GM Valeriy Aveskulov

Ukrainian GM, chess coach, and author. Currently, my family lives in Hungary.
Working with ModernChess, ChessAble and ForwardChess.

I had played chess for 19 years (from 1994 to 2013). The Ukrainian champion of 2007 and prize winner of many international tournaments in the USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. I stopped active play in 2009, but in 2022, my career was restored with a series of RR GM tournaments in Budapest.

Have been working online since 2009. http://chesstao.com/students.php here you can read about my students' achievements.

Was a teacher at the National Law University from 2014 till 2021.
My literature experience includes:
1. Attack with Black (book about Black repertoire against 1.d4 based on the Benko gambit)

2. Improving the Endgame Technique.

Same-Colored Bishop Endgames: for ForwardChess app; ChessAble.
Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: for ForwardChess app; ChessAble .
Pawn Endgames: for ForwardChess app and ChessAble.

3. Articles for ModernChess:

Learn from Stein;
The Art of Exchanges;
Saving Lost positions;
Master the Pawn Play;
The King as a Strong Piece;
The Danger of Making Natural Moves - Learn to Fight Your Reflexes;
Opposite-Coloured Bishops in the Middlegame (2h Running Time).

Studying the endgames; strategic issues; psychology in chess; preparation for the opponents, etc.

Normally the first 2-3 lessons with a student are used to help me to understand the most important aspects about their chess persona (playing style, opening preferences, endgame knowledge and level of psychological strength, etc.). For this, there is no better way than to look at their own annotated games and hear their thoughts. When I have a good idea what my student wants to achieve and his/her experience and abilities I put together a plan of activities which I consider the most effective for him/her at their current stage of chess development and we begin to work on them. Individual lessons typically take the following structure:
firstly we review the student’s recent games and identify weaknesses or areas for improvement; and
secondly we take corrective action by reviewing relevant interesting thematic examples and exercises together with other material as applicable.