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Teaching experience – 26 years. Students’ level ranges from beginners to players with 2400 ELO (IMs as well).My mom Nadezhda Fokin (Israeli Women’s Champion, 3rd board in 1992 Chess Olympiad, Soviet Women’s Master) charges US$ 20 for 1 hour (payments via my PayPal e-mail – [email protected]).
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I have a collection of over 40 thousand examples. It is very important to study these themes as the middlegame is where most players get into time pressure or just cannot find a plan.
Prices: each annotated example costs 20 cents, so 10 examples cost 2 euros, etc. Send payment to [email protected] on PayPal to get the examples by e-mail in cbv, pgn, html formats.Special price for middlegame books with very interesting verbal explanations
My first chess book, “The Very Unusual Book About Chess” – ONLY 15 euros with postage and packaging included. Detailed explanation of tactical methods.
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European Club Cup 2013 Women – last round
(Photo taken from the official site)
As it was known already 2 days ago (:) ), Monte Carlo won the 1st place. Ugra became 2nd with 10 points and SHSM Nashe Nasledie – 3rd with 9.
Results of the 7th round
Bo. 1 Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo Рейт – 9 Fischer Chieti Рейт 4 : 0
1.1 GM Koneru, Humpy 2607 – IM Zimina, Olga 2337 1 – 0
1.2 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2560 – WIM Brunello, Marina 2263 1 – 0
1.3 GM Cramling, Pia 2515 – Gueci, Tea 2054 1 – 0
1.4 IM Skripchenko, Almira 2441 – Di Primio, Eugenia 1982 1 – 0
Bo. 6 Chess Club BAS Рейт – 5 Ugra Рейт 2 : 2
2.1 IM Bojkovic, Natasa 2414 – GM Ushenina, Anna 2497 ½ – ½
2.2 IM Gaponenko, Inna 2400 – WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2485 ½ – ½
2.3 WGM Stojanovic, Andjelija 2302 – WGM Kovanova, Baira 2396 ½ – ½
2.4 WGM Chelushkina, Irina 2280 – IM Romanko, Marina 2359 ½ – ½
Bo. 4 CS Politechnica-Antibiotice Iasi Рейт – 3 Mika Chess Club Рейт 1 : 3
3.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2534 – GM Harika, Dronavalli 2475 ½ – ½
3.2 GM Cmilyte, Viktorija 2505 – IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2469 ½ – ½
3.3 WGM Bulmaga, Irina 2401 – GM Danielian, Elina 2471 0 – 1
3.4 WGM L’ami, Alina 2362 – IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2435 0 – 1
Bo. 2 SHSM Nashe Nasledie Рейт – 11 ASVOE Pamhagen Рейт 4 : 0
4.1 GM Gunina, Valentina 2506 – WFM Novkovic, Julia 2105 1 – 0
4.2 IM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 2410 – Hapala, Lisa 2018 1 – 0
4.3 WGM Girya, Olga 2439 – WFM Horvath, Maria 2036 1 – 0
4.4 IM Savina, Anastasia 2403 – Schmidbauer, Andrea 1885 + – –
Bo. 10 “Rudar” Prijedor Рейт – 7 Jelica PEP Рейт ½ :3½
5.1 Nesic, Dragana 1842 – GM Zhukova, Natalia 2456 0 – 1
5.2 Plivcevic, Ivana 1881 – WGM Vojinovic, Jovana 2347 0 – 1
5.3 WIM Djukic, Sandra 2150 – WIM Rakic, Marija 2296 ½ – ½
5.4 Gajic, Branka 0 – WIM Eric, Jovana 2218 0 – 1
Final standings
1 MNC Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo 7 7 0 0 14 154.5 23.5 104.0 104.00
2 RUS Ugra 7 4 2 1 10 89.5 16.0 109.5 70.50
3 RUS SHSM Nashe Nasledie 7 3 3 1 9 108.0 19.0 98.0 50.50
4 ARM Mika Chess Club 7 4 1 2 9 104.0 15.5 97.5 58.00
5 ROU CS Politechnica-Antibiotice Iasi 7 3 1 3 7 101.5 17.0 107.0 42.50
6 LTU MRU – Vilniaus Fortas 7 3 1 3 7 56.0 14.0 73.0 22.00
7 SRB Jelica PEP 7 2 2 3 6 72.5 15.0 79.0 21.00
8 SRB Chess Club BAS 7 2 2 3 6 67.5 12.0 92.0 26.00
9 ITA Fischer Chieti 7 2 1 4 5 31.0 10.5 85.0 11.50
10 BIH “Rudar” Prijedor 7 1 1 5 3 24.5 7.5 76.5 4.00
11 AUT ASVOE Pamhagen 7 0 1 6 1 23.0 4.0 78.0 0.00