Sherlock's Method - Moradiabadi/Foisor

"The Working Tool for the Club Player"

The idea for this book came after discussing the importance of getting proper training before important competitions. They are both passionate about detective stories and wanted to make the training more pleasurable by inserting an iconic name from detective literature.

GM Elshan Moradiabadi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. He learned to play chess at age 7 by watching his dad play against a friend. His passion and will to get better grew fast and in 2001, at the age of 15, he won Iran’s Chess Championship with a 2712 rating performance. He became a GM in 2005 and represented Iran in five Chess Olympiads. Elshan has also essayed numerous articles and reports for different chess websites and publications. Elshan coached the US team in the World Team Championship in 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

WGM Sabina Foisor was born in 1989 in Romania to a chess family and learned to play chess at age 4. With two International Masters and her mother being one of the strongest female chess players in the country and world, Sabina soon followed in her footsteps. She won multiple National and European titles in her age category (from Girls under 8-20) in different styles of chess (Normal, Blitz, Rapid and Solving Problems). Her biggest achievement was winning the US Women’s Chess Championship in 2017 after unexpectedly losing her mother two months previously.
 
Sabina and Elshan started dating in 2014. Since mid-2017, they have resided in Durham, North Carolina where they teach and play chess professionally.