GM Vladimir Belous

I am originally from Russia. In 2013, I became a GM. I have 2 Bachelor’s degrees that I acquired in Russia and the USA. I moved to Brownsville TX, United States in 2016, where I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Currently am doing my Master’s in accounting at the same place.
FIDE: ratings.fide.com/profile/4174003
Facebook: www.facebook.com/vladimir.belous.90
E-mail: belousvovis@gmail.com

Russian Championship 1st place category: under 10. 2003
Russian Championship 1st place category: under 14. 2005
Russian Championship 1st place category: under 10. 2009 B-16 HL 2009 RUS Juniors Champ.
Russian Championship 1st place category: under 10. 2010 B-18 HL 2010 RUS Juniors Champ.
Moscow open 2011 1st place
World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad 1st place (team championship) 09/25/2009
Moscow Men Chmp. 2009 SF open 2009-03-21
Men's Moscow Chmp. 2010 SF 2010-03-06
2011 RUS Juniors Champ. B-20 3rd place 2011-03-04
Moscow team championat 2011 A (team) 2011-09-25
2nd A.Margaryan Memorial - RR 1st place 2012-01-09
B-20 Juniors Champ. 2012 2nd place
World’s Youth Stars Vanya Somov’s Memorial 2nd place
Bondarevsky Memorial 2013 1st place 2013-11-30
Moscow-Open 2014 F 3rd place
Moscow Championship men final 2014-03-22
13th World University Chess Championship (men) 1st place team 2014-08-18
Dvorkovich Memorial Chess Tournament Taganrog A 1st place
GM ZAW WIN LAY MEMORIAL Myanmar International Open 2014 1-2 place
1st International Open Municipality of N.Propontidas 2015 2nd place
X Dvorkovich Memorial Chess Tournament 1st place
Team Championship Moscow 2015 1stplace
8th Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 1st place
2nd UTRGV GM-norm Chess Tournament 1st place
2016 Lone Star Open 1st place
25th Annual Chicago Open 1st place
2016 Houston Chess Festival - Open 1st place
2016 Texas Collegiate Super Finals
2016 Houston Open tied for 1st place
8th Annual Golden State Open 2nd place
2017 Lone Star Open tied for 1 st place
2017 Gem City Open tied for 1st place
2017 ChessStars Orlando Sunshine Open tied for a 1st place
Wisconsin International Chess Festival tied for a 1st place
2017 US Masters Championship 1st place
53rd Annual American Open 1st place
Labor Day CCCSA GM Norm Invitational tied for a 1st place
2018 Texas Collegiate Super Finals 1st place (TEAM)
2018 Final Four of College Chess 1st place (TEAM)
2019 Final Four of College Chess 1st place (TEAM)
51st Annual Atlantic Open 1st place

I began coaching in 2011 when I got accepted as a sportsmen-instructor position in Moscow City Physical Culture and Sports Association, Karpov’s School Department. In 2016 I moved to the United States and got position in UTRGV as a chess instructor where I work currently.

I collected all best skills of Soviet chess school. My coaches GM Sergey Arkhipov, GM Valery Chekhov, GM Evgeny Bareev tough me how to prepare for the game, detect and use my opponents weaknesses. I got lucky to attend Mark Drovetsky’ session that’s how I improved my skills of converting and endgame technique. Currently I work with GM Bartek Macieja.

I have very good analytical skills which helps me almost all the time guess what opening will happen in my game or games of my students. Dynamic and aggressive style is the best describing of my chess style. Rook endgames is my “business card” witch I am proud the most.
I am passionately like to share all my knowledge and experience with my students.

At first, I reveal weaknesses of my students and then we work to fill these “blind spots”. I teach how to work with Chess Base software when I build opening repertoire for my students.