Chess: From Beginner to Club Player is now available on Android, soon to be followed by other Peshk@ courses coming to this popular mobile platform.

The course explores 100 chess topics including the rules of chess, the various methods of playing the opening, middle game and ending; combinational techniques and basic elements of strategy. In total, the course contains 500 teaching examples and 650 practical exercises useful for consolidation your knowledge and helping you to improve at chess.

A new course package about the 4 most recent World Champions (Fischer, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen) is available for the price of 2 courses.

The revolutionary Chess King 4 with Houdini 4 software is now available for Mac, offering Mac users the strongest chess engine and rich training options in a friendly shell!

Chess King 4 Deep Pro is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master.

A short video introduction to our recently released product CT-ART 5.0 Complete Chess Tactics (DVD, download) is now available on its page in our shop.

The video introduces the courses included in the package and shows the features of the Peshk@ interface.

More videos are coming soon!

Our new service providing online access to 7-man Tablebases on tb7.chessok.com until July 1, 2015 is now online! Using this service, you can access the tablebases from any device via a web interface, without having to use the Aquarium or any other software.

Other new features include position sharing, free 6-man tablebases, forum, tablebase statistics, saving positions as favorites and more!

Lomonosov Tablebases allow you to determine if any position with 7 or less pieces leads to a draw or can be won by either side – with 100% certainty.

If the game can be won, the path with the least number of moves until the end of this variation is shown, given that both players make the best moves possible. If the losing player makes a suboptimal move, he will lose sooner and the program will display the new optimal path.

• Buy Online access to 7-man Lomonosov Tablebases until July 1, 2015

Chess Assistant Standard has been released!

If you only need an affordable yet robust database management tool for club and intermediate players, Chess Assistant Standard is your program of choice! Comes with integrated Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2014 and more than 6 million games.

This version does not include Houdini 4, Premium Game Service 2014 and Lomonosov Tablebases access, but has everything else Chess Assistant has to offer.

Check the comparison table to find the perfect software for your needs.

• Buy Chess Assistant Standard

A brand new course, Chess Tactics in Benko Gambit (also known as Volga gambit) has been released both on DVD and for download! This course is aimed at club and intermediate players (thus gaining 25% off for this week’s special deal) and presents the theory and playing hooks in the most sharp and deciding variations of the Benko gambit.

The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations. More than 170 new exercises provide a great opportunity to reinforce your knowledge.

• Chess Tactics in Benko Gambit (DVD)
• Chess Tactics in Benko Gambit (download)

To all ChessOK Aquarium 2014, Houdini 4 Aquarium and Houdini 4 PRO Aquarium users: an update for all products using the Aquarium 2014 interface has been released. New customers buying the download versions of these products do not need this update as it is already included.

The update adds an option to import IDeA projects and trees from the old format (.hsh) to the new one (.aqt). Fixes a number of critical bugs. Updating is strongly recommended.

To update your Aquarium software, download the file for your version (64-bit or 32-bit) from the Updates and Patches section and run it, then follow the instructions.