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Yuri Drozdovskij is a Ukranian Chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2614. He is renown for his rapid chess skills, having won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tying for first at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Cup 2008 where he finished ahead of the chess super heavyweights Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruslan Ponomariov, and Boris Gelfand. Drozdovskij also had an exceptional performance in 2007, tying for 1st place at the very strong Cappelle-la-Grande [...]

Boris Avrukh is one of the best active chess grandmasters in Israel, boasting an impressive FIDE rating of 2625. While Avrukh is a native of Kazakhstan, he immigrated at a young age to Israel to find stronger chess opposition. Avrukh began training with renown chess grandmaster Alex Huzman, and the rest is history. Avrukh’s rapid ascent towards the Grandmaster title included winning the Worlder Under-12 Chess Championship in 1990. Boris Avrukh has played for Israel [...]

Csaba Balogh is only 24 years old, but he can already be considered a veteran chess grandmaster.  Csaba Balogh earned the IM title when hewas 14 and was awarded the title of International Grandmaster at 16 years of age.  Among Balogh’s numerous impressive wins, he won the U-16 European Individual Championship in 2003 and in 2006 he finished in 2nd place in the Hungarian Chess Championship.  More recently, in 2011 he tied for 2nd-5th at [...]

Bartosz Socko is a leading Polish Grandmaster with a FIDE rating over 2650.  His notable achievements on the chess board include winning the Polish U-16 and U-18 Championships in 1994 and 1995, as well as winning the Polish Championship in 2008.  Bartosz Socko has beat a number of the world’s best chess players, most impressively winning against Alexei Shirov in 2007 and Magnus Carlsen in 2008.  Bartosz Socko’s wife Monika is also a strong Grandmaster. [...]

It is with the utmost delight that I introduce International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley as the newest addition to the OnlineChessLessons.NET team. Ron’s distinguished experience on and off the board makes him a truly invaluable asset to our mission to promote chess to all corners of the globe. GM Ron W. Henley Joins the OnlineChessLessons.NET Team! Ron W. Henley has been a leading International Grandmaster for the past 30 years, with a very diversified background [...]

Mark Bluvshtein began his journey to Canadian chess record-breaking by moving from Russia to Israel at the age of 5, and finally immigrating to Canada at the age of 11. Bluvshtein didn’t waste much time, in the same year becoming the youngest Canadian chess player to achieve the National Master title at age 11. Bluvshtein continued dominating the chess scene, becoming the youngest Canadian to achieve the International Master title at age 13. In 2004, [...]

I got to catch up with young Ukranian GM Martyn Krvtsiv who became a GM at only 19 years old. His FIDE is now over 2600 and rising. The game I will show is one of his favorite games that he played at the Mindsports tournament in 2008. He won the tournament beating many much higher rated Grandmasters in convincing fashion and many call it his most astounding victory in the chess world. The tournament [...]