Russian Women’s Team is Ready for Tromsø Chess Olympiads

Hello everyone! A week of intensive training has just ended. Tomorrow morning our team is leaving for Norway to participate in the 2014 Chess Olympiads. You might recall that we won the previous Istanbul 2012 Olympiads, and so we have to do our best to defend our title. Our team will be comprised of (from left to right on the photo) WGM Natalija Pogonina (2508), GM Valentina Gunina (2501), GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (2533), WGM Olga Girya (2493), and GM Kateryna Lagno (2540). There will be fierce competition especially from China, Ukraine, Georgia, India so the Olympiads will be wonderful to follow! Below are some photos taken the last 2 days of our training camp (subscribe free to Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk’s Instagram feed), enjoy!
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25 new Video Tutorials for Chess King 4 for PC/Mac posted today

Hello everybody!
Following last week’s announcement that Chess King 4 for Mac is now available, I made 2 video tutorials for Chess King 4 and together with Steve Lopez’ wonderful new 23 video tutorials, posted all 25 videos online, that’s more than 2 hours of tutorials, guaranteed to make you a super user of Chess King, ready to go and win more chess games.
You can watch them either directly on our YouTube “ChessKing” channel (all the 25 videos are in this playlist), or on the Chess King Training site. And if you want to buy yourself a copy of chess King 2, 3, 4 for PC or Mac, don’t forget that the code 10dOFF will make you save $10 over any order above $50.
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