After lengthy discussions and negotiations the match is ready now ready to go ahead.

Dylan Sharp (Hiarcs) is captain, while  Soren Riis (Rybka) and NATIONAL12 (Rybka) are co-captains each with the power to post the official move.

1)24 hours per move.
2)1 game at a time.
3)The Gladiators have Black
4)The official move is going to be posted at Hiarcs Forum (see  http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1807)
5)Official Time will be the Moscow Time= GMT+3.
6)The start time:on 20 october at 23- 59 ( Moscow Time)

Added: Let me add a bit back ground for this match. Almost two months ago we (the Rybka forum) received the following interesting challenge:

Hello, Dear Rybka forum
The Gladiator chess forum ( players from former USSR/СССР )
offer to you ( Rybka forum ) a friendly advance chess game.

Here the list of Some of ours players:
GM Maslak Konstantin (playchess MASLAKKOSTIA),GM Bryzgalin Kirill, GM Khismatullin Denis,GM Lastin Alexander
GM Drozdovskij Yuri ,GM Skorchenko, Dmitriy , Sergey Nefedov ( author of engine Anechka ) and some
other good advancers from playchess like OlegGR ,Kosmodrom, Zunkor ,Igalex

We suggest this conditions, but it's only a proposition we wait for your suggestions.
1) 2 games (one black, one white)
2) 1 move per day ( black and white)

We registered a special forum for advance games http://norival.ucoz.net/forum
( currently in russian but we will add an english version in some days)

On the Rybka forum we agreed it would be interesting to play such a match, but thought that we would like to play this match in corporation with the Hiarcs team.

Anyway you are hereby invited to take part in the match with a team that include at least five Russian GMs, and some strong advanced chess player that have access to at least one 16 core engine.

Please send me a pm if you are interested in supporting the combined Hiarcs/Rybka team.