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Analysis, thoughts, etc

yelenadembo — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:35:47 +0000

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 me, the whole 2011 was very pleasant, so the difficulties I was having in the very last event of the year – the women’s world team championship in Mardin, couldn’t spoil anything After all, I had to play against the likes of the current World Champion Hou Yifan, 2nd player in the world – Koneru and many other very strong GMs. Here is a small selection of annotated games from the last two events of mine – the Mind Sports Games (Beijing) and Women’s World Team Championship (Mardin, Turkey).

Hopefully we will all learn from our mistakes and play better this year! Good luck!

Mind Sport Games in China

yelenadembo — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:26:32 +0000

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, Blitz and Blindfold. And if some men have played Blindfold Chess before in Monaco, this was the first ever such event for women! So, in total there were 32 chess-players – 16 men and 16 women. I was rated 13th in all these events but managed to finish on much higher places! In Rapid event I shared 8th-10th with 3.5 points out of 7, in Blitz I shared 6th-7th with 8 out of 15 and in Blindfold I shared 2nd-6th and was 5th with 4.5 out of 7!

European women’s team championship 2011

yelenadembo — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:39:47 +0000

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 are the final results – http://chess-results.com/tnr57855.aspx?art=0&rd=9&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30

And here are the rest of my games in the event

And a selection of my and my team’s photos from various sources

Rogaska Slatina EWCC final rounds

yelenadembo — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:58:10 +0000

So, in round five we had a bye which gave up plenty of time to rest! The next day we had to play Monaco – the strongest team in the event by rating but which had the same amount of match points with us (our team was rated 7th). I made a relatively quick and easy draw vs IM A.Muzychuk (2545 ELO) and the team drew Monaco thanks to the incredible win of IM Bojkovic vs GM Hou Yifan (the current Women’s World Champion)! The game was drawn in many possible ways but Hou found the only and very unfortunate way to lose – lost on time. And in the last round, the 7th we had to play MIKA, a very strong team from Armenia. I made a quick draw against GM Harika (2505 ELO) but unfortunately after a very long fight our team lost Nevertheless, for me the event was very successful as I finished on 4.5 out of 6, undefeated and won the silver medal on 2nd board! What else can a professional want?!

Here are the last games:

Rogaska Slatina EWCC round 3

yelenadembo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:10:40 +0000

I drew vs IM Munguntuul, 2465 ELO today but my team “BAS” lost 2.5-1.5 Here is my game:

Rogaska Slatina EWCC 2nd round

yelenadembo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:55:15 +0000

Today I won against IM Sedina, 2337 ELO and our team won the match too! Here is the game:

Rogaska Slatina EWCC

yelenadembo — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:01:33 +0000

The European Club Cup this year is incredibly strong both in Open and Women event! We play and live in a very good hotel, the food is great and I was able to start the tournament with a win against GM Lahno (2554 ELO, 5th rated in Top 100 women in the world)! The game turned out to be very interesting with pawn sacrifices on my part. Here it is:

The official website of the event is http://ecc2011.sahohlacnik.com/

FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Shenzhen round 4

yelenadembo — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:05:37 +0000

Ju won against Zhu and Danielian lost 2nd game in a row, this time to Ruan. Hou shared a point with Zhao while Muzychuk won against Yildiz to join the leaders.

Standings after round 4

1-3 Hou, Zhao, Muzychuk 3
4-7 Cmilyte, Tan, Ruan, Ju 2.5
8 Zhu 1.5
9-11 Yildiz, Kovalevskaya, Munguntuul 1
12 Danielian 0.5

Photos of round 4

Games of round 4

FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Shenzhen round 3

yelenadembo — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:54:26 +0000

In the 3rd round Hou Yifan shared a point with Yildiz in a very interesting and long game, while Cmilyte won against Danielian.

Results of round 3

GM Zhao Xue 2497 ½ – ½ GM Zhu Chen 2490
GM Hou Yifan 2578 ½ – ½ WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2308
IM Muzychuk Anna 2545 ½ – ½ IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2465
WGM Tan Zhongyi 2429 1 – 0 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2421
GM Cmilyte Viktori 2525 1 – 0 GM Danielian Elina 2517
WGM Ruan Lufei 2477 ½ – ½ WGM Ju Wenjun 2536

Photos of round 3

Games of round 3

FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Shenzhen round 2

yelenadembo — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:03:35 +0000

Hou and Zhao are leading the event with 2 out of 2, Muzychuk is clear 3rd with 1.5 points.

Here are the photos from 2nd round

Results in 2nd round

GM Zhu Chen 2490 ½ – ½ WGM Ruan Lufei 2477 7
WGM Ju Wenjun 2536 ½ – ½ GM Cmilyte Viktorija 2525 6
GM Danielian Elina 2517 ½ – ½ WGM Tan Zhongyi 2429 5
IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2421 ½ – ½ IM Muzychuk Anna 2545 4
IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2465 0 – 1 GM Hou Yifan 2578 3
WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2308 0 – 1 GM Zhao Xue 2497 2

Standings after 2nd round

1-2 Hou, Xue 2
3 Muzychuk 1.5
4-8 Zhu, Ruan, Ju, Cmilyte, Tan 1
9-11 Yildiz, Kovalevskaya, Danielian 0.5
12 Munguntuul 0

Games of the 2nd round