Jelena Dembo

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Jelena Dembo, Porto Carras 2011
Association IsraelIsrael Israel (until 2000) Hungary (2000 to 2004) Greece (since 2004)
HungaryHungary 
GreeceGreece 
Born December 8, 1983
Penza , Soviet Union
title International Master of Women (2000)
Grand Master of Women (2001)
International Master (2003)
Current  Elo rating 2448 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2482 (September 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Yelena Dembo ( Russian Елена Владимировна Дембо * 8. December 1983 in Penza ) is a Russian chess player , who played in the Soviet and -trainerin, as well as the Israeli and Hungarian Chess Federation. She currently 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, the concert pianist Vladimir Dembo, is a chess trainer. She learned to read at the age of 2½ and the rules of chess at the age of three. When she was seven, her parents moved to Tel Aviv , Israel, when she was 14, to Budapest , Hungary. In 2003 she moved to Athens , Greece, where she married the FIDE Master Sotirios Logothetis (* 1974) on May 12, 2004 . She works as a chess trainer.

chess

Jelena Dembo, May 1999
Jelena Dembo, 2007

At the age of 3 years and 9 months she played her first chess tournament. At the age of 4 years and 1 month she qualified for the 4th Soviet category in chess. As a 15-year-old she took part in the IM tournament of the First Saturday tournaments in Budapest in May 1999.

In 2002 she became European U20 rapid chess champion in Novi Sad and Hungarian women champion in Budapest in June 2003. In September 2003 she was tied first at the Acropolis Open in Athens, in December 2004 she won the 2nd Jelisaweta Bykowa Memorial in Vladimir . At the European Women's Championship in Chișinău in June 2005, she received the bronze medal. She won the Mediterranean Women's Championship in Cannes in February 2007 .

With the Hungarian girls' national team U18 (2nd team) she reached fifth place at the 2000 European Championships in Balatonlelle as well as an individual bronze medal for her result of 5 out of 7 on the first board. At the U18 European Championship 2001, again at Lake Balaton , she played again on the top board, this time for the first team of Hungary; Hungary received a silver medal here and Dembo an individual silver medal for her result of 4 out of 5.

She made her first WIM standard in Budapest. At the age of 15, Jelena Dembo achieved her second WIM standard in Budapest in 1999. In 2001, at the age of 17, she received the title of Grand Master of Women . At 19 (2003) she became International Master (IM), she fulfilled the required standards at two tournaments of the Budapest series First Saturday in February 2000 and July 2003 and in October 2000 at an IM tournament in Neukloster . She achieved standards for the title of Grand Master (GM) in June 2005 at the European Women's Championships in Moldova and at the Klaus Junge Open in Hamburg .

Dembo would lead the Greek women's ranking by a large margin, but it is listed as inactive because she has not played a rated game since the 2012 women's chess world championship in November 2012 (as of January 2015). Her highest position to date on the FIDE women's world rankings was 15th in July 2006.

Team chess

National team

Dembo took part in all six women's chess Olympiads from 2002 to 2012 (2002 for Hungary, since then for Greece). She also competed in 2011 at the World Team Championship of women as well as 2001 bis 2011 at all six team European Championships of women in part (in 2001 and 2003 with Hungary, since 2005 with Greece). She reached second place in the Hungarian women's selection in Plovdiv in 2003 .

societies

She played club team championships in Israel, Croatia, Hungary (for ASE Paks ), Germany (in the 2nd League West and Women's Bundesliga for Tower Emsdetten ), the British 4NCL (for Wood Green 1 and 2 ), which she won in 2005 and 2006 , the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (for RAD Belgrade and BAS Belgrade ), Greece, Turkey (for Besiktas Jimnasik SK ) and Romania (for CS Cotnari-Politehnica Iaşi ). In Austria she is registered for the SK Vösendorf . At the European Club Cup Women Dembo took part three times, reaching in 2009 and 2011 the second best individual score on the second board.

Publications

  • The Very Unusual Book about Chess . Self-published, Athens 2005, ISBN 960-630-606-2 .
  • Conversation with a Professional Trainer - Methods of Positional Play . Self-published, 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 .

Web links

Commons : Jelena Dembo  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First Saturday tournaments May 1999 in Budapest on TeleSchess (report, pictures and all 91 games)
  2. ↑ Jelena Dembos results at girls' European team championships U18 on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002, Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 86
  4. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  5. ↑ Jelena Dembo's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Jelena Dembos results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Jelena Dembos results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Jelena Dembo's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Dembo, Jelena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dembo, Yelena (English); Дембо, Елена Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Penza