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Yelena Dembo
Y Dembo 
Photo courtesy of yelenadembo.com  

Number of games in database: 551
Years covered: 1992 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2448
Highest rating achieved in database: 2482
Overall record: +153 -87 =238 (56.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 73 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (125) 
    B43 B48 B30 B87 B45
 French Defense (43) 
    C05 C07 C03 C11 C01
 French Tarrasch (30) 
    C05 C07 C03 C09 C04
 Sicilian Taimanov (26) 
    B48 B45 B46 B49
 Caro-Kann (22) 
    B12 B16 B11 B17 B18
 Scotch Game (22) 
    C45
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (117) 
    B31 B22 B30 B63 B67
 King's Indian (73) 
    E92 E63 E62 E97 E75
 Sicilian Richter-Rauser (33) 
    B67 B63 B65 B60 B62
 English (19) 
    A15 A10 A16
 Queen's Pawn Game (12) 
    A45 D02
 Grunfeld (11) 
    D85 D78 D98 D91 D79
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Y Dembo vs D Driamin, 2000 1-0
   Y Dembo vs V Pejnovic, 1994 1-0
   Y Dembo vs I Krush, 1996 1-0
   Y Dembo vs G Mammadova, 2010 1-0
   Y Dembo vs R Palaj, 1994 1-0
   N Castaneda vs Y Dembo, 2001 0-1
   Y Dembo vs G Szamoskozi, 1999 1-0
   Y Dembo vs E Repkova, 2004 1/2-1/2
   Y Dembo vs N Pentala, 2001 1-0
   Y Dembo vs A Muzychuk, 2011 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Budapest FS04 Elo (1999)
   European Championship (Women) (2005)
   Mediterreanean Championship (2007)
   Budapest FS02 IM-A (2001)
   European Championship (Women) (2006)
   European Championship (Women) (2008)
   European Championship (Women) (2010)
   Cappelle Open (2006)
   Istanbul Olympiad (Women) (2012)
   Dresden Olympiad (Women) (2008)
   European Union Championship (2008)
   European Championship (Women) (2007)
   Turin Olympiad (Women) (2006)
   Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (Women) (2010)
   European Championship (2009)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Yelena Dembo's collection - women chess bites:) by Yelena Dembo
   spasskey69's favorite games by spasskey69
   spasskey69's favorite games by rpn4

GAMES ANNOTATED BY DEMBO: [what is this?]
   Y Dembo vs D Driamin, 2000
   Y Dembo vs I Krush, 1996
   Y Dembo vs R Palaj, 1994

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament
   N Khurtsidze vs Y Dembo (Nov-12-12) 1-0
   Y Dembo vs N Khurtsidze (Nov-11-12) 1/2-1/2
   Y Dembo vs M Aulia (Sep-09-12) 0-1
   B C Yildiz Kadioglu vs Y Dembo (Sep-07-12) 1/2-1/2
   Y Dembo vs D Vazquez Maccarini (Sep-06-12) 1-0

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YELENA DEMBO
(born Dec-08-1983, 41 years old) Russia (federation/nationality Greece)

[what is this?]

Yelena Dembo was born in Penza, Russia. At only 3 years and 9 months, she played chess in an under-13 tournament and became rated. When she was 7, her family emigrated to Israel, where her parents opened a chess academy. She was Israeli champion among the girls five times, including once in the category under 20 years. She became a WGM in 2001 and Men's IM in 2003.

She is an eight time medalist of World and European Youth and Women Championships, including winning the first place in Girl's Under 20 European Rapid Championship in 2002. She won the Bykova's Memorial (women's WGM event) in December 2004. She won the bronze medal in Women's European Individual Championship in Moldova 2005 and scored 6.5/11 (TPR 2464) at the 12th European Individual Championship (2011), which included a 4/8 (+2 -2 =4) result against her 8 GM opponents in that event. She qualified for the Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2012), but lost in the first round to Georgian IM Nino Khurtsidze.

