Advanced Chess Tournaments Online
In recent years there have been, worldwide, a number of advanced chess tournaments online, defined Freestyle Chess Tournaments by Centaur (Centaur = human player + computer). The most important were the PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament, sponsored by the PAL Group in Abu Dhabi (UAE), which had a high level of play and the winners, in chronological order, were: Zacks (Stephen Zackery, USA), Zorchamp (Hydra (chess), UAE), Rajlich (Vasik Rajlich, Hungary), Xakru (Jiri Dufek, Czech Rep.), Flying Saucers (Dagh Nielsen, Denmark), Rajlich (Vasik Rajlich, Hungary ) Ibermax (Anson Williams, England) and Ultima (Eros Riccio, Italy). Similar tournaments were organized by the FICGS and Infinity Chess, the server operated by the CCGM Arno Nickel.
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