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Ivanchuk - Leko Match

Ivanchuk-Leko 2009Rapid chess match between Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2779. 3rd place in FIDE rating list) and Peter Leko (Hungary, 2751, 9th place) will take part from January 3nd to 5th in Mukachevo , Ukraine..
Match format: 6 games.
Time control: 25 min+10 sec/move.
Vassily Ivanchuk has won the match.
Games: All games [download PGN]

Ivanchuk - Leko 2009
Name NAT Rtng 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2779 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½
Leko Peter HUN 2751 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½

“Aker Chess Challenge” Super Rapid Tournament

Aker Chess ChallengeStrong rapid chess tournament will take part from January 2nd to 5th in Gjøvik, Norway.
Challengers are: Magnus Carlsen (2776, Norway), Peter Svidler (2723. Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (2699, USA) and Kjetil A. Lie (2539. Norway).
Average ELO: 2684.
Time control: 25 min +5 sec/move.
Tournament format: A preliminary double-rounded tournament is followed by a bronze final and a final, in all eight rounds, plus if necessary sudden death blitz games.

Petr Svidler is the winner of the challenge.
Games: All games [download PGN

Final - 5th Jan.
Magnus Carlsen - Petr Svidler ½ - 1½
Bronze final - 5th Jan.
Hikaru Nakamura - Kjetil A. Lie 1½ - ½

Pairings and schedule are below
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18th Pamplona International

18th Pamplona InternationalTraditional 18th Pamplona International tournament will take part from December 22nd to 29th in Pamplona, Spain.
Participants: Sasikiran (2694), Roiz (2677), Malakhov (2675), Vallejo Pons (2664), Caruana (2640), Delchev (2632), Nepomniachtchi (2616), Salgado Lopez (2556). Average ELO: 2644. ChessOK will thoroughly analyze each game with Rybka 3 Aquarium.
Krishnan Sasikiran has won the tournament.

Analyzed games: Round 1 [download PGN], Round 2 [download PGN], Round 3 [download PGN], Round 4 [download PGN], Round 5 [download PGN], Round 6 [download PGN], Round 7 [download PGN], All games [download PGN]

Final standings

Below are round-by-round pairings and results;

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FIDE Grand Prix Tournament in Elista

FIDE Grand Prix: ElistaThird tournament of FIDE Grand Prix series is going to take part in Elista from Dec. 13th to Dec 29th.

Participants: Radjabov, Leko, Jakovenko, Wang Yue, Mamedyarov, Eljanov, Grischuk, Alekseev, Bacrot, Gashimov, Cheparinov, Akopian, Kasimdzhanov, Inarkiev.
Average ELO is 2712. It is 20th FIDE tournament category.

All rounds expect last start at 12:00 GMT.

Games: Round 1 [download PGN], Round 2[download PGN], Round 3[download PGN], Round 4[download PGN], Round 5[download PGN], Round 6[download PGN], Round 7 [download PGN], Round 8 [download PGN], Round 9 [download PGN], Round 10[download PGN], Round 11[download PGN], Round 12 [download PGN], Round 13 [download PGN] All games [download PGN]

Round 13 - 28th Dec.
Vugar Gashimov - Rustam Kasimdzhanov ½-½
Pavel Eljanov - Ernesto Inarkiev 1-0
Evgeny Alekseev - Dmitry Jakovenko ½-½
Wang Yue - Peter Leko ½-½
Vladimir Akopian - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov ½-½
Alexander Grischuk - Teimour Radjabov ½-½
Ivan Cheparinov - Etienne Bacrot ½-½

Round 13 with Rybka 3 Aquarium comments! [download PGN]

Final standings: 1-3. Teimour Radjabov, Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Grischuk - 8 points.

Below are the pairings and standings:
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Top grandmasters tournament in China: Nanjing 2008

China Top-GM's tournament logotypeThe first Top GM’s tournament in China, Pearl Spring, will take part from December 10th to December 22nd in Nanjing. Average ELO rating of participants is 2751, which makes it a category 21 tournament - the strongest ever held in China.
Format is double round robin. All rounds start at 07:00 GMT, December 16th is the rest day.
Veselin Topalov has won the tournament.

Games: Round 1 [download PGN], Round 2 [download PGN], Round 3 [download PGN], Round 4 [download PGN], Round 5 [download PGN], Round 6 [download PGN], Round 7 [download PGN], Round 8 [download PGN], Round 9 [download PGN], Round 10 [download PGN] All games [download PGN]

Final Standings

Below are round-by-round pairings and results:

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New Products: ChessOK Aquarium Basic & Standard, Openings 2009

Rybka 3 & Chess Openings 2009, ChessOK AquariumThere are four new program packages available at ChessOK shop:

ChessOK Aquarium Basic for €19.9 / $25
ChessOK Aquarium Standard for €34 / $40
Rybka 3 and Chess Openings 2009 for €45 / $59
    + Christmas present: ChessOK Aquarium Basic
Deep Rybka 3 and Chess Openings 2009 for €79 / $109
    + Christmas present: ChessOK Aquarium Standard

ChessOK Aquarium - modern graphical chess interface, which offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and more is available for as low as €19.9 / $25. It has full set of functions of the top package, Rybka 3 Aquarium.

More information about the packages below:
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Rybka 3 Aquarium 3.0.8 Update

Rybka 3 Aquarium logotypeRybka 3 Aquarium 3.0.8 Update has been released just recently.

You can download it using ChessOK Downloader or from our site:
Full update from any version
Incremental update 3.0.7 to 3.0.8

The download size is 16 Mb.

For German version: after installing the update, delete the file <aquarium>\Aquarium.ger-rs-map. We’ll release special German 3.0.8 update soon.

Read below what’s new (also available in the Aquarium FAQ):
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Chess Assistance site is back

Bob Pawlak’s wonderful site (ChessAssistance.com), which was unavailable because of hosting problems, now is back online on our hosting and resides at http://ca.chessok.com. Update your links please.

Chess Assistance provides a handful lot of useful manuals, FAQ’s and other documents on our headline chess database program - Chess Assistant.

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