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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.
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
My first chess book, “The Very Unusual Book About Chess” – ONLY 15 euros with postage and packaging included. Detailed explanation of tactical methods.
My second book is titled “Conversation with a Professional Trainer – Methods of Positional Play” – ONLY 15 euros with postage and packaging included. Detailed explanation of positional ideas and methods!
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The 24th Weekend Sale
All the material is in Fritz/ChessBase, pgn format and is sent by e-mail. Here are the “Study chess on the weekend!” offers:
Openings:
1.e4 e5 repertoire (for the Black side – ALL openings after 1.e4 e5) – US$ 100
1.d4 d5 repertoire (for Black side – ALL openings after 1.d4 d5) – US$ 50
1.c4 repertoire (for White side – ALL openings after 1.c4) – US$ 50
1.d4 Nf6 repertoire (for Black side – ALL openings after 1.d4 Nf6) – US$ 50
English + Hedgehog from English – US$ 35
Dutch – US$ 15
King’s Gambit – US$ 20
Ruy Lopez – US$ 20
View all the openings on sale here.
Middlegame:
20 examples of Ruy Lopez of the 20th century (most interesting and useful games) – US$ 8
20 examples of Knight or Bishop sacrifice on g4 in Dragon variation – US$ 8
20 examples of White sacrifices Nd5 in the Sicilian – US$ 8
20 examples of 2 Rooks versus 3 minor pieces – US$ 8
20 examples of The advantage of two Bishops in middlegame – US$ 8
20 examples of Bxg7 sacrifice – US$ 8
20 examples of Queen sacrifice for Rook, minor piece (and maybe pawn) – US$ 8
20 examples of Centralization of Queen – US$ 8
10 examples of Intermediate Check – US$ 5
10 examples of X-Ray – US$ 5
10 examples of Back rank tactics – US$ 5
Endgame:
20 examples of Complicated endgames – US$ 8
20 examples of Rook versus pawns – US$ 8
20 examples of Opposite color Bishops – US$ 8
20 examples of Minor piece and pawns versus larger amount of pawns – US$ 8
20 examples of Knight endgame – US$ 8
20 examples of Knight better than Bishop – US$ 8
20 examples of 2 Rooks stronger than Queen – US$ 8
20 examples of Practical pawn endgames – US$ 8
20 examples of Practical Rook endgames – US$ 8
For questions about the material or anything else, please send an e-mail to [email protected].