Dembo made her first men's GM norm in the Hamburg open, 2005.

http://yelenadembo.com/

Wikipedia article: Yelena Dembo

Last updated: 2020-08-20 20:41:26

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 page 1 of 23; games 1-25 of 551  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Y Dembo vs A Peterson 0-1271992Wch U10 GirlsB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
2. S S Farhat Willemstein vs Y Dembo ½-½441992Wch U10 GirlsB70 Sicilian, Dragon Variation
3. Y Dembo vs O Avraam 1-0571993Ch-Israel(men), 1/8C80 Ruy Lopez, Open
4. Y Dembo vs N Azarova  1-0471993Wch U10 GirlsC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
5. Y Dembo vs V Pejnovic 1-0101994EU-ch U12 GirlsB30 Sicilian
6. Y Dembo vs R Palaj 1-0271994Ch-Israel(men), 1/4B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
7. J B Rasmussen vs Y Dembo  0-1451994EU-ch U12 Disney GirlsB10 Caro-Kann
8. Kasparov vs Y Dembo 1-0301994Kasparov Clock Simul, 15b Tel AvivA45 Queen's Pawn Game
9. Y Dembo vs I Krush 1-0301996Wch U14 Disney GirlsB89 Sicilian
10. E Moser vs Y Dembo  ½-½251996Wch U14 Disney GirlsA07 King's Indian Attack
11. Y Wang vs Y Dembo  1-0331996Wch U14 GirlsB40 Sicilian
12. C Moshina vs Y Dembo  1-0291996Wch U14 GirlsB81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack
13. L Javakhishvili vs Y Dembo 1-0171997EU-ch U14 GirlsA06 Reti Opening
14. Y Dembo vs T Nguyen  0-1691998Budapest FS12 IM-AB11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4
15. G Pinter vs Y Dembo  ½-½671998Budapest FS12 IM-AA07 King's Indian Attack
16. A Czebe vs Y Dembo  1-0291998Budapest FS12 IM-AB57 Sicilian
17. Y Dembo vs T Farkas  ½-½281998Budapest FS12 IM-AB87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5
18. E Szalanczy vs Y Dembo  1-0451998Budapest FS12 IM-AB62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
19. Y Dembo vs N Resika  ½-½201998Budapest FS12 IM-AC30 King's Gambit Declined
20. J Dudas vs Y Dembo  ½-½391998Budapest FS12 IM-AD91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
21. Y Dembo vs G Jamrich  1-0301998Budapest FS12 IM-AC01 French, Exchange
22. A Jakab vs Y Dembo  ½-½121998Budapest FS12 IM-AC01 French, Exchange
23. Y Dembo vs J Bergre  ½-½201999Budapest FS04 EloB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
24. D Fliszar vs Y Dembo  0-1401999Budapest FS04 EloA15 English
25. Y Dembo vs V Vass  ½-½641999Budapest FS04 EloC36 King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense
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Feb-11-06  Fan of Leko: Those are some bad photos, KV. Peter's wife needs to skip 2nd helpings, or buy her jeans a few sizes larger.
Feb-11-06  kvcs: <Yelena Dembo> <SBC>

At your site http://www.yelenadembo.com/
you state that you play at ICC, Playchess.com and World Chess Network.

Question A => Have you played any Correspondence Chess? If so, you may like to try http://www.cowplay.com/ Question B => Also, other than Standard Chess, do you play any other Chess Variants such as FischerRandom or Chess960 [should be Chess959 as Standard Chess is still possible using the random selection process]?

Several <KVCS> players have tried this site, and have found it acceptable. The only one there now engaged in Standard Chess is Agt71/Marie. She is the top female player presently [ELO 1650+]. The best women players to play there have been Thegreatpolgar/Nicki the Dane, Caissad4/Angela, Phoenix/Alexia, MissWorld/Diana, and SBC/batgirl [a member here at Chessgames.com and consummate Chess historian and archiver]. All of these fine players, but MissWorld, have left Cowplay presently.

