Yelena Dembo's Blog

My tournaments this year :-)

yelenadembo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:09:53 +0000

I am going to travel and play quite a lot this year again. Here is the list (more will be added):

5.03-19.03 European Women’s Individual championship

28.06-8.07 Turkish league

Many events in Greece in summer, including Acropolis – 9.06-17.08

19.08-4.10 Olympiad in Khanty-Mansyisk

2.12-25-12 Women’s World championship, Turkey

Dear friends and fans!

yelenadembo — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:53:08 +0000

I want to wish you a Happy, healthy and prosperous 2010!

Also, I want to let you know that the work on the Scotch book is practically done, just some computer stuff left

I am currently occupied by translation of my dad’s book on children’s education. It will be published in Russian and English! Please order directly from me by e-mail!

Best wishes!
Yelena

Scotch Game Book

yelenadembo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:36:58 +0000

Dear friends!

Just want to let everyone who is waiting for my Scotch Game book know that I am still writing it and hopefully it will be done by the end of the year. There is a huge amount of material that I am working on, so please bear with me

Best wishes,
Yelena

New highest rating!

yelenadembo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:50:21 +0000

My new FIDE rating is 2482 (my highest so far) and I am on 22nd place in top 100 women in the world!

Rethymnon & Paleochora Open tournaments

yelenadembo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:07:26 +0000

My next event is going to be a strong open tournament in Rethymnon (Crete) & my husband is going to be the chief-arbiter there. You can see all the information about it on http://www.daor.gr/index.php?id=57,0,0,1,0,0. Then we are going to Paleochora where I won’t be playing but helping a couple of kids who will take part in the event and where my husband will again be the chief-arbiter:-) Photos will follow…

Recent review of my 5th book :-)

yelenadembo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:42:43 +0000

Here is a link of IM John Donaldson’s review of the DW: KID book:
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jd/Dangerous_Weapons_Kings_Indian.html .

News!

yelenadembo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:55:27 +0000

I have some news to share with you!
First, I played in the Turkish league and scored 6,5 out of 8 on the women’s board! It was the best result in the team.

Secondly, you can check out a very recent and interesting interview of mine (questions asked by the current Women’s World Champion & GM Alexandra Kosteniuk) on http://www.chessblog.com/2009/07/womens-chess-star-interview-yelena.html . Enjoy!

New stuff

yelenadembo — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:21:57 +0000

The reason why I wasn’t updating the blog for a very long time is because I started writing my 6th book! The book is a guide to Scotch Game and should be published sometime next year by Everyman Chess! Naturally, in order to gather the material for both sides I have to go through practically everything I can find on the Scotch! Which is really a lot!

The other interesting matter is that the book that my parents write about my upbringing and education (as well as about their students, etc) is slowly moving forward! And although it is in Russian now, I consider translating it into English in the future as it will be very interesting both for parents and for parents-to-be!

And now back to my book )

Final rounds, Men’s European championship

yelenadembo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:18:22 +0000

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 rating, gained experience and won against a strong GM (Minasian – 2557 elo in 29 moves)!

Budva, 8th round

yelenadembo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:47:21 +0000

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.