Yelena Dembo

Yelena Dembo
Yelena Dembo at Iraklion 2007
Full name	Yelena Dembo
Country	Greece
Born	(1983-12-08) December 8, 1983 (age 33) Penza, Russia (then, the USSR)
Title	International Master Woman Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2448 (February 2017) (No. 36 ranked woman in the November 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2482 (September 2009)

Yelena Dembo (born December 8, 1983) is a Greek International Master of chess. On the May 2010 FIDE rating list for women, she is ranked 31st in the world, with a rating of 2470. She became a Woman Grandmaster when she was seventeen years old, and an International Master at age nineteen. She is also a chess teacher and author.

Dembo was born on December 8, 1983, in Penza, Russia. She first began to read when she was two-and-a-half years old and at the age of three years and nine months, played for the first time in a chess tournament among boys under twelve, enabling her to become a rated chess-player.

Dembo's mother Nadezhda Fokina is a USSR Master of Sports in chess, a linguist, chess journalist and trainer. In the past she won gold and silver medals in the USSR Chess Championships and was Russian Champion at 'Under 20' level in 1967. She also played for Israel at the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines. Dembo's father is a professional pianist, who graduated from Leningrad Academy of Music, but is also a chess trainer, journalist and psychologist. He has been her trainer ever since she was three years old.

At seven years of age, her family emigrated to Israel and the young Dembo was Israeli girls' champion five times, including once in the 'Under 20' category.

Much of her time is spent working as a chess coach. Her parents created a chess academy attended by more than one hundred students from thirty plus countries including Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Hungary, UK, US, Canada, Israel, China, India, Malaysia, Brunei, Syria, Kuwait and Ireland. The level of their students ranges from those who are unrated to those Elo rated 2500.

While living in Hungary between 2001 and 2003, she won the Hungarian Women's Championship. At the end of 2003 she moved to Athens, Greece where on May 12, 2004 she married Sotiris Logothetis, a business consultant and chess organizer.