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CHESS MASTERMINDS SITE ACTIVATION FORUM
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| Chess Masterminds now has a forum set up:
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Rob
Rob wrote:
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> CITY TV Station Channle #
> Boston WLVI WB 56
> Philadelphia WPPX-PAX 61
> Washington, D.C. WDCN-UPN 20
> Baltimore WBFF-FOX 45
> Norfolk WTVZ- WB 33
> Winston-Salem-Durham WLFL-WB 22
> Memphis WHBQ-UPN 16
> Jackson WJKT-UPN 16
> Nashville WUXP-UPN 30
> Tampa WTTA- WB 38
> New Orleans WXPL-IND 49
> Houston KKXH-UPN 26
> Austin KAAB-UPN 29
> Dallas KPXP-PAX 68
> Pittsburgh WCWB-WB 22
> Columbus WTTE- FOX(ABC) 28
> Indianapolis WIPX-PAX 63
> Twin-Cities KSTC-NBC 45
> St. Louis KPCX-NBC 50
> Denver KPAX-PAX 59
> Kansas City KCWG-UPN 62
> Phoenix KPPX-PAX 51
> San Francisco KKPX-PAX 65
> San Diego KSWB-WB 69
> Portland KPXG-PAX 22
> Seattle KIRO-ABC 23
> Buffalo, NY WGRZ-NBC 45
> Chicago WJXS-IND 62
> Dayton WRGT-FOX(ABC) 45
> Louisville WBKI-WB 7
> New York WRNN-IND 48
> Lexington WBKI-WB 17
> LA WPNX-IND 30
> San Jose WPNX-IND 30
> Oakland WPNX-IND 30
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> City Web Site
> Boone, NC www.boonetv.com www.winstonsalem-tv.com
> www.greensboro-tv.com
> Moreno Valley, CA www.inlandempiretv.com
> www.breedersusatv.com
> Omaha, NE www.omahaonlinetv.com
> Columbus., Ohio www.columbusohioitv.com
> Toledo, OH www.weuptv.com www.w3ctv.com www.jpztv.com www.wzztv.com
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> www.koktv.com www.wjbtv.com
> San Marino, CA www.tvcal.com www.tvcali.com www.tvsocal.com
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> Spencer, OK www.okcsattv.com www.tulsasattv.com
> www.normansattv.com
> Chesterfield, MI www.anchorbaytv.com
> San Angelo, TX www.itvn-west-texas.us
> Indiana and Illinois www.galaxy1a.com
> Warsaw, IN www.warsawintv.net
> Meridian, MS www.meridianinternettv.com
> City Web Site
> San Juan, Puerto Rico www.puertoricsattv.com
> www.virginislandssattv.com www.santodomingosattv.com
> Fair Lawn, NJ. 07410 www.FEtvnewyork.com www.fetvsuffolkcty.com
> www.fetvafrica.com
> www.fetvn.com www.fetvdc.com www.fetvlasvegas.com
> www.fetv2.com
> Atlanta, GA www.atlantatv.biz
> Romulas, MI www.detroitonlinetv.com
> North Carolina www.monroenettv.com www.metronettv.com
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> Satellite coverage of Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, Middle
> East. Central Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and China. ( Search
> Satellite coverages for channels)
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| For Immediate Release
"Chess MasterMinds" show
Nashville, Tennessee
July 23, 2005
On Sunday, July 24th, 2005, the world will see a chess match that has
not been
done in 60 years. This is the first distance chess match to be held
between
the old Soviet Union, (Russia) and the USA since the end of WWII and
the start
of the cold war.
July 10, 2005 will be date of the first of three distant chess matches
that are
scheduled between Russian and U.S. players. The games will be 20-minute
matches between four Russian chess grandmasters vs. four U.S. chess
grandmasters. The games will be played over the Internet using
Shahcom's e-
boards. The players for the first match are located in St. Petersburg,
Russia
and Nashville, Tennessee. The production of this event, provided by
Chess
Masterminds, will be taped on July 10th, 2005, in Nashville, Tennessee,
with
feeds coming in from Russia. The show will be called Chess MasterMinds
and
will be aired Sunday, July 24th, 2005.
