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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
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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3rd Al Ain Chess Classic 2014
GM Nigalidze leads with 5.5 points. Zhigalko, Onischuk and Krivoruchko share 2nd with 5 points.
Top results of the 6th round
1 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2681 4 0 – 1 4½ GM Nigalidze Gaioz GEO 2536
2 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 2576 4 0 – 1 4 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2688
3 GM Babujian Levon ARM 2471 4 0 – 1 4 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2672
4 GM Petrosian Tigran L. ARM 2651 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2599
5 GM Shankland Samuel L USA 2642 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Gopal G.N. IND 2580
6 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2566 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 2621
7 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2614 4 1 – 0 4 GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian ROU 2580
8 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2599 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2577
9 GM Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2661 3½ 1 – 0 3½ GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2511
10 GM Mamedov Rauf AZE 2658 3½ 0 – 1 3½ GM Abasov Nijat AZE 2509
Top players after 6 rounds
1 GM Nigalidze Gaioz GEO 2536 5.5 20.5 18.50 2595
2 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2672 5.0 22.0 17.75 2511
3 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2614 5.0 20.5 17.00 2507
4 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2688 5.0 20.5 16.50 2578
5 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 2621 4.5 21.0 15.50 2559
6 GM Petrosian Tigran L. ARM 2651 4.5 21.0 15.25 2569
7 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2566 4.5 20.5 15.75 2503
8 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2577 4.5 20.5 15.00 2448
9 GM Shankland Samuel L USA 2642 4.5 20.5 14.50 2513
10 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2599 4.5 20.0 15.50 2476
Games of the round
Top pairings of the 7th round
1 GM Nigalidze Gaioz GEO 2536 5½ – 5 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2688
2 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2672 5 – 5 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2614
3 GM Gopal G.N. IND 2580 4½ – 4½ GM Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2661
4 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2577 4½ – 4½ GM Petrosian Tigran L. ARM 2651
5 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2566 4½ – 4½ GM Shankland Samuel L USA 2642
6 GM Paichadze Luka GEO 2561 4½ – 4½ GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2625
7 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 2621 4½ – 4½ GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 2533
8 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij UKR 2618 4½ – 4½ GM Grover Sahaj IND 2505
9 GM Abasov Nijat AZE 2509 4½ – 4½ GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2599
10 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2599 4½ – 4½ GM Arun Prasad S. IND 2482
Nutcracker Match of the Generations 2014
The Kings drew the Classical event against the Princes(16-16).
Results of the 4th round
Fedoseev 3 1-0 5 Shirov
Dubov 2 1-0 3 Dreev
Morozevich 3 1-0 3 Artemiev
Leko 2 1/2 3 Oparin
Games of the round


