Author: Wybe Koopmans
Date: 04:47:12 09/18/99
The REBEL vs Lithuania event is a very special one. REBEL CENTURY will play against the top of the Baltijos Lyga chess club (located in Lithuania) on 4 boards. The event will be broadcasted on Lithuania radio and televison. The four games are scheduled on Saturday September 18, 1999 and can be followed live on the Rebel home page and the ICC. Baltijos Lyga information 1. Darius Ruzele GM 2515 2. Oleg Krivonosov IM 2432 3. Antanas Zapolskis IM 2399 4. Virginijus Grabliauskas IM 2466 Comments from the chairman Marijus Kulvietis of the Baltijos Lyga chess club: The players will play in the same positions for my club as in the Lithuanian team tournament. Thus battle vs Rebel I accept as any battle in team tournament vs another strong team. Thus players are located in board positions not by ratings or other criterias , but in such order as I count better to place them in team tournament. The game vs Rebel team will look as simple match in a serious team tournament. All 4 players will come at scheduled time to a restaurant in the center of Vilnius (our capital). They will sit near the wooden tournament boards and near the simple clocks. "Sony" centrum in Vilnius will make possible to show all 4 games be seen in the street and visitors will be free to enter and see playing players. TV and radio will shot and record reports from the match. The public will have free beer from our sponsors,all visitors who will come to see the games. Players will make moves and will think near wooden boards and internet company who will prepare computers in the playing place will make service-their workers will repeat simply mechanichally the moves on computers together with an arbiter and will make Rebel moves hitting the clock after this will be done in icc from Rebel side. So it will be done as a close imitation of a real human tournament. The players will come as to such. Also public perfomance and advertising and such system will not allow players to talk or to help each other in any other way. They will be simply sitting near the boards. Getting the moves from Rebel, brought by computers assistants and thinking. Audience, chessfans and journalists will watch their behaviour together with a referee and sponsors. My goal is to show real strengh of our local club cast and possibilities in such conditions. I will not try to prepare my players some specially for anti-Rebel game...They are professionals and I want them to be ready to show what they can. The game is scheduled on Saturday September 18, 10:00 New York / 16:00 Amsterdam time. The time control is 40 moves in 2 hours and then one hour for the rest of the game so a game can not take longer than 6 hours. Move transmission via the Internet Chess Club It should be guaranteed that all players can not lose on time due to problems (time loss) with the move transmission over the net. These games are meant to give some light on the current state of art of the on-going Man versus Machine event and should reflect a normal face-to-face event. more info: http://www.rebel.nl/gmspec.htm Wybe
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