Adrian Mikhalchishin
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Lviv
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) is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
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chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
grandmaster now playing for Slovenia
Slovenia
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He became a Grandmaster in 1978, shared first place at the Nikolaev tournament in 1983, and was second at Hastings
Hastings International Chess Congress
The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess congress which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year. The main event is the Hastings Premier tournament, which was traditionally a 10 to 16 player round-robin tournament. In 2004/05 the tournament was played in the...
in 1985-86.
Coach
Mikhalchishin is Vice-chairman of the FIDE Trainer Committee. From 1980 to 1986 Mikhalchishin was the trainer of Anatoly KarpovAnatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...
, and has also trained Zsuzsa Polgar, Maya Chiburdanidze, Alexander Beliavsky
Alexander Beliavsky
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, Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch is a German chess Grandmaster who was the clear winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek Van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko...
, and Vassily Ivanchuk. In 2004 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. He is currently coaching the Women's Team in Turkey
Turkey
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Chessbase Discs
- The Secret Weapons of the Champions
- Decision Making in Chess
- Power of Planning
- Arkhangelsk
- Power of Exchange
- Winning Structures
- Strategy University Vol 1: The Central Approach
- Strategy University Vol 2: Prevention and Preparation in Chess
- Strategy University Vol 3: Positional Pawn Sacrifice
- The King in the Center