Daily sale of various opening, middlegame and endgame material

Starting from today, I will be posting daily offers on various materials – openings, middlegame (positional and tactical) and endgame. The games are usually well analysed and if you have any questions while studying the material, let me know and I will help. It is possible to buy it using PayPal and sending payments to yelena@yelenadembo.com. Material will be sent in pgn/cbv files directly to your e-mail addresses.

So, here are the offers:

Openings – Sicilian from B20 to B99 – US$ 25 (instead of US$ 30), Caro-Kann – B10 to B19 – US$ 15 (instead of US$ 20).

Middlegame – Isolated pawn 10 examples – US$ 4 (instead of US$ 5), using an open file – 10 examples – US$ 4 (instead of US$ 5), R versus 2 minor pieces – 10 examples (US$ 4 (instead of US$ 5).

Endgame – Practical Bishop endgames – 10 examples – US$ 4 (instead of 5), Practical Rook endgames – 10 examples – US$ 4 (instead of US$ 5).

If you have any questions about the material, send an e-mail to yelena@yelenadembo.com.

Norway Chess 2015

Carlsen, Grischuk, Gustafsson

Carlsen, Grischuk, Gustafsson


(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)

Topalov won again and is leading with 4.5 out of 5.

Results of the 5th round

Hammer 1 0-1 3.5 Topalov
Nakamura 3 1/2 2.5 Anand
Vachier-Lagrave 2 1/2 2.5 Giri
Aronian 1 1-0 2 Caruana
Carlsen 0.5 1-0 2 Grischuk

Standings after 5 rounds

Topalov 4.5
Nakamura 3.5
Giri, Anand 3
Vachier-Lagrave 2.5
Grischuk, Caruana, Aronian 2
Carlsen 1.5
Hammer 1

Games of the round

Pairings of the 6th round

GM Grischuk Alexander 2781 – GM Topalov Veselin 2798
GM Caruana Fabiano 2805 – GM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2677
GM Giri Anish 2773 – GM Aronian Levon 2780
GM Anand Viswanathan 2804 – GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2723
GM Carlsen Magnus 2876 – GM Nakamura Hikaru 2802

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