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All Nations Chess League (ANCL)

ANCL is one of the largest on line chess league; we play 90+5 slow matches,
we have our own rooms at playchess.com. The league is free to join.
All participants in the ANCL must have a full Playchess account (including a serial number), 20 slow games and a rank of knight or higher. Any player who has previously been found using assistance in rated games will be refused entrance to participate in the ANCL league.
we have a main site and a forum, at present there are 14 teams from all over the world, each team can have up to 12 members usually a captain and 1 or 2 vice captains.
Each week a line up of 6 players is made by captain to play against another team.
You then if chosen any given week, (you may well not play every week), use ANCL forum to arrange your match with your opponent agreeing on a time and day to play,
Also at ANCL we have a teaching school,simuls or lessons are given at playchess usually in room 5, where your participation /questions would be welcomed and answered, Lessons usually last for an hour each time, unless the teachers get so enthralled at the Questions they lose track of time.

All the above and more details can be seen at
Main site http://anclchess.net/
If anyone is interested and would like to join us, please do, it takes around 5-7 days to be accepted, please use your playchess nick when registering as user name. Once accepted you will then be added to forum site http://anclchess.net/forum/index.php

mercredi 7 avril 2010

Remembering Smyslov

Smyslov Vassily born 24th march 1921 died a few days ago from heart failure the  27 th March 2010 was world champion from 1957 to 1958.He was a great positional player very good in endings who played 3 world championships against Botvinnik (the latter wrote a book called 3 matches!)he tied the first 12-12 in 1954 and Botvinnik keep the title.In 1957 Smyslov took the tittle 12.5-9.5 becoming the 7 th world champion in the history of chess.  Next year Botvinnik took back the tittle 12.5-10.5.Amazingly in 1983 at the age of 62 he went to the candidate semi final losing only to Kasparov .
A variation of the Ruy Lopez is namedafter him:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 h6.
I once meet Smyslov not behind a chess board but simply in a shop in Paris I remember a very tall man wearing a green coat,probably knowing he was World Champion made him a giant in my young eyes.


Smyslov-Tal (1-0)

Vassily was also an Opera Tenor .Very impressive in our time of specialists.


Author javel At 05:49

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