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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.
Lessons happen on Playchess & ChessRex.com. I use Teams and Google Meet.
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.
Just US$ 5 for monthly subscription to weekly e-mails with middlegame/endgame material
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
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.-
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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014
The 2nd round begins in half an hour! Watch it live on http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/live2014/main.htm.
Zurich Chess Challenge 2014
This extremely high level event starts tomorrow! The participants are:
Carlsen NOR 2872
Aronian ARM 2812
Nakamura USA 2789
Caruana ITA 2782
Gelfand ISR 2777
Anand IND 2773
Classical games will be played from 30th of January to the 3rd of February and a Rapid event will take place on the 4th.
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014

(Photo taken from the official site)
The Elite players didn’t have many problems last evening as the first 18 players won their games against lower opposition! The next round promises an interesting struggle again!
Results of top 10 boards
1 128 FM Sanchez Jerez Emilio Miguel 2287 0 0 – 1 0 GM Adams Michael 2754 1
2 2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2745 0 1 – 0 0 Lombaers Peter 2255 136
3 134 IM Lederman Leon 2257 0 0 – 1 0 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2739 3
4 4 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2737 0 1 – 0 0 IM Haugli Petter 2278 131
5 133 Gukhvat Peter 2268 0 0 – 1 0 GM Eljanov Pavel 2733 5
6 6 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2715 0 1 – 0 0 Deac Bogdan-Daniel 2289 127
7 129 Sos Andreu Eric 2285 0 0 – 1 0 GM Kamsky Gata 2709 7
8 8 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2707 0 1 – 0 0 WGM Maisuradze Nino 2279 130
9 132 FM Proudian Armen 2273 0 0 – 1 0 GM Harikrishna P. 2706 9
10 10 GM Navara David 2702 0 1 – 0 0 Hommerson Paul 2255 135
Top 10 pairings of the 2nd round
1 1 GM Adams Michael 2754 1 – 1 GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2476 68
2 70 GM Flear Glenn C 2471 1 – 1 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2745 2
3 3 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2739 1 – 1 GM Larino Nieto David 2465 72
4 71 GM Galego Luis 2465 1 – 1 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2737 4
5 5 GM Eljanov Pavel 2733 1 – 1 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2458 74
6 73 IM Docx Stefan 2458 1 – 1 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2715 6
7 7 GM Kamsky Gata 2709 1 – 1 WGM Guo Qi 2450 76
8 75 IM Pardo Simon David 2450 1 – 1 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2707 8
9 9 GM Harikrishna P. 2706 1 – 1 GM Akesson Ralf 2447 78
10 77 GM Zhukova Natalia 2449 1 – 1 GM Navara David 2702 10

