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I charge US$ 25 per hour, US$ 100 for 5 hours or US$ 200 for 10 hours, if one purchases them in advance.
Lessons happen on Playchess & ChessRex.com. I use Teams and Google Meet.
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]).
Game analysis with verbal comments and suggestions on what to improve and how
Easy improvement – detailed analysis of your games done by an International Master. I charge US$ 10 per game or US$ 35 for 5 games. Analysis can be sent by pgn, html, cbv formats.
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Send US$ 5 to [email protected] on Paypal and get 10 game fragments on middlegame/endgame every week. Studying these themes helps to find plans, ideas, build strategies 15-35 moves into the game. 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. Material can be sent in pgn, cbv, html, pdf formats.
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Want to learn to play the middlegame or endgame well?
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
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.-
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Top 100 Women November 2013
Also a lot had changed in this rating list! The first 18 players are over 2500 now.
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2689 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2629 6 1994
3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2618 22 1987
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2566 6 1990
5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2565 15 1985
6 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2556 0 1987
7 Lagno, Kateryna g UKR 2542 18 1989
8 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2524 11 1988
9 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2523 0 1985
10 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2520 10 1963
11 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2518 36 1991
12 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2511 11 1980
13 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2510 25 1984
14 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2510 15 1991
15 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2510 0 1986
16 Gunina, Valentina g RUS 2509 24 1989
17 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2506 7 1983
18 Krush, Irina m USA 2502 0 1983
19 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2499 15 1985
20 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2496 9 1986
21 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2494 22 1979
22 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2492 6 1985
23 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2491 0 1992
24 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2488 0 1976
25 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2485 15 1986
26 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2484 21 1991
27 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2466 6 1979
28 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2464 9 1978
29 Khurtsidze, Nino m GEO 2462 0 1975
30 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2458 0 1972
31 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2457 20 1978
32 Melia, Salome m GEO 2453 0 1987
33 Guo, Qi wg CHN 2451 16 1995
34 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag m MGL 2449 16 1987
35 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2449 14 1985
36 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2449 0 1978
37 Bodnaruk, Anastasia m RUS 2448 9 1992
38 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2448 0 1983
39 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2447 21 1991
40 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2447 15 1982
41 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2442 3 1976
42 Tania, Sachdev m IND 2441 12 1986
43 Guramishvili, Sopiko m GEO 2441 9 1991
44 Peptan, Corina-Isabela m ROU 2439 0 1978
45 Goryachkina, Aleksandra wg RUS 2438 9 1998
46 Moser, Eva m AUT 2434 2 1982
47 Socko, Monika g POL 2431 9 1978
48 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2429 9 1982
49 Ding, Yixin wg CHN 2428 16 1991
50 Alexandrova, Olga m ESP 2427 0 1978
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