Books
Her first chess book, The Very Unusual Book About Chess, is about the middlegame and contains several interesting methods of playing this part of the game, complemented by many instructive examples by the world’s leading players (Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov, Emil Sutovsky etc.) on each method.
The chapter breakdown is as follows:
- Gifted Moves (Gifted Ideas)
- Special Chapters (”Easy But Nice”)
- “Kasparov’s Rook”
- g5-g6 followed by h5-h6 in positions with opposite-side castling
- Kings Can Do Even The Impossible
- f4-f5 in the Sicilian Defence
Dembo's second book is titled Conversation with a Professional Trainer - Methods of Positional Play. Her third book was Play the Grünfeld,published by Everyman Chess, ISBN 978-1-85744-521-3. Her fourth book (in 2008) was Fighting the Anti-King's Indians: How to Handle White's Tricky Ways of Avoiding the Main Lines, published by Everyman Chess, ISBN 978-1-85744-575-6
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