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GM Mikhail Golubev

I prefer to work with those who wish to play at a serious international level. Worked with Ponomariov, Karpov, many children's Wchs. Write me at: gmi@europe.com

LocationOdessa Ukraine
LanguagesEnglish (US), русский язык, українська
RatingFIDE: 24612575
Hourly rateMy hourly rate is 40 USD. Contact me if you have any questions: gmi@europe.com
AvailabilityAccepting students
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About me

Mikhail Golubev. Chess grandmaster, journalist, author, trainer, organiser from Odessa, Ukraine. Website: mikhailgolubev.wordpress.com

Playing experience

IGM since 1996. Ukrainian Champion 1996. Winner of the Swiss Open Championship in 1999.
Best ELO: 2570 (in 1995).

Teaching experience

I have been giving online chess lessons since December 2019. I prefer to work with those who wish to play at a serious international level. Normally I don't work with beginners. I have worked as a coach or assistant, in particular, with the world champions Ruslan Ponomariov and Anatoly Karpov, and with many European and World youth/junior champions (U-10 ... U-20).

Other experiences

Chess journalist, author of four chess books, chess organiser. My chess books at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Mikhail-Golubev/e/B0034PRE2K

Best skills

As, formerly, a professional player for many years, I know what serious, professional chess is about.

Teaching methodology

Chess improvement is about making your weakest areas stronger. My usual training method is, most normally, looking at the student's games first, and then it becomes clear which aspects of his/her play deserve to be improved ASAP. When the main problem is solved, then another problem takes its place, and so on. Being people, players are all very different, so my approach is individual. It's partly based on my experience as a student in the "Botvinnik School" in the USSR of the 1980s.
The most usual/main directions of work with students are concrete opening preparation and analysis of student's games. (To a lesser extent it can be such things as general middlegame strategies, not directly connected to the student's repertoire openings, and general endgame preparation).
Not all students are willing to work on their own and I respect any attitude - though, indeed, the desire to work individually, between lessons, is very helpful to the coach and even more for the student him/herself. I can also play against students. In any case, you have to play chess regularly, otherwise no one will be able to help you to improve as a chess-player!

Languages: English, Russian or Ukrainian. For online coaching, I mostly use Skype with a Chess.com (or Lichess) analysis board. Contact me for my rates and if you have any questions: gmi@europe.com

Public studies

GM Golubev's selected games 1983-2010

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  1. Krichevsky, M. - Golubev, Mikhail
  2. Lapshun, Yury - Golubev, Mikhail
  3. Onischuk, Alexander - Golubev, Mikhail
  4. Golubev, Mikhail - Kozul, Zdenko
  1. GM Mikhail_Golubev

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