Yelena Dembo

Yelena Dembo (Russian: Елена Владимировна Дембо, born December 8, 1983 in Penza) is a Russian chess player and trainer, who played in the Soviet, as well as for the Israeli and Hungarian Chess Federation. Currently she plays in the Greek national team.

Life

Her parents are both chess players. Her mother, Natalia Fokina played for the Israeli national team and her father, a concert pianist Vladimir Dembo, is a chess trainer. She learned already with 2 1/2 years and read at the age of three years, the rules of chess. When she was seven years old, her parents moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, when she was 14 years old Budapest, Hungary. In 2003, she moved to Athens, Greece, where she married on 12 May 2004 the FIDE Master Sotirios Logothetis (* 1974). She works as a chess trainer.

Chess

At the age of 3 years and 9 months, they played their first chess tournament. At the age of 4 years and 1 month, she fulfilled the conditions for the IV Soviet category in chess. In 2002 she was European in Novi Sad U20 chess champion, Hungarian mistress she was in Budapest in June 2003. In September 2003, she was at the Acropolis in Athens Open shared first in December 2004, she won the second Elizaveta Bykova Memorial in Vladimir. The European Women's Championship in Chisinau in June 2005 she was awarded the bronze medal. She won the Mediterranean Women's Championship in February 2007 in Cannes.

With the Hungarian National Team U18 Girls ( 2nd team ) she reached the fifth place and an individual bronze medal for her score of 5 out of 7 on the first board at the European Championships 2000 in Balatonlelle. In the U18 European Championship in 2001, again at Lake Balaton, they played again on top board, this time for the first team of Hungary; Hungary received a silver medal here and Dembo an individual silver medal for their results of 4 out of 5 With the Hungarian national team kept them at the European Women's Championship 2003 in Plovdiv, a silver medal.

Club Team Championships played in Israel, Croatia, Hungary, Germany (woman Bundesliga and 2nd League West Men for tower Emsdetten), the British 4NCL ( for Wood Green 1 and 2), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( RAD Belgrade ), Greece, Turkey ( for Besiktas Jimnasik SK ) and Romania ( for CS Politehnica Iasi - Cotnari ). In Austria it is reported for the SK Voesendorf.

Your first WIM norm she made in Budapest. As a 15 -year-old scored Jelena Dembo in Budapest in 1999 her second WIM norm. At 17, she received the 2001 title Grand Master of the women. At 19 ( 2003), she was an International Master (IM). Grandmaster norms (GM ) it reached in June 2005 at the European Women's Championship in Moldova and the Klaus Junge- Open in Hamburg. Your current Elo rating is 2468 (as of November 2009), so that they, the Greek wife ranking with a huge margin. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2482 in September 2009, the highest position on the FIDE Women's World Ranking was previously the 15th place in July 2006.

Publications

• The Very Unusual Book about Chess. Self Publishing, Athens 2005, ISBN 960-630-606-2.
• Conversation with a Professional Trainer - Methods of Positional Play. Self Publishing, Athens, 2006.
• Play the Grünfeld. Everyman Chess, London 2007, ISBN 1-85744-521- X.
• Fighting the Anti- King's Indians. Everyman Chess, London 2008, ISBN 1-85744-575-9.