightmare ... but for Magnus Carlsen,
it's a dream.
On September 10th, in the penthouse of the Cooper Square Hotel in New York
City, 19-year-old Magnus – the current number one ranked chess player
in the world – will take on an online TEAM of global chess players led
by three Grandmasters: the 20-year-old Frenchman, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave; the
highest-ranked American in the world, Hikaru Nakamura; and the best female player
of all time, Hungarian Judlt Polgár. Start
time in your location...
Global chess fans (including yourself!) will be able to watch the game online
and vote on the moves suggested by the three GMs, with the consensus vote choosing
the next play against Magnus. Providing live feedback on the challenge will
be Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, with additional insight provided by chess legend
Garry Kasparov.
Rules of the game
Magnus Carlsen will be based in the Penthouse of the Cooper Square Hotel
in New York.
Magnus will play on a physical chessboard and have no access to external
support.
The three GMs supporting the World Team will be located in a different
location and will suggest their moves on a computer.
A butler, present in Magnus’s room, plays the chosen moves of the
World Team on Magnus’s physical chess board.
The only contact between Magnus and the three GMs will be through an arbiter,
who will assist both sides in the running of the challenge and rule on any
disputes.
The game will be played LIVE with strict time controls, as follows:
Magnus has 1 minute's thinking time per move.
When Magnus makes his move on his physical board, it stops his countdown
clock.
A game operator inputs this move into a computer, which reveals it to the
three GMs and the online audience, and triggers the GMs time clock.
The GMs now have 1 minute to determine their response.
When the GMs propose their counter move choices to the online viewers,
their countdown clock stops.
The online viewing public now has 1½ minutes to place their votes.
During this time, a commentary team discusses the three proposals, while
the computer counts the votes.
When the 1½ minutes are up, the most popular move is shown on the
online feed.
The butler in Magnus’s suite now plays that move on his physical board
on behalf of the World Team. As soon as this is completed, Magnus’s
clock reactivates and he has 1 minute to make his follow-up move.
If all 3 GMs propose the same next move, it gets made automatically without
an online vote.
Both Magnus and the World Team are allowed three ‘Extra Time’
periods. These grant them an additional 2 minutes' thinking time on a particular
move (giving a total of 3 minutes).
These are triggered by making a request to the arbiter, who will monitor
the additional time and the number of ‘Extra Time’ periods taken.
Special rules
1. Violation of the 1 minute rule:
If any player has not made his move within 60 seconds, that side automatically
loses 1 ‘Extra Time’ period. This allows them an additional
2 minutes thinking time on that particular move (giving a total of 3 minutes).
This continues until all 3 ‘Extra Time’ periods are used.
In the case of The World Team, this also happens regardless of which of
the 3 GM’s run out of time. This means that the same player could
use up all of The World Team’s ‘Extra Time’ periods.
If any side exceeds the 60 seconds and has no more ‘Extra Time’
periods left, that side loses the match.
2. Draw
Both parties can request a draw at any point during the match. In the event
of a draw offer by Magnus, the three GMs will discuss this verbally amongst
themselves – it will not be offered to the vote by the online World
Team. A majority decision by two GMs will decide acceptance or rejection of
the offer.
3. Two or three different moves with the same percentages
If two (or all three) of the GMs suggested moves receive exactly the same
percentage vote from the online World Team, the move with the greater physical
count number will be played. In the event that both (or all three) receive
exactly the same number of votes, the move that reached the vote number first
will be played.
Match commentary by GM Maurice Ashley
Reporting live from the event will be Jamaican-born grandmaster and chess
teacher
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Links
More information on the RAW World Chess Challenge can be found at http://rwcc.g-star.com/,
where fans can sign-up from September 5th onwards. The site also had live video
and audio from New York. The games will also be broadcast live and discussed
on Playchess.com.
Magnus on Dutch TV – with some very nice scenes from early childhood,
including a historic game, at 13,
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