IM Manvel Avetisian

Hello. Im an International Master ( 2404) , FIDE SENIOR TRAINER ( FST),Head coach of Iraq mens and womens teams.. im From Armenia, Yerevan, im 45 years old.I Have Worked as a coach in Iran for 17 years and was the head coach of the Iranian Girls national team ( U 16-18-20_.At the same time,i taught chess at the Tehran Institute of Physical Culture.Since 2023,i Have been Working in Iraq as the head coach of the Iraqi womens and mens national teams...

i Have participated in Numerous youth Tornaments ( National Youth CC , World Youth Champ.) as well as numerous open Tournaments...

I am one of the founders of the Iranian chess school, and have trained 4 Grandmasters so far 1) GM Tabatabaee Mohammadamin - peak Rating=2718 2) GM Bardiya Daneshvar ,Rating = 2640, Current Asian mens champion 3) GM lorparizangeneh Shahin - 5 time Asian Youth Champion 4) GM Gholami Arian - World and Asian youth champion and Prize Winner...Also i trained 7 IM,s ( 1) Nima Javanbakht 2) Mersad Khodashenas 3) Abtin Atakhan 4) Arman Hakemi 5) Artin Ashraf ( 4 IM norms and 2470) ,6) Asian Youth and Iranian Women champion WIM Anahita Zahedifar 7) Asian ,World Medalist and Iranian Champion WIM Anousha Mahdian , + More than 15 FM + More than 15CM ...in 2024 , 9 of my students received titles ( from IM to CM) and since the beginning of 2025 ,4 titles ( 2 WIM + 3 FM + 1 CM ) ...............................My students have earned 60+ medals from Asian, ASEAN, Western Asia youth chess championships and 10+ medals from world youth championships.,,,,As a head coach of the Iraqi national teams, the Iraqi mens team won a bronze medal at the 2023 Arab sports Games in Algeria ( for the first time in the history of these games) and at the 2024 World chess Olympiad ( Budapest - Hungary) ,the Iraqi mens team showed its best results in the last 30 years...in 2025 IM Ali Hussein won a silver medal in the Asian Seniors 50+group, FM Dr. Ali Layth won a bronze medal in Arab Mens championship.

in 2023 , we held a FIDE Trainers seminar in Erbil,Iraq ( together with GM, FST Pourramezanali ) ..........also i have released over 100 CDs ( in Persian) and i Also conduct group lessons for Iranian and Iraqi chess players...

During this 20 Years of coaching i have collected a Very Powerful chess Files ( Mainly Calculation and 2400+ tactics) and many masters and GM-s, as well as strong young chess players, take an Exam with the Puzzles from these Files before Important Competitions

when working with Young chess players, i mainly use the following approach: 1) Calculation +improving Tactical vision 2) Positional chess 3) Strategy ( Pawn structures) 4) Endgame + Endgame Technique ( Realization of Advantage) 5) Openings2