The Chicago Blaze got very good news this week with the announcement that GM Yuri Shulman and IM Jan Van DeMortel agreed to play on our team. Now the trick becomes balancing the roster to fit our lineups under the 2400 cap. I probably won't announce any other roster appointments for a few months while watching the ratings fluctuate. It makes me kind of feel like Willy Wonka, passing out the golden tickets.
There should be announcements coming on the dates and format for the 2008 Colias forthcoming next week. As a teaser, it will be at Joliet Junior College, and there will be additional sections, including one for class players.
One of the chess highlights of this winter for me was slated to be the International chess convention this weekend in Oak Brook. Unfortunately Karpov will not be attending due to visa problems. The event still should be great as Shulman and Onischuk are two of the best communicators of the GMs that I have ever met. I do wonder though out of frustration, why, when you know you will be traveling somewhere wouldn't you apply for the visa earlier?
CPS named a new Chess coordinator, Darren Osborne. Since he appears nowhere in the USCF database, I am guessing that he is a golf person rather than being a chess person, as his position governs over both.
Glenn
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