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| May-07-06 | | Chess Classics: Yelana, do you think playing at the age of 3 might have had a slight psychological effect on your opponents? :-) Good luck on your book!
Regards,
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Jun-06-06
 | | chessgames.com: Yelena, we added a few more of your games, included your well annotated Y Dembo vs D Driamin, 2000. Thanks for the submissions! |
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| Jun-23-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Thanks very much <chessgames.com>!! |
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| Jun-29-06 | | MuhammedShaik: <YElena Dembo> Hi! I am trying to contact Shirin Navabi, Iranian Chessplayer for quite a while. I am a huge fan. I was advised by a fellow Kibitzer that you may be of assistance. Could you please provide me with contact info (email, webpage, etc) thanks. |
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| Jul-04-06 | | Mameluk: On www.chessfed.gr/teams2006 you can watch Greek league with Dembo, Navara, Dreev, Azmaiparashvili or Inarkiev. Quite interesting league with many boards and as far as I understand just 2 allowed foreigners? and 2 women boards. The match of the stars Navara-Dreev should be played today. |
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| Jul-21-06 | | Yelena Dembo: <MuhammedShaik> Unfortunately I dont have any contact with her. Hope you find somebody else to help you:-) |
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| Jul-25-06 | | Edwin Meyer: Hello Yelena! How about our game at GameKnot? You are about to time-out for the 2nd time. Do you want to continue it? I wouldn't like seeing you lose on time. Or me winning on time for that matter. We could call it a draw if you want to end it. |
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Aug-01-06
 | | BishopBerkeley: Nice pictures of Ms. Dembo and her fellow competitors at the Biel Chess Festival: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/acc...
(Scroll down for more photos and links to profiles.)
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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| Aug-18-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <Edwin Meyer>, Unfortunately my account there was supended. Very strange. And I lost all my messages there and the games naturally:-( Very pity. I wrote to the admins there but didnt get any answer... What to do:-) |
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| Aug-18-06 | | ganstaman: Hi <Yelena>: I like your annotations and comments on your games. Makes me think about buying your book... :) Actually, how much is 22 euros in American $, and how do we pay you (from your site it seems the book would be ordered by email through you)? I do have a question for you about one of your games (sorry to bring up a loss, it was exciting anyway). P Cramling vs Y Dembo, 2006 . As we noted there, the pawn structures were interesting. Have you found a way to save your game there, or did your opponent simply win it too early? Interestingly, I found this game of yours: Y Dembo vs I Krush, 1996 , where you also put two pawns directly opposing your opponent's kingside pawns. Very provocative, very nice! |
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| Aug-20-06 | | Edwin Meyer: <Yelena>: They must not know who they're dealing with. They should consider themselves fortunate to have someone like you playing on their server. Well, too bad about the game. I tried postponing it a second time, but i was not allowed. Not that i was expecting to win if we played it out ;-) |
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| Aug-20-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hello <ganstaman>,
First of all, the book costs US$28 (22 euro), please e-mail me at yelena@yelenadembo.com for further details on how to buy it.
Secondly, in the game against Pia, g6-g5 immediately was much better instead of Nc6 and some other moves were better as well. It is a very interesting game!
Also my game against Krush is not the only such game of mine. I have a large collection of examples of such sacrifices on both sides! If you study at least some 20 examples, you will know this method very well! Of course, the idea is not to know that there is move g6 or h6, but first how to prepare it and what to do after these moves! |
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| Aug-20-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Thank you <Edwin Meyer>, but they actually knew who I am:-) They gave me a silver pawn I believe:-) |
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| Aug-22-06 | | Yelena Dembo: A lot of people e-mail me with questions on how to purchase the book, so here are the possibilities: tranfering the money by PayPal, bank transfer, sending money in envelope, sending a cheque, paying on ICC, Playchess or WCN chess servers. Please e-mail me or leave a message here if you need any more details. Also you can leave me your e-mail address with the questions together, so I can answer you directly!
Good luck! |
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| Aug-22-06 | | Stevens: Hi <yelena>. I know this is a common question but could i just ask : how do you divide your time (roughly) when working on chess. How much do you put into training games, opening theory, general theory, tactical work etc etc. And how much time each week do you spend studying chess? Thanks! Sorry again if you get asked this all the time. |
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| Aug-23-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <Stevens>, indeed this is a very usual question and I explain this and many other things in my 2nd book "Conversation with a Professional Trainer - Methods of Positional Play".
Usually I study myself about 4-6 hours every day. Of course, more if possible:-) |
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Aug-24-06
 | | OhioChessFan: I have 2 questions.
1. Did you know how unusual Bc4 was when you played it in this game?
Y Dembo vs E Danielian, 2005
2. Are you going to play in the consultation game against Nickel? |
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| Aug-25-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <OhioChessFan>, yes I knew it as I prepared it before the game:-) I am not going to play vs Nickel because I have a lot of students and my schedule is too busy. |
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| Aug-25-06 | | schnarre: <Yelena Dembo> I never knew you were on gameknot (losing it in my old age of 33), but I hope that things work out (I'll try to put my 2 cents worth in). If I may ask, what texts do you employ/recommend ('Opening Systems for Competetive Chess Players' is one I keep coming back to)? |
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| Aug-26-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <schnarre>, Thanks:-) Now about the texts. I read mostly Russian literature because Russian is my mother language and Russian chess school is very important for chess education in general. But you refer only to an opening book. Unfortunately a lot of chess-players only study openings and sometimes endgames but not middlegame. I write a lot about in in two my books on tactical and positional middlegame. The 1st one is called "The Very Unusual Book About Chess" and the 2nd is "Conversation with a Professional Trainer - Methods of Positional Play". The 2nd one contains many very useful chess and phychological questions and answers which were asked by my students or students to be. You can see the titles of the chapters and some exerpts from the books on my website - www.yelenadembo.com . |
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Aug-26-06
| | OhioChessFan: <Yelena Dembo> Can you tell quickly how much potential your students have?
Have any surprised you by going far beyond your expectations? |
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| Aug-26-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <OhioChessFan>, it is very easy for a good trainer to see how good is the potential of the student already on the 1st lesson just by looking at his/her 1-2 games and making the necessary conclusions. So after seeing it I say what is good and what is not and improve it during our lessons. I can say that my students never had worse results than what I thought and many of them increased more than 600 rating points in a one year period! |
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| Aug-26-06 | | schnarre: <Yelena Dembo> Thank you very much M'Lady! I haven't found middlegame study a weakness in most of my opponents--indeed that's where most have trounced me. I'm not much of a tactician: at my height I could only plot 8 moves ahead (these days it's more like 2-3 moves). I'm sure some of my GK games will show that (& rather embarrasingly). |
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| Aug-27-06 | | Yelena Dembo: <schnarre> Good for you:-) I had seen it all my life - my opponent's, my students, team mates, etc |
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Aug-27-06
 | | Domdaniel: Hi <Yelena>
After yesterday's posts I took a good look at your game with Krush. It's a beauty, and incredible to think the players were so young. I was impressed not just by the final attack but also preparatory moves like 20.Bf4! - at first sight it just seems to chase the black queen to where it's going anyway, but it also vacates e3 for the white queen and gains control of e5. Exquisite.
As for the g6/h6 pawn situation - it's too dynamic to be classified as a structure - I'm fascinated by your idea of collecting games where this situation occurs. I tend to play less nerve-racking stuff, but I'll try to do the same with the kind of attacking situations that occur in my games. Thanks for a really good tip (even if it's a while before you see this). |
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