An update on chess improvement

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I give lessons on ICC and Playchess servers and use Skype for talking. It is possible to save everything we study + I give homework, if student wants. Usually lessons are private but groups are welcome too! I charge US$40 for 1 hour or US$35 for 1 hour if you purchase 5 lessons in advance.

I teach all phases of chess:

* Theory – have a large collection of my own analysis + updates from hundreds of books on ALL openings

* Middlegame – have a collection of over 30 thousand study-material fragments and games divided into 415 themes

* Tactics – fragments from the same large collection

* Strategy – fragments from the same large collection

* Endgame – fragments from the same large collection

* Game analysis

Dortmund 2014

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Caruana-Ponomariov

Caruana-Ponomariov


(Photo taken from the official Site)

Caruana won the second game in a row and became a sole leader with 2/2.

Standings after 2nd round

Caruana 2
Meier 1.5
Leko, Najditsch, Adams 1
Ponomariov, Baramidze, Kramnik 0.5

Games of the round

Pairings of the 3rd round

Naiditsch – Caruana
Kramnik – Baramidze
Leko – Adams
Ponomariov – Meier

Official Site.

Dortmund 2014

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Meier

Meier


(Photo taken from the official site)

The first round held a surprise for chess fans around the world – Meier (Germany) won against Kramnik (Russia)! Definitely make sure to study this very interesting and positional game if you didn’t manage to catch it live.

Results of the 1st round

Leko, Peter – Ponomariov, Ruslan ½-½
Naiditsch, Arkadij – Adams, Michael ½-½
Kramnik, Vladimir – Meier, Georg 0-1
Baramidze, David – Caruana, Fabiano 0-1

Games of the 1st round

Pairings of the 2nd round

Caruana – Ponomariov
Meier – Leko
Adams – Kramnik
Baramidze – Naiditsch

Official Site.