IDeA Master Trees and IDeA Game Links
Last month I described over forty new features and improvements in version 4.0.6 of Rybka Aquarium. This month I discuss two further features that will be appreciated by opening analysts, correspondence players, and other serious chess players. Read the rest of this entry »

3rd Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao
The Bilbao Masters Final take place October 9th-15th 2010. Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen are joined by Alexei Shirov and Vladimir Kramnik (qualifiers from the Shanghai Masters) to compete in the four player double round robin. Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN] [–table–]

World Chess Olympiad 2010
World Chess Olympiad is going to take place in Khanty-Mansiysk from September, 20th to October, 4th. There are 160 male and 120 female teams participating. Tournament format: 11 rounds of swiss with 4 games in every round. Play days: 21-25, 27-30 Sept, 1 & 3 Oct. All rounds start at 10:00 UTC. ChessOK is going to broadcast all games of the tournament with Rybka 4 Aquarium commentary. The commentaries can be displayed in the six languages – Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian or French. In each round 16 selected games are to be commented online, and another 100 games will be commented and posted on this site within 20 hours after the end of a round. World Chess Olympiad Broadcast

New Features in Aquarium 4.0.6
A new version of Aquarium 4 (4.0.6) will soon be released. It is free for current Aquarium 4 users. Going from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6 would seem to indicate a minor update, but this is one of the biggest updates since the original release. Before going into the details, here is a quick overview of the new features: Read the rest of this entry »

New offer: buy 3 chess books for the cost of 2
Order any two books costing more than $15/€12 in our online chess shop and get a third book of your choice (in the price range of the first two) absolutely free. ChessOK has a variety of books on different topics: tactics training, strategy, certain openings, biographies, etc.

Starting a New IDeA Project
IDeA is meant to be used interactively and your interaction with IDeA should start before you let it analyze the first position of a project! When you create a new IDeA project, you start the analysis from a position that is of particular interest to you. It could be a critical position in your favorite opening, the first move out of the opening in a correspondence game, or just an interesting position that you would like to understand better with the help of IDeA. Read the rest of this entry »

Using the Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book
Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium , Rybka 4 Aquarium , and the Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book are now available. Last month I interviewed Jiri Dufek, the author of the opening book. We also saw several novelties and improvements on current theory that are published in the book. This month we will look at the practical use of Jiri’s opening book, the additional data that comes with it and how this data can be used. Read the rest of this entry »

Chess Assistant autumn offer
Until December, 31st there are free bonuses for ordering products from Chess Assistant family: — Internet Game Service, April-December 2010 if you order Chess Assistant 11 Starter (including upgrade and combo products with Aquarium), thus saving $40 / €32 — Internet Game Service 2010-2011 if you order Chess Assistant 11 Pro or Mega (including upgrade and combo products with Aquarium), thus saving $80 / €64 Internet Game Service lets you download nearly 2500 new chess games weekly in Chess Assistant & PGN format to expand your game database. The game packages also include tournament tables and results.