New chess lessons
We are glad to tell you about new lecture of the ChessOK.com The lesson is called “Two Knights Game, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6” has been prepared for you by GM Alexander Kalinin. This lesson is the small part of Encyclopedia of Middegame IV program.

Poikovsky 2008
The Poikovsky tournament takes place 8th-17th July 2008. 10 player all-play-all. There was a four way tie on 5.5/9 between 1.Rublevsky, 2.Jakovenko, 3.Gashimov and 4.Shirov. 1 round; 2 round; 3 round; 4 round; 5 round; 6 round; 7 round; 8 round; 9 round

Miss ChessOK Play Zone-2008
The competition « Miss ChessOK Play Zone-2008 », which carried out on our site has come to the end. 22 girls have taken part in it, decided to prove, that wit and beauty do not contradict each other at all, and can harmoniously be combined. Read the rest of this entry »

Karjakin – Short Rapid Match
There is a 10 game rapid match between Sergey Karjakin and Nigel Short in Kiev (Kyiv) 3rd-7th July 2008. 10 game match with 2 games per day. The monitoring of time – 25 minutes to each participant up to the end of a party with addition of 10 seconds for each made move

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	points
S.Karjakin (2727)	1	1	1	0	1	1/2	1	0	1	1	7,5
N.Short (2655)	0	0	0	1	0	1/2	0	1	0	0	2,5

1 round; 2 round; 3 round; 4 round; 5 round; 6 round; 7 round; 8 round; 9 round; 10 round

Match P.Leko-M.Carlsen (rapid) 28th May-1st June
There was an 8 game rapid match between Peter Leko and Magnus Carlsen 28th May – 1st June 2008 in Miskolc, Hungary. Magnus Carlsen won the match 5-3.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
Leko,P (2741)	1/2	1/2	1/2	0	1/2	1/2	0	1/2	3
Carlsen,M (2765)	1/2	1/2	1/2	1	1/2	1/2	1	1/2	5

1 round; 2 round; 3 round; 4 round; 5 round; 6 round; 7 round; 8 round

New lesson by GM Kalinin: “Pirc Defence, 1.e4 d6”
We are glad to tell you about new lesson of the ChessOK.com The lesson is called “Pirc Defence, 1.e4 d6” has been prepared for you by GM Alexander Kalinin. This lesson is the small part of Opening Instructor program.

Sparkassen Chess-Meeting Dortmund
The Sparkassen Chess-Meeting takes place in Dortmund 28th June – 6th July 2008. 7 round
V. Ivanchuk – V. Kramnik 1-0 Van Wely – S. Mamedyarov 0-1 P. Leko – A. Naiditsch 1/2 I. Nepomniachtchi – J. Gustafsson 1/2 — Live comments by ICCF IM Mikhail Emelyanov 1 round; 2 round; 3 round; 4 round; 5 round; Read the rest of this entry »

Two new free services of the ChessOK.com
Chess Lessons There will be new lectures about actual chess topics in this section. There are two lessons at once in our first issue today. – The first lesson is called “Advantage in Development” has been prepared for you by GM Alexander Kalinin. This lesson is the small part of Chess Strategy program. – The second lesson prepared by ICCF grand master Mikhail Kalinichenko is called “Kings gambit”. It’s a short fragment of Opening Instructor program. Live Comments There will be all games from the biggest tournaments broadcasted online since June, 2008. Also for the most interesting game of the day there will be available live comments by ICCF IM Mikhail Emelianov.