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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]).
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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.
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FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix June/July 2014
(Photo taken from the official site)
The World Champion won against Muzychuk and is now a whole 2 points ahead of Ju, who has 6 points. Dzagnidze and Danielian share 3rd-4th places with 5.5 points.
Results of the 9th round
GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 0 – 1 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488
GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 ½ – ½ WGM Ju Wenjun 2532
GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 0 – 1 GM Hou Yifan 2629
GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 ½ – ½ GM Zhao Xue 2538
GM Danielian Elina 2460 1 – 0 GM Koneru Humpy 2613
WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 1 – 0 GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518
Standings after 9 rounds
1 GM Hou Yifan 2629 CHN 8
2 WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 CHN 6
3 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 GEO 5½
4 GM Danielian Elina 2460 ARM 5½
5 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 BUL 5
6 GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 UKR 5
7 GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 IND 5
8 GM Koneru Humpy 2613 IND 4½
9 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 RUS 4
10 GM Zhao Xue 2538 CHN 2½
11 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 UZB 1½
12 GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 GEO 1½
Games of the 9th round
Pairings of the 10th round
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 – GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518
GM Koneru Humpy 2613 – WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332
GM Zhao Xue 2538 – GM Danielian Elina 2460
GM Hou Yifan 2629 – GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532
WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 – GM Muzychuk Anna 2561
GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 – GM Dronavalli Harika 2503
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FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix June/July 2014
(Photo taken from the official site)
A very fighting round, even if one can’t see it from the results (only one resultative game)! 🙂 Hou maintains her 1.5 points lead (7 points), while Ju and Dzagnidze kept their 2nd-3rd place.
Results of the 8th round
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 1 – 0 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332
GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 ½ – ½ GM Danielian Elina 2460
GM Koneru Humpy 2613 ½ – ½ GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532
GM Zhao Xue 2538 ½ – ½ GM Muzychuk Anna 2561
GM Hou Yifan 2629 ½ – ½ GM Dronavalli Harika 2503
WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 ½ – ½ GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541
Standings after 8 rounds
1 GM Hou Yifan 2629 CHN 7
2 WGM Ju Wenjun 2532 CHN 5½
3 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 GEO 5½
4 GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 UKR 5
5 GM Koneru Humpy 2613 IND 4½
6 GM Danielian Elina 2460 ARM 4½
7 GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 IND 4½
8 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488 BUL 4
9 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 RUS 3½
10 GM Zhao Xue 2538 CHN 2
11 GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518 GEO 1½
12 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 UZB ½
Games of the 8th round
Today is a rest day!
Pairings of the 9th round
GM Dzagnidze Nana 2541 – GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2488
GM Dronavalli Harika 2503 – WGM Ju Wenjun 2532
GM Muzychuk Anna 2561 – GM Hou Yifan 2629
GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2532 – GM Zhao Xue 2538
GM Danielian Elina 2460 – GM Koneru Humpy 2613
WGM Muminova Nafisa 2332 – GM Khotenashvili Bela 2518