Unfortunately, Agt71 is an outpatient at a hospital and will be taking a long rest period when her last three games are done. She was recognized by our Chess organization as the First Legion of Kings World Champion. Legion of Kings has no Pawns [only nine Kings]. http://www.cowplay.com/index.php?cm... [#1] on left hand column, go to HELP section and click on Legion of Kings. http://mcmablog.blogspot.com/2005/1... [#2] This announcement has not been officially made anywhere else. Neither has any other Chess organization recognized her title.

Zsuzsa Polgar was asked the same type questions. She plays only the FischerRandom and graciously declined an inviattion to play the Legion of Kings variant at Cowplay.com. However, Ms Polgar was the one to challenge Marie to a Blitz FischerRandon match!! This is being set up now.

Question C => When Marie is better, would you like to play her in Cowplay.com in the Legion of Kings Variant?

Thank you for you time.

URL
#1 http://www.cowplay.com/
index.php?cmd=home
#2 http://mcmablog.blogspot.com/
2005/12/12-1159fr23de05-twelfth-post.html

AO for Molly

Feb-11-06  HannibalSchlecter: In my mind, there's something not quite right about mixing chess and beauty contests. One has an aura of sophistication and intelligence, the other comes off as more of a shallow event. Chess is chess. Beautiful women challenging each other belongs somewhere else like on the Jerry Springer show. It seems the intended idea is to try and broaden the appeal of chess and inject it with new excitement, but I think the result achieves the opposite effect by cheapening the game, hurting its mystique by associating itself with something tacky.
Feb-11-06  Mameluk: <www.ishipress.com> Is this a website or a virus?
Feb-11-06  hintza: A website, but I must say that it has made my computer crash more than once and I thus avoid it.
Feb-12-06  Yelena Dembo: Hi kvcs! Contents are very interesting but they dont interest me at all! I have my own life:) And contents are really far away from chess itself! It is about people opinion on how the girl looks like on the photo. She often looks absolutely different in life! Just the photo was done very well!:)
Feb-12-06  Yelena Dembo: I do play correspondence chess <kvcs>! I have an account on Letsplaychess.com which I find as a very good site!
Feb-12-06  Yelena Dembo: Hello <kvcs>! Unfortunately I dont play correspondence that much and only play on letsplaychess.com but on that site we of course can play with Marie! I wish her all the best!
Feb-12-06  alefromitaly: Marry meeee!! Oh, sorry, you're already married, oh nevermind, I'm so sorry (lucky him...)
Feb-12-06  Cogano: LOL <alefromitaly>! You sure are a comic! Take very good care & have a great day. Cheers mate!
Feb-13-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sneaky: Hi Yelena. I was on ICC and I saw you on ICC whooping Shirazi at 3 minute chess. Well done!!
Feb-13-06  THE pawn: <Yelena Dembo>

Hi miss Dembo! I personally am a big fan of chess engines and all related programation. I have personally programmed my own system that I try to improve it by implanting in the WZA lines extremely precise endgame knowledge ( basic strategies to whole games and what's important and what's not) and so he plays openings and middlegame in sight of a better endgame and the result is really impressive (but far from perfect) So obviously I am a big fan of computer chess and I try to gather as much opinions as I can from eminent chess players such as you. (That'll also help for a project at high school) I wanted to know your opinion of computers in general, if you believe it will influence dramatically the future of chess, the DEEP BLUE match against kasparov and now the extremely strong Hydra. Thx!

Feb-14-06  Yelena Dembo: Hi <THE pawn>! Computers are naturally very important and useful but chessplayers who use them for analysis must know exactly in which positions to use them, how much time to give them to think ,etc I dont play against computers as it is not necessary for me (I play a lot of OTB official tournaments) but I use them often in analysis.
Feb-14-06  Yelena Dembo: Thanks <Sneaky>!! I play sometimes on ICC and Playchess under Dembo and YelenaDembo accounts:) You can see all my recent games on ICC by typing hist Dembo:)
Feb-19-06  SickedChess: Nice win Yelena!

