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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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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
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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SportAccord World Mind Games 2013 – Blitz (Men)

(Photo taken from the official site)
Aronian is leading with 8.5 points out of 10 and is a whole point ahead of Nepomniaschij (7.5 points) and 2 points ahead of Mamedyarov – 6.5 points.
Standings after 10 rounds (of 30)
1 GM Aronian Levon 2817 ARM 8½
2 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2830 RUS 7½
3 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2721 AZE 6½
4 GM Grischuk Alexander 2798 RUS 6
5 GM Le Quang Liem 2841 VIE 6
6 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2825 FRA 6
7 GM Radjabov Teimour 2755 AZE 6
8 GM Karjakin Sergey 2837 RUS 5½
9 GM Kamsky Gata 2671 USA 5
10 GM Wang Yue 2723 CHN 5
11 GM Giri Anish 2747 NED 3½
12 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2750 UKR 3½
13 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2774 UKR 3
14 GM Wang Hao 2698 CHN 3
15 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2769 CUB 2½
16 GM Leko Peter 2722 HUN 2½
SportAccord World Mind Games 2013 – Blitz (Women)

(Photo taken from the official site)
GM Gunina is leading the women’s event with 8 points out of 10 games. GM Muzychuk is 2nd with 7.5, while Women’s World Champion GM Hou Yifan is 3rd with 6.5
Standings after 10 rounds (of 30!)
1 GM Gunina Valentina 2527 RUS 8
2 GM Muzychuk Anna 2639 SLO 7½
3 GM Hou Yifan 2559 CHN 6½
4 GM Zhao Xue 2471 CHN 6
5 GM Koneru Humpy 2558 IND 5½
6 GM Lagno Kateryna 2532 UKR 5½
7 GM Sebag Marie 2501 FRA 5½
8 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2508 BUL 5
9 GM Ushenina Anna 2489 UKR 5
10 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2612 RUS 4½
11 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2579 GEO 4½
12 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2574 GER 4
13 GM Kosintseva Tatiana 2480 RUS 4
14 GM Cramling Pia 2430 SWE 3
15 GM Cmilyte Viktorija 2532 LTU 3
16 WGM Ju Wenjun 2454 CHN 2½


