Author Archives: Yelena Dembo

The first round of the Olympiad

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The Olympiad started in a spectacular way yesterday (will add photos of the opening ceremony when I am back to a decent internet :-D). You can see the info of the event on http://www.chessolympiadistanbul.com/. Today we played the first round against Costa Rica. My opponent was Gamboa, Leticia, rated 1890 and here is the game:

Today’s Blitz games on ICC :)

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With all the amount of lessons and the training camp that was so pleasant and successful it is not easy to remember and train for the Olympiad where I will be playing on the first board for Greek women’s team. So, i decided to check out my form and played some blitz games on ICC with the time control of 3 minutes per game, without increment. Here are the games:

And here is another one, I played some days ago:

Hope you will enjoy the style! 🙂