Our Online Chess Coaches

World-renowned chess Grandmaster Boris Avrukh (peak rating 2668) has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning over three decades. Since winning World Championship under-12 in 1990 and earning the title of Grandmaster in 1998 at the age of 19, Boris won numerous high level tournaments and participated in seven Chess Olympiads. Recent years Boris focuses on chess coaching, including training some of the world’s elite players such as World Champion Vladimir Kramnik , World match pretendents Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand, USA champions Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So and many others.

Tibor Karolyi is an International Master, a winner of Hungarian championship 1984, world Junior championship 6-11 place, drawing Kasparov.

4 of Tibor’s students have won 7 medals in several world junior championship. Trained Peter Leko from age of 10 (1900 Elo) to age of 14 (2550) and was a member of his working team in 1998-2000. Many years training partner of Zsuzsa Polgar. Trained Sofia Polgar: Boys World under 20 silver medal.

Karolyi´s published books: Princess of Chess Judit Polgar 2004, in June 2006 Kasparov´s fighting chess covering years 1993-1998 comes out, and in September 2006 comes out the coverage of years 1999-2005.

International Grandmaster, highest ELO 2529. Bronze Medallist 1979 European Junior Championship 1979, Silver Medallist World U-26 Team Championships 1981, Winner Lugano Open 1986, British Champion 1990. Highly experienced trainer with many successful chess players, such as two times British Champion David Howell.

Vojislav Milanovic, International Master, FIDE Trainer, from Serbia, works as chess trainer 20 years in famous chess club “Partizan” which has won 23 times Yugoslavian championships. He wrote two chess books, Spanish Gambit with famous GM Milan Matulovic, and translated Nottingham 1936, by Alexander Alekhine. Vojislav is one of the most popular coaches on the internet today.His experience working with beginners, intermediate and advanced students is well known and appreciated in a chess community.

Catalin Navrotescu, International Master, one Grandmaster norm. Second and third of Romanian championship. Three times national junior champion.5th place at European chess championship with Romanian team.Experienced coach (22years of chess training).
Best student performances :
Two gold medals at European Youth chess championship individuals and teams, one gold medal at World Youth chess championship, several IM titles and a WGM title for his students.

Vlado is an International Master, winner of multiple international tournaments. Vlado is very experienced chess trainer with over 10 years of chess training at different levels. 

John specializes in coaching students from 0 – 1400 ratings. He has coached over 400 junior players in California. He has appeared in a number of newspaper articles in California because of his success with junior players.
John has also had success coaching children with special needs, including: Bipolar Disorder, ADD/ADHD, and developmental disabilities. John has also taught computer use, and computer software to adults. His communications and teaching background outside of chess make him an excellent coach for the new and limited-experience student.

Emir graduated English Language and Literature. While teaching business English in training centers and in schools, he was also a chess trainer helping kids improve their academic scores through chess. Emir specializes in teaching chess to beginners and lower levels.

Stephen is a graduate of Boston University. He has been playing chess for 20 years. He has passion for teaching chess and watching his students improve.

Martian Daniel is a National Master, winner of multiple tournaments, who achieved at his peak FIDE (International Chess Federation) rating above 2300.

Daniel is an experienced chess coach, very passionate and enthusiastic about teaching chess. Daniel applauses to students that love the game, are ambitious and have big desire to learn and improve, at any level. Working with competitive chess players, Daniel consistently brought improvements to their game typically adding 100+ Elo points per year.

Daniel also holds a Master’s Degree in Economics.