Author Archives: yelenadembo

We learn from Anatoly Karpov

WE LEARN FROM ANATOLY KARPOV The 12th World champion Anatoly Karpov has no as well-known students as Kasparov was in Botvinnik’s chess-school and Yussupov in chess-school of Dvoretsky. First of all he is a chess-player. Preferring to create works of … Continue reading

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Analysis, thoughts, etc

So, the holidays are over and it is time to analyse the events, successes and failures of last year Understanding what you did well or not so well will help you to play and think better in the future. For … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

Wish you and your family a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!

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Morning exercise

White to move and win

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Selection of my games from Mind Sports Games

Here is a selection from my games: Rapid 1.Rd8 and Black resigned! Blitz Blindfold The official website of the Chess event was http://sportaccord2011.fide.com/index.php and you can still download games or just view them there!

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Mind Sport Games in China

This tournament was organized on a very high level and included several disciplines such as Go, Bridge, Chinese Chess, Draughts and Chess. In Chess there were two separate Elite sections – Men and Women – with three events each: Rapid, … Continue reading

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China

I am currently in China, playing in the World Mind Sports Games 2011. Unfortunately, Facebook and Twitter access in China is not easy, so I won’t be updating till my return on December 17th.

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New ideas in chess :) – Rapid and Blitz ratings

Recently FIDE has been discussing the addition of Rapid and Blitz ratings. So, here we are: we will have new ratings in the two new “disciplines” already next year. For some it will be easy and pleasant and for some … Continue reading

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European women’s team championship 2011

I finished the event on +2 on first board with a single loss (playing against 6 GMs among other titled players) and won 0.2 points which is also something Unfortunately, the team didn’t didn’t finish on a good place Here … Continue reading

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Women’s European Team Championship

So far the Greek team has been playing very well, losing narrowly to Ukraine and winning against Austria. Here are two my first games: Today we play Hungary, so wish us luck!

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