In this paper we consider the classical Erd˝os-R´enyi model of random graphs Gn,p. We show that for p = p(n) ≤ n−3/4−δ , for any fixed δ > 0, the chromatic number χ(Gn,p) is a.a.s. , +1, or +2, where is the maximum integer satisfying 2( −1) log( −1) ≤ p(n−1).