New CT-ART and Peshka Interface Updated
ChessOK presents a new member of CT-ART family: CT-ART. Mating Combinations. This training course features entirely new theoretical material of very high quality and new technology of giving the studying material: iBook, that uses hyperlinks and additional windows for comfortable reading. The most interesting positions can be viewed on the additional board and played against the built-in chess program. The course includes 1200 instructive examples on 14 themes, illustrating the peculiarities of using certain pieces for mating combinations and 700 exercises for solving. In exercise mode, it show refutations of wrong moves as well as other hints to help. The price is $25/€20 for download. CD version will be available later. The Peshka interface which our training courses use has been updated. Now it features a new customizable design, iBook courses (the above CT-ART. Mating Combination would be an expample) and a number of bugfixes. It also comes with a free preinstalled course from our Modern Chess Openings series: King’s Gambit, featuring both theoretical material and exercises. Be sure to try the course and if you’re interested, have a look at other Modern Chess Opening training courses, which have been released both for download and on CD. The new Peshka interface can be downloaded there.

Russian Woman Championship 2010 Superfinal
Russian Woman Championship takes places in Moscow from November 15th to 27th ChessOK is going to publish all games of the tournament with Rybka Aquarium commentary. Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN], Round 10 [ PGN], Round 11 [ PGN] [–table–]

New training packages
— Modern Chess Opening Set (vol.1-7) is a compilation of seven volumes of Modern Chess Opening series, covering almost all chess openings. The series provide detailed classification and contain a lot of training material. For $109 you get 7 solid training courses, saving as much as $66! — Training Package for Beginners consists of five educational programs: Elementary Checkmates I, Elementary Checkmates II, Easy Ways of Taking Pieces, Chess Tactics for Beginners and Complete Chess Course, covering every phase or aspect of chess from Opening to Endgame. Altogether Chess Training Package for Beginners includes more than 125,000 positions to be solved for chess players with ELO rating from 300 to 1500 for only $75.

World Blitz Championship 2010
World Blitz Championship 2010 is held in Moscow Russia, 17-20th of November. ChessOK will publish all games of the tournament with Rybka Aquarium commentary. Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN], Round 10 [ PGN], Round 11 [ PGN], Round 12 [ PGN], Round 13 [ PGN], Round 14 [ PGN], Round 15 [ PGN], Round 16 [ PGN], Round 17 [ PGN], Round 18 [ PGN], Round 19 [ PGN], Round 20 [ PGN], Round 21 [ PGN], Round 22 [ PGN], Round 23 [ PGN], Round 24 [ PGN], Round 25 [ PGN], Round 26 [ PGN], Round 27 [ PGN], Round 28 [ PGN], Round 29 [ PGN], Round 30 [ PGN], Round 31 [ PGN], Round 32 [ PGN], Round 33 [ PGN], Round 34 [ PGN], Round 35 [ PGN], Round 36 [ PGN], Round 37 [ PGN], Round 38 [ PGN] Tournament table below. Read the rest of this entry »

New Products: Modern Chess Opening Series
Modern Chess Opening series consist of 7 volumes, covering almost all chess openings. The series provide detailed classification and contain a lot of training material. The theoretic material is nicely illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations that demonstrate the principal ideas of each variation for White and Black. Also each volume include many exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer. All volumes cost €20/$25 and are already available at our online shop.

New training packages
— Total Chess Training IV is a training package for club players that consists of five educational programs and covers such aspects of chess as Opening, Combinations, Attack and Defense. This package includes nearly 50,000 positions to be solved with difficulty from 1300 to 2000 ELO. — Training Package for Intermediate Players for intermediate players consists of five educational programs: Chess Endgame Training, Attack on the King II, CT-ART 4.0, Chess Tactics for intermediate players, Chess Strategy, covering every phase or aspect of chess from Opening to Endgame.

Tal’s Memorial 2010
The 5th Memorial of 8th world champion Michael Tal will take place in Moscow from November 5th to 15th. Tournament format: Round robin. Free day: 9th November All rounds start at 12.00 UTC. ChessOK is going to broadcast all games of the tournament with Rybka Aquarium commentary starting from November 7th. Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN] [–table–]

Pearl Spring Masters 2010
The Pearl Spring Masters will take place Nanjing, China from October, 20th to October, 30th. Participants: Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Etienne Bacrot Tournament format: Double round robin. All rounds start at 07.30 UTC. ChessOK is going to broadcast all games of the tournament with Rybka Aquarium commentary. Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN], Round 10 [ PGN] [–table–]