This is a distance chess match series of 10-, 20- or 30-minute games
between
chess grandmasters from different parts of the world. In addition,
these
matches will be produced for video and made available to the rest of
the world
through satellite up-links.
Featured in this event of the century will be some of the world's
greatest
chess grand masters, such as, Susan Polgar, who has ranked in the top
three in
the world for the last twenty years. Polgar is currently ranked #1 in
the
United States.
Not only is Polgar a dynamic player, she is rated as one of the best
players in
the world in both the men and women's divisions. Her passion for
teaching chess
to children and young girls and women has truly earned Polgar the title
of
"Chess Ambassador".
Also in the match for the U.S. team is Grand Master, Alex Onischuk is
indeed
"The Rock". Rated #59 in the world, his defense and counter attacks
have made
for some of the most dramatic play over the board of battle. Using a
style
similar to boxing legend Muhammad Ali's "rope a dope"; Alex will wait
until an
attacker has "punched himself out" and then deliver a lethal
combination.
Onischuk was the Olympiad Silver Medalist in 1996 and Bronze Medalist
in 1998.
He competed in the 2004 US Olympiad team and playing board number one,
placed
fourth in the overall games.
On the Russian Team, we will have Alexander Khalifman, he is rated #42
in the
World, and has become one of the strongest contemporary chess players
in the
world. An International Grandmaster in 1990, he became The Champion of
Russia
in 1996. He has been the winner of World Chess Olympiads three times
(1992,
2000 and 2002); Khalifman was a two-time Saint-Petersburg Champion,
winning in
1996 and 1997. He was the FIDE World champion in 1999. In addition,
Khalifman
was the winner of the World Team Championship in 1997 and the Europe
Team
Championship 2003. In addition to being an excellent player, he is a
respected
chess journalist and the founder of grandmaster chess school and
website.
This young player for the Russian team, Konstantin Sakaev, rated #30 in
the
world, was born on April 13, 1974, and is one of the leading Russian
chess
players. He became an International Grandmaster in 1992. He was the
winner of
the Youth Russian Championship in 1990, as well as the three-time
winner of the
World Youth Championship games in 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Sakaev participated in four of last FIDE World Championships (1999,
2000, 2001,
and 2004). He was the Champion of Russia in 1999, the Champion of Saint
Petersburg in 1990 as well as a two-time winner of World Chess
Olympiads in
1998 and 2000. Sakaev is a four-time winner of Russia Club Championship
(1992,
1995, 2000 and 2001).
Our commentators hosting the Chess MasterMinds show will be Paul Truong
and
Phil Innes. Paul Truong is the FIDE Master and Captain and Manager of
the 2004
Women's Olympiad Silver Medalist team and an 11 time Champion. Phil
Innes
created program for qualitative assessment of on-line arts education,
which
appeared before Senate Technology Committee, Washington D.C.
Synchronously
with business activities, worked with the inventor of chess
broadcasting
technologies in St. Petersburg, Russia, since 1996, to promote greater
world-
wide interactions and audiences for chess.
The match will also include two arbiters. The U.S. Arbiter is Harry
Sabine and
the Russian Arbiter is Igor Bolotinsky, who is now the #2 Arbiter in
Russia.
There could be no other choice for the music in this show, but to have
Bering
Strait, a band from Nashville that consists of brilliant young Russians
to
perform and be featured in Chess MasterMinds. The band earned a 2002
Grammy
award nominee for best "Country" music instrumental and the group was
featured
in a documentary film directed by Nina Gilden Seavey, "The Ballad of
Bering
Strait". The striking story of the band growing up outside of Moscow in
Obninsk, where the members of Bering Strait attended music school, fell
in love
with and mastered the American form of bluegrass, journeyed to the
United
States, and ended up recording their by then multi-faceted music for a
major
Nashville recording company. The band just released it's new album,
"Pages" on
June 28th,2005. This new album definitely has the flavor of their
Russian
descent flowing through the music, giving it a very distinctive sound
that is
hard to place in any one genre of music.
Please see the website for further information at
www.chessmasterminds.com or
contact Rob Mitchell @ 615-242-7871 or
robmitchell@nashvillefilmstudio.com
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