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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Thursday Quiz
FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix June/July 2014
(Photo taken from the official site)
Hou drew the last round’s game against Danielian and won the 1st place with 9 points out of 11! Ju and Danielian shared 2nd-3rd with 7 points.
Results of the 11th round
GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 ½ – ½ GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488
GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 ½ – ½ GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541
GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 1 – 0 WGM Ju Wenjun 2532
GM Danielian Elina 2460 ½ – ½ GM Hou Yifan 2629
WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 0 – 1 GM Zhao Xue 2538
GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 1 – 0 GM Koneru Humpy 2613
Games of the last round
Final standings
1 GM Hou Yifan 2629 CHN 9
2 WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 CHN 7
3 GM Danielian Elina 2460 ARM 7
4 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 GEO 6½
5 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 BUL 6
6 GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 IND 6
7 GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 UKR 5½
8 GM Koneru Humpy 2613 IND 5½
9 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 RUS 5½
10 GM Zhao Xue 2538 CHN 3½
11 GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 GEO 3
12 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 UZB 1½
Wednesday Quiz
FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix June/July 2014
(Photo taken from the official site)
The World Champion Hou Yifan became the winner of the event (8.5 points) with one round to go after drawing quite fast versus Kosteniuk. Ju is 2nd with 7 and Danielian is 3rd with 6.5 points
Results of the 10th round
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 ½ – ½ GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518
GM Koneru Humpy 2613 1 – 0 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332
GM Zhao Xue 2538 0 – 1 GM Danielian Elina 2460
GM Hou Yifan 2629 ½ – ½ GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532
WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 1 – 0 GM Muzychuk Anna 2561
GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 ½ – ½ GM Dronavalli Harika 2503
Standings after 10 rounds
1 GM Hou Yifan 2629 CHN 8½
2 WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 CHN 7
3 GM Danielian Elina 2460 ARM 6½
4 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 GEO 6
5 GM Koneru Humpy 2613 IND 5½
6 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 BUL 5½
7 GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 IND 5½
8 GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 UKR 5
9 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 RUS 4½
10 GM Zhao Xue 2538 CHN 2½
11 GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 GEO 2
12 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 UZB 1½
Games of the 10th round
Pairings of the 11th round
GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 – GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488
GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 – GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541
GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 – WGM Ju Wenjun 2532
GM Danielian Elina 2460 – GM Hou Yifan 2629
WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 – GM Zhao Xue 2538
GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 – GM Koneru Humpy 2613




