yelenadembo | March 17, 2009
In round 9 I lost to Erdos (2583 elo), then to Ruck (2558 elo) both from Hungary. These two games were quite long and difficult, mainly positional And in the last round I drew GM Sedlak (2592 elo). So I finished with 5.5 out of 11 and am really satisfied with this result! I won [...]
yelenadembo | March 15, 2009
I won against GM Art.Minasian (2557 elo) in just 29 moves with a nice exchange sacrifice which couldnt be accepted due to checkmate in two moves So, I have 5 out of 8 so far. In the 9th round I will play against GM Erdos of Hungary whose rating is 2583.
yelenadembo | March 13, 2009
Today I won a strange game vs Veleski Robert of MKD (2269 elo). We got to a slightly better position for me around move 15 and then he blundered a Q in one move… What a pity! The game was going to be very interesting. His main problem was the lack of good moves and [...]
yelenadembo | March 11, 2009
I drew GM Macieja (2607 elo) of Poland today. He had a very promising position after the opening but then got into strong time-pressure and I gained a strong initiative by sacrificing a pawn. around move 30-40 he found some very good moves and neutralised my activity by exchanging some pieces and pawns. So far [...]
yelenadembo | March 11, 2009
Yesterday I drew GM Savchenko (2654 elo) in another fighting game. In early middlegame he sacrificed an exchange, I sacrificed a pawn in return on the next move and we got an unclear endgame. Later on I thought I was slightly better, he thought the same about his position After the game we analysed and [...]
yelenadembo | March 10, 2009
Today I am playing against GM Savchenko, Boris with elo 2654 with Black pieces. Hopefully, we will play an interesting game!
yelenadembo | March 9, 2009
I lost the 3rd game to Russian GM Grachev with 2655 elo. We played 109 moves! The game was very interesting although not without mutual mistakes (Which game has no mistakes?! ). And today I won a crazy game against Romanian FM Bonte, Andrei (2355 elo). The first part was pretty good, then we spoiled [...]
yelenadembo | March 7, 2009
I won the second round against Serbian FM Igor Spiric, 2254 elo. The game again was very interesting, with mutual sacrifices. Hopefully, I will play a strong GM tomorrow! If you wish to know the news on the championship, log on to http://www.eurobudva2009.com/eng.htm . Enjoy!
yelenadembo | March 6, 2009
I have played and lost a very interesting and fighting game against GM Timofeev (2671 elo) in the first round. You can find more information on http://www.eurobudva2009.com/eng.htm There are 306 players and 138 GMs among them.