Looking for lessons?
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.
Just US$ 5 for monthly subscription to weekly e-mails with middlegame/endgame material
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.
Don’t know how to study chess or what to study to improve?
Check out the study material pages or e-mail me at [email protected].
Just US$ 5 for monthly subscription to fresh opening ideas & updated theoretical lines sent weekly by e-mail!
Check out https://yelenadembo.com/archives/6242 and https://yelenadembo.com/material-for-sale or e-mail me at [email protected] for info!
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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Qatar Masters Open 2014
This very high class and level event starts in about 2 hours!
(Photo taken from the official site)
(Photo taken from the official site)
Top pairings of the 1st round:
1 GM Giri Anish 2776 – GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 2520
2 GM Halkias Stelios 2519 – GM Kramnik Vladimir 2760
3 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2757 – GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2517
4 GM Gomez John Paul 2510 – GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2751
5 GM Ding Liren 2730 – GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2507
6 GM Harika Dronavalli 2505 – GM Harikrishna P. 2725
7 GM Jobava Baadur 2722 – GM Khotenashvili Bela 2504
8 IM Karthikeyan Murali 2497 – GM Eljanov Pavel 2719
9 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2719 – GM Ankit R. Rajpara 2494
10 GM Carlsson Pontus 2492 – GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2714
Aronian-Nakamura Match 2014
The Blitz match finished with 9.5-6.5 in favor of Nakamura. Here are a few games:
Check out all the games on the official site.
Wednesday Quiz
Aronian-Nakamura Match 2014
The 4th Classical game ended in a draw, so the match finished with 2-2. Today they will play 16 blitz games.



