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Chess Masterminds
New York vs St. Petersburg

A Distance-Chess match on July 10th pitted teams representing New York versus St Petersburg.  The event featured a match-up of two former world champions on Board One, Alexander Khalifman against 4-time Woman’s Champion Susan Polgar.  The match was won by St. Petersburg by a score of 6-2.

	Alexander Khalifman : Susan Polgar 1½ - ½
	Official Site
	Konstantin Sakaev : Alexander Onischuk 1 - 1
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	Evgeny Alekseev : Boris Gulko 1½ - ½
	Games in PGN
	Nikita Vitiugov : Alexander Stripunsky 2 - 0

The match will be the largest chess broadcast of all time, to 32 major US markets on broadcast Television July 24th.  Television commentators will be Paul Troung and Phil Innes, with GM Sam Palatnik managing simultaneous output from the very strong chess program Fritz.  Check local listings [also carried in TV Guide] for times and channels.  Now broadcast on the net to everyone in the world at www.martinbroadcasting.com at 11am CDT/ 12pm EDT, USA. The internet broadcast may be repeated, see site program listing.

The New York team in action.
 

The band, Bering Strait, plus some players.  Paul Troung is on the far left then Susan Polgar.
Far right is Alec Onishchuk, then Boris Gulko.

See also this Photo-report from Russian Chess.

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