June 2, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CXR Affiliate in North Carolina to play Australian Kids
CXR has teamed up with Chess Kids (the biggest scholastic chess organization “down under”) to organize a friendly chess match. What’s unusual about the match is that half the players are in
One of the oddities of this match is that the players are 14 time zones apart! The American children will be playing on Wednesday evening, June 3, starting at 6:00 PM. But the Australian chess kids will be playing on Thursday morning, June 4, starting at 8:00 AM, before school! Crikey!!
Some of the parameters of the match are:
· each team will field 10 boards plus 6 alternates
· time control will be “sudden death” — game in 30 minutes.
· tournament officials on each side will ensure proper conduct of the match
· there will be audio and video hookups connecting the two locations
· Games will be CXR-rated and all players will receive 1 year of premium CXR service
· CXR will donate a prize of $100 to the winning school
CXR founder Russ Mollot stated that Chess Kids and CXR plan to hold several additional intercontinental matches in the near future “to bring this synergy of chess and computer technology to more youngsters in more states. We are looking for more candidates to participate in this ground-breaking project.”
For any additional information, email: info@cxrchess.com
Nice idea.
Actually the truth is that the biggest scholastic chess organisation in Australia is the NSWJCL (New South Wales Junior Chess League). It runs junior chess in the state of NSW and currently the NSW Primary Schools Competition is held in 37 Zones with 1001 teams from 375 schools. Meanwhile the Secondary Schools competition consisting of 280 teams from 88 schools is taking part in the metropolitan areas with a separate country district secondary schools competition running in 145 schools.