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IM Igor Khmelnitsky
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IM Igor Khmelnitsky
Igor is a winner of many national and
international tournaments in Europe and the United States.
At various points during his career, he has won individual
encounters with many of the game’s best players - including Lev
Alburt, Boris Alterman, Viorel Bologan, Roman Dzindzikhashvili,
Vasily Ivanchuk, Alexander Ivanov, Oleg Romanishin, Alexander
Shabalov, Evgeniy Sveshnikov, Patrick Wolff, and Alex Yermolinsky.
In total, Igor has beaten over 30 different Grandmasters. He
has been a participant in the Ukrainian National Championship as
well as a three times contestant in the US National Championship.
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Hello, thank you for visiting my home page. I am an
International Chess master with 20+ years of playing and coaching
experience. My site
was designed with the idea of promoting chess to mass players and fans.
You will find chess news, my games, books, software and other products that
my students use successfully, sample training exercises, various tests,
games played by my students and a lot more.
Igor is a very experienced coach. His
first high profile coaching experience was in 1986, when he served
as a coaching assistant of the Ukrainian national junior team.
Several members of that team went on to become successful
Grandmasters (V.Ivanchuk, B.Alterman, M.Brodsky, A.Maksimenko and
others…). Later Igor assisted various leading Ukrainian
players, including Y. Kruppa (now Grandmaster) and Women
Grandmaster L. Semenova, a challenger to the World Championship
title.
Since moving to the United States in 1991, Igor
has been coaching in the Philadelphia area. His students
include players of all levels, ranging from novices to masters.
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Igor has published his comments, annotated
games, and articles in various chess publications, among them, the
most prestigious periodicals –
Chess Informant, New in Chess, ChessBase, 64, Chess Life, and
Chess Today. He is also the founder and publisher of his
popular chess website:
www.IamCoach.com
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Igor is also a contributing author to the
best-seller
Masters of Success by Ivan Mizner, PhD (2004,
Entrepreneur Press)
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Igor is author of
Chess Exam and Training
Guide: Rate Yourself and Learn How to Improve (2004, IamCoach
Press) - winner