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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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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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FIDE World Cup in Tromso 2013

(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)
No tie-breaks were necessary in this match as Kramnik won with 2.5-1.5 score to claim the 1st place in the World Cup! It has been a wonderful event to watch! Congratulations to the winner! 🙂
FIDE World Cup in Tromso 2013
The 3rd game was a relatively fast draw with important exchanges starting as early as move 12! Andreikin only has one more game to equalize the score. Will he be able to do that?
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Top 100 Women September 2013
Lots of rating changes here due to a large amount of tournaments! And I am still on the 38th place :).
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2696 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2609 0 1994
3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2607 0 1987
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2585 11 1990
5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2579 29 1985
6 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2556 11 1987
7 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2535 0 1991
8 Lagno, Kateryna g UKR 2532 11 1989
9 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2531 0 1985
10 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2515 11 1963
11 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2515 11 1986
12 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2514 11 1988
13 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2510 11 1986
14 Gunina, Valentina g RUS 2506 11 1989
15 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2505 11 1983
16 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2501 0 1987
17 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2500 0 1985
18 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2496 11 1979
19 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2495 15 1984
20 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2494 11 1986
21 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2493 11 1980
22 Krush, Irina m USA 2492 4 1983
23 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2490 0 1991
24 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2488 0 1976
25 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2485 11 1985
26 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2478 11 1992
27 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2475 9 1991
28 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2471 4 1978
29 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2470 0 1978
30 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2469 11 1982
31 Bodnaruk, Anastasia m RUS 2462 11 1992
32 Khurtsidze, Nino m GEO 2460 11 1975
33 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2459 11 1984
34 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2458 0 1972
35 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2456 11 1979
36 Melia, Salome m GEO 2453 11 1987
37 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2449 0 1978
38 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2448 0 1983
39 Socko, Monika g POL 2444 20 1978
40 Tania, Sachdev m IND 2443 18 1986
41 Guo, Qi wg CHN 2443 0 1995
42 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2441 0 1976
43 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2440 11 1985
44 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag m MGL 2440 0 1987
45 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2439 11 1991
46 Moser, Eva m AUT 2436 9 1982
47 Kashlinskaya, Alina wg RUS 2434 11 1993
48 Cori T., Deysi wg PER 2433 16 1993
49 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2433 11 1982
50 Guramishvili, Sopiko m GEO 2431 11 1991
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