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Updating the theory!

By Yelena Dembo | February 4, 2014 - 14:30 |February 4, 2014 Theoretical material
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It took me quite some time to update the KID with the help of Kotronias’s book (what to do, the book is 720 pages long :))) and now going to be updating the French!

CK Panov and others

By Yelena Dembo | June 28, 2013 - 13:13 |June 28, 2013 Theoretical material, Tournaments
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It is going to be busy few (or more :)) days as I update my CK theory! In the meantime I noticed an interesting mini-match starting soon between Carlsen and Predojevic. They will be playing today and tomorrow. You can watch the games live here.

Carlsen’s bio for those who are not fully familiar with his strength.

Click here for the bio of Predojevic.

Lessons and theory

By Yelena Dembo | May 17, 2013 - 11:31 |May 17, 2013 Lessons, Theoretical material
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Having an incredibly busy week with mostly 4-7.5 hours of lessons every day! Still, this weekend is a little more relaxed, so I have time to update my theoretical material from the Informator and New In Chess magazine. Updating the theory is highly important as many students of mine very often ask for advice, not to mention just going over theoretical lines with them.

The Open Spanish by GM Victor Mikhalevsky

By Yelena Dembo | February 7, 2013 - 11:20 |February 7, 2013 Theoretical material
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Today I started to analyse and input into Chessbase material and my own ideas from the new book by Quality Chess – “The Open Spanish” by GM Victor Mikhalevsky, published this year. Looks like a very good work, still in order to understand the system fully, one has to analyse it a lot him/herself!

French Advanced

By Yelena Dembo | November 17, 2012 - 08:30 |January 4, 2013 Theoretical material
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Currently working on collecting new material on Advanced Variation in the French. Since it is one of the most popular systems in the French, having a lot of material is never enough :). It is necessary to constantly update it!

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