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Today I got one of the strongest impressions in my life. I am eager to share with you! You all have heard about the highest building in the world Burj Khalifa (initial name Burj Dubai changed in honor of Abu-Dhabi Sheikh who helped Dubai to cope with crisis). But you might have not yet hear about one of the highest fountains in the world placed in front of it. Water can shoot up to 150 meter (about 50 storied building). Every 20 minutes in evenings there start new musical show with fountains dancing. This wonder is impossible to describe with words. I was breathless observing the performance in 30 meters and want to share with you this chance.

Any player who strives to make progress will enjoy this game a lot. Looking through Andrei Vovk victory at recent tournament in Cappelle will teach many instructive ideas in one of popular pawn structures. This knowledge came as surprise to Polish grandmaster. So Andrei presented perfect manual of planning in Sicilian against pawns d6, e6, f6, f7. Go ahead and study!

Men often do not accept woman chess seriously. One can cure such snobbism by checking his own games with computer analysis. The more effective prove demonstrated Vita Chulivska by beating grandmaster in 27 moves. Here it is – true woman chess. No male can resist!

Summary article about performance of Zherebukh (on the photo), Kryvoruchko, Kravtsiv, Andrei and Yuri Vovk, Oleksienko, Grekh and Chulivska at one of most popular open - tournaments in Cappelle la Grande (France). Wins and losses, games and photos.

The first in our career mass trip of Lviv group abroad , was participation in tournament Cappelle la Grande in France. Having agreed it with organizers, I persuaded parents to support this trip. In 2005 with orange scarfs (exactly after Orange revolution in Ukraine) we triumphantly went to conquest the Europe!

Mikhailo Oleksienko never plays boring chess. And in this case, the opening also provoked him - Benoni defence. As a result there appeared this nice game. I also want to draw your attention at the final combination. Even the strongest computer cannot spot it. This is amazing, since calculation of variations is undoubted basic strength of our silicon friends. So we may be happy that a strong grandmaster can not only overplay computer but also overcalculate it!

This game was played in spirit of best old masters games. If it were not date mentioned, one could really believe this is one of Morphy or Chigorin masterpiece. Firework of sacrifices, exceptional decisions and witty comments by Yuri promise you much fun!

Today one of most interesting open tournaments of the year is taking off from a runaway Andrei Volokitin takes the flight to this airtournament not for the first time. Cabin crew of this year flight is especially high ranked. 80 grandmasters, top 5 of them are Vachier-Lagrave (2730),  Bacrot  (2713),  Motylev (2697), Kamsky (2693) and our Andrei (2692). We wish him smooth take off and pleasant landing on pedestal! The visitor platform for fans is here.

 On the south-eastern coast of India there is situated a city known by its chess traditions – Chennai. Have you doubt? Then you should know that until 1996 the city had another name – Madras. It is place of birth of Viswi Anand, Krishnan Sasikiran and many other grandmasters.

The victory of Andrei Grekh took the prize as best game on Vasylyshyn Memorial 2008. Some readers may not be much impressed by it. Far not Linares - would they say. But I don't agree. Not the tournament adorns the game, but beautiful games can embellish any competition! Really Andrei won good attacking game with final nice queen sacrifice. Welcome to view. 

Andrei Volokitin is well-known team player. Gold of Olympiad, best result at 1^st board in Bundesliga (with many top players played) and regular invitations to Ukrainian team - are best proves of it. Please look how easily he coped with his experienced opponent - in World Team Championship.

To your attention we offer the best game of Chess Informant №104. Representative jury found Volokitin’s game the best of the best. The winner commented this intensive battle in and details for the first time. Also Andrei shared with useful information about Slav defense, proving once again that he is one of the best opening expert in the world.

This game was decisive for right to play on World Cup 2009. Not so often it happens that important for sport result game appears to be really beautiful. Even more seldom one can win against player with 2600+ in 24 moves. Perhaps, for these achievements the experts of site chesspro.ru voted for this Blitzkrieg third rank of the best games played in May of 2008. This encounter was commented in many magazines and articles, but only on this site you can enjoy the exclusive analysis of international Grandmaster Yuriy Kryvoruchko.

One of the best Russian chess commentators Maksim Notkin wrote: “In game Oleksienko-Grandelius, Ukrainian grandmaster, having got advantage in interesting positional game, chose a fabulous way of its realization”. Forcing line with exchange sacrifice led to a position where White had also to sacrifice one more piece to rescue himself from mate, as a result game arrived to endgame, where extra rook wasn’t able to stop white pawns from promoting”.  The only thing I can add to this is thanks to Mikhaylo Oleksienko for his detailed comments which clarify what actually happened in this thriller-game.