Very nice game by a 7 year old student :)

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I’d like to present a miniature played by Stefan Musikic, my 7 year old student from Chicago some days ago in the All Grade Championship. Stefan is a 2nd grader. I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did! 🙂

Tactical examples from my dad’s games

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Today we continue to study very nice attacking patterns. Of course, my dad not only tries to create nice examples and attacks but also uses our own “Dembo-rules” :). Will you be able to spot them? 🙂

Unofficial pairings of the first cycle of the Women’s World Championship

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Since the November rating list is out, I was able to find the unofficial pairings of the Women’s World Championship’s first cycle. It will be a mini match of 2 Classical games and if necessary then rapid, blitz and armageddon game to finally determine the winner of the first cycle :). Hopefully the official pairings will be out soon so everyone can start preparing :).

1. Hou Yifan 2606 – Ranasinghe, S D 1821
2. Humpy Koneru 2610 – Denise Frick 1871
3. Anna Muzychuk 2586 – Amina Mezioud 2055
4. Zhao Xue 2565 – Natalia Khoudgarian 2138
5. Kateryna Lahno 2553 – Mona Khaled 2155
6. Nadezhda Kosintseva 2539 – Melissa Castrillon Gomez 2159
7. Viktorija Cmilyte 2524 – Ingrid Aliaga Fernandez 2175
8. Marie Sebag 2521 – Irina Berezina 2190
9. Valentina Gunina 2517 – Gu Xiaobing 2209
10. Pia Cramling 2516 – Shayester Ghader Pour 2219
11. Tatiana Kosintseva 2515 – Madina Davletbayeva 2220
12. Harika Dronavalli 2512 – Soumya Swaminathan 2251
13. Bella Khotenashvili 2504 – Maritza Arribas Robaina 2273
14. Alexandra Kosteniuk 2501 – Tatev Abrahamyan 2304
15. Ju Wenjun 2501 – Атоша Пуркашиян 2321
16. Antoaneta Stefanova 2491 – Marina Romanko 2355
17. Zhu Chen 2491 – Nastassia Ziazulkina 2367
18. Anna Zatonskih 2489 – Carolina Lujan 2369
19. Natalia Pogonina 2478 – Svetlana Matveeva 2377
20. Mariya Muzychuk 2476 – Cristina-Adela Foisor 2383
21. Elina Danielian 2476 – Sofiko Khukhashvili 2383
22. Hoang Thanh Trang 2470 – Evgenija Ovod 2384
23. Irina Krush 2470 – Li Ruofan 2394
24. Alisa Galliamova 2468 – Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 2409
25. Olga Girya 2467 – Iweta Rajlich 2410
26. Huang Qian 2465 – Shen Yang 2413
27. Lilit Mkrtchian 2457 – Ketevan Arakhamia 2414
28. Lela Javakhishvili 2455 – Anastasia Bodnaruk 2415
29. Elena Dembo 2454 – Nino Khurtsidze 2428
30. Anna Ushenina 2452 – Cori T Deysi 2429
31. Natalia Zhukova 2451 – Guo Qi 2432
32. Monika Socko 2445 – Elmira Skripchenko 2441

You can find the list of players on the official website of the tournament – http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/?page_id=200

November Rating list – Top 100 Women November 2012

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1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2705 0 1976
2 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2610 7 1987
3 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2606 6 1994
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2586 6 1990
5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2565 4 1985
6 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2555 0 1987
7 Lahno, Kateryna g UKR 2553 15 1989
8 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2539 0 1985
9 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2524 6 1983
10 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2521 0 1986
11 Gunina, Valentina m RUS 2517 10 1989
12 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2516 6 1963
13 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2515 0 1986
14 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2512 7 1991
15 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2504 0 1988
16 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2501 6 1984
17 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2501 4 1991
18 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2501 0 1987
19 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2491 5 1979
20 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2491 0 1976
21 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2489 11 1978
22 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2482 0 1985
23 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2478 5 1985
24 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2476 15 1992
25 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2476 7 1978
26 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2470 9 1980
27 Krush, Irina m USA 2470 4 1983
28 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2468 0 1972
29 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2467 12 1991
30 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2465 4 1986
31 Xu, Yuhua g CHN 2465 0 1976
32 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2464 4 1991
33 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2461 7 1982
34 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2457 7 1982
35 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2455 11 1984
36 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2454 0 1983
37 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag m MGL 2453 4 1987
38 Ushenina, Anna m UKR 2452 9 1985
39 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2451 9 1979
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