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| Aug-28-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <Domdaniel>, thanks for your interesting message! The idea of collecting games on this method is to be able to understand in which positions it can be good or bad and what to do after this sacrifice! After you see some 20-30 games on this idea you start playing the Sicilian with both colors much better! |
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| Sep-01-06 | | schnarre: <Yelena Dembo> For beginning players I've traditionally recommended the Torre Attack as White (citing Zsusa Polgar's game vs Russel Dive, Wellington 1988, as a textbook example of its use). ...as for myself, I'm somewhat of the notorious "Mr. 1. a3" |
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| Sep-02-06 | | Yelena Dembo: <schnarre> This is a big mistake actually! Because for beginners it is very important to see very nice attacks, nice games at first to get aquainted with the ideas and possibilities of chess in general. Polgar plays this opening very rarely and played it when she already was a very good player. It is possible to play such openings only when you have at least 2000. All the good trainers including Dvoretsky say this and nobody gives such openings to beginners and more over reccomend this!! As for yourself, you can play anything you like, even a3:-))) |
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| Sep-02-06 | | square dance: hi <yelena>. which openings do you recommend for beginners and intermmediate players? ive always thought that beginners should play 1.e4 and respond to 1.e4 with e5, and 1.d4 with d5 but it would be nice to get the opinion of a strong player. :-D |
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| Sep-02-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <square dance>, this is a very good question! Of course, you are right about 1.e4 for white. For Black I would reccomend 1...e5 and 1...c5 as these two moves give very interesting play in the middlegame which is very important for the players! Then on 1.d4 I always recommend 1...Nf6 and King's Indian or Gruenfeld (at least some 10-12 moves for strength you mentioned) because again these openings give very interesting and often nice play! Attacks, active pieces, etc. |
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Sep-02-06
 | | Domdaniel: <schnarre> Possibly we shouldn't invade Yelena's space with this discussion, but your comments on 1.a3 are interesting. As you'll know, the most common idea is 1.a3 e5 2.c4 with an English/Reversed Sicilian.
I've been experimenting with 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.a3, aiming for those Indian-style structures where a3 is useful, like a reversed Benoni or Pirc. For some reason, I do very well against computers in these lines - much better than my score with mainline openings. The idea of playing Nf3 first is akin to the difference between Nimzo-Larsen 1.b3 and the Nimzowitsch Attack proper. And it so happened that the first two games I found in the databases were attacking White wins in less than 20 moves. <Yelena Dembo> - as you say, this isn't the kind of stuff one suggests as a trainer. But I wonder how early in a training program it might be introduced? If a student has a good grasp of 1.e4 and basic ideas of development and attack, then (some) offbeat openings are a way of showing them that you shouldn't rely on theory. Or would it just confuse them, do you think? |
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| Sep-02-06 | | shaikh123: dear Yalena hi,i am interested in learning chess but the problem is that that i donn't know where to find a good trainer.is internet a good place to find one? thanks and waiting for your reply. |
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| Sep-02-06 | | square dance: <yelena> thanks for the info! |
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| Sep-03-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <Domdaniel>, of course, it is possible to show such openings but it is not good especially for beginners as these offbeat openings are without principles usually and are only to confuse and surprise the opponent. This means that it is not the best because if you want to play good you need to play good openings with theory. Only then you can get good positions! Of course, you dont need to only study lines with 25-30 moves of theory but it will be useful to know at least 10-15 and to know the plans and ideas for later. While with offbeat openings you need to know the plans and ideas already from move 4-5 often and the positions are only playable but not better. |
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| Sep-03-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <shaikh123>, yes internet is the best place to find. You can log on to www.chessclub.com for example and find a good trainer on this server. You will be able to find the info on anyone who teaches there. |
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| Sep-03-06 | | shaikh123: yelena hi, thanks for your kind reply. |
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| Sep-03-06 | | biglo: Hi Yelena. I smiled when I saw your comments about not playing the Torre —"All the good trainers including Dvoretsky say this and nobody gives such openings to beginners and more over reccomend this!!" In his book "Nigel Short on Chess" Short states — "The Torre Attack is a very handy and easy-to-learn system." This book is very much aimed at beginners. |
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| Sep-04-06 | | Yelena Dembo: <biglo>, I understand what you are saying. I know Nigel very well, we live in the same city and I had seen him in many Olympiads. The problem is that trainers never recommend it and it is quite understandble because this opening doesnt teach principles, how to attack and many other things. It only shows some moves and an unclear opening as it doesnt give advantage. Of course, if you like you can play it yourself but all my students play 1.e4, have very good results and a very nice style:-) |
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Sep-04-06
 | | OhioChessFan: <Yelena Dembo> have you read any of Staunton's works on Shakespeare? |
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| Sep-04-06 | | schnarre: <Domdaniel> Going for reversed Indian positions is perfectly reasonable! Have you tried a reverse Gruenfeld with a3 yet? <Yelena Dembo> My thanks M'Lady!!!! |
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| Sep-05-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Hi <OhioChessFan>, no I havent. |
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| Sep-10-06 | | Zebra: <yelenadembo> I was wondering what you think the earliest age is for a child to be introduced to chess (if there is an earliest age). You for example started incredibly young. How did you first get interested? I have been thinking about this because a friend of mine has two very bright kids aged 4 and 2. |
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| Sep-10-06 | | Yelena Dembo: <Zebra>, this is a very good question. Because the kids are still small, the parents need to make them be interested in something. In general 2 - 2.5 is a very good age but it depends on if the parents are good teachers and especially kids teachers! Also there must be a system how to teach! |
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| Sep-10-06 | | Zebra: <yelenadembo> Many thanks for this advice. My friend plays chess occasionally, mainly with me, but might not be a particularly good teacher (at least of chess). I might be able to give him some good material - I liked Bott and Morrison's series "Chess for Children", for example, though there is probably better stuff around now, including on the internet. |
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| Sep-22-06 | | schnarre: <Yelena Dembo> An old acquaintance of mine (NM Jack Mallory), regularly recommended the book 'Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur', as it explains each game discussed move-by-move & has an easily-read format. |
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| Sep-25-06 | | schnarre: <Yelena Dembo> I looked over a few of your past games on gameknot (loved your 10. Nd5 vs diakanos). I'm still trying to find out what happened (no word as yet). |
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| Sep-29-06 | | Yelena Dembo: Thank <schnarre> :-) Its ok, dont bother with gameknot please! I dont have time to play correspondence now anyway:-) A lot of work on the Gruenfeld book (by contract with one English publishing house) and lots of other things like students, hobbies, etc |
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Sep-30-06
 | | Open Defence: <'Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur'> excellent book IMHO... great to see the basic ideas behind moves and move a step up from the simpler tactics to learning how to make those tactical strokes possible.. |
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| Sep-30-06 | | Knight13: <Yelena Dembo> Who is the toughest opponent you've ever faced/played? |
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Oct-24-06
 | | BishopBerkeley: I see that Ms. Dembo is #16 on the FIDE Top 50 Women [in the World] List: http://fide.com/ratings/top.phtml?l...
Quite an achievement!
YAY!! Congratulations, Ms. Dembo!
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)
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