[Event "22nd Open"]
[Site "Cappelle la Grande FRA"]
[Date "2006.02.18"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dembo,Y"]
[Black "Cieza,A"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2257"]
[EventDate "2006.02.18"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. f4 Qa5 5. Bd3 e5 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be3 exd4 8. Bxd4 Qb4 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. O-O Qxb2 11. Qe1 Qb6+ 12. Kh1 Bxf3 13. Rxf3 Nd7 14. Bc4 Qc7 15. a4 Nb6 16. Bb3 a5 17. Qh4 h5 18. e5 d5 19. Qxf6 Rh6 20. Qg5 Qe7 21. Qxe7+ Bxe7 22. Ne2 h4 23. Nd4 Rh5 24. c3 O-O-O 25. Rh3 Rg8 26. g4 Rhh8 27. g5 Nc4 28. Nf5 Bc5 29. Bxc4 dxc4 30. Rxh4 Rxh4 31. Nxh4 Rd8 32. f5 Rd3 33. g6 fxg6 34. fxg6 Bf8 35. Nf5 Rxc3 36. e6 Kd8 37. e7+ Ke8 1-0

Feb-20-06  Georgie Dubb: 2nd round of Cappelle la Grande 22nd Open
http://www.cappelle-chess.com/home....

GMI ERENBURG Sergey (2573)- MI DEMBO Yelena (2461) 0-1

Thumbs up.

Feb-20-06  Georgie Dubb: Do you know the movie “La diagonale du fou” (aka “dangerous moves”) (1984), directed by Richard Dembo ?

http://frenchfilms.topcities.com/in...

Feb-24-06  SickedChess: Yelena Dembo have 5 points (+5 -2) and now she is playing live! http://www.cappelle-chess.com/~live...
Feb-24-06  notyetagm: <SickedChess: Yelena Dembo have 5 points (+5 -2)>

Binary Dembo!

Feb-24-06  ChessVip: now Yelena have 6 of 8 games in Cappelle (France)!
she defeat GM Malakhatko with black!
Feb-24-06  ChessVip: Yelena Interview:
http://www.chessmaniac.com/2006/01/...
Feb-24-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sneaky: <Daniel Wayne Snyder: "What was your hardest game?"

Yelena Dembo: "The most complicated game in my life was against an FM from USA - N.Castaneda. In the game and its variations I sacrificed a Q, two R, a N and 6 pawns! There were a lot of people watching and I think I lost many kilos during the game!">

It truly is a cool game. CG used it as a puzzle of the day not long ago: N Castaneda vs Y Dembo, 2001

Feb-24-06  ChessVip: WOMEN’S WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2005-2006

PAIRINGS OF ROUND 1

17 17-48 Dembo, Yelena (GRE) - Lujan, Carolina (ARG)

She meet the second argentinian woman
that got the WGM title. (I hope my beloved Belen Sarquis gonna be the third) ;)

Feb-25-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Ron: Hello Yelena: I would like to get some insight on how professional players prepare for a tournament. For example, do they go to the internet in order to find analysis on a game they played, and to research the games of their future opponents? Do they bring a laptop, and play practice games in their hotel room? Is a little physical exercise before a game a good idea? etc
Feb-26-06  mandar: <yelenaDembo>What shld i call u?Yelena,madam,miss. Do u have freetime nowadays in month of april or may?Tell us some things abt ur schedule,how u practice,how u play,how u manage,(how u study acaemics...if u r a student)how u are training urself to compete agins ur rivals,is there any diet that a player must include. The reason why i asked u for ur free time in those monts becoz <chess classics> is organising a tournament(correspondence type)It would be really very nice if u participate in it.And another thing i wish to play u in a correspondence match,will u accept my challenge?I am a novice who is fairly good with tactics and wants to improve his chess.I donot have elo rating. -Thank u.
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