http://yelenadembo.com My home on the web! Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:09:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 http://yelenadembo.com/archives/141 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 :-D I am currently occupied by translation of my dad's book on children's education. It will be published in ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/140 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 ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/139 My new FIDE rating is 2482 (my highest so far) and I am on 22nd place in top 100 women in the world! http://yelenadembo.com/archives/138 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 ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/137 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 . http://yelenadembo.com/archives/136 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 ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/119 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 ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/117 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 ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/111 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 ... http://yelenadembo.com/archives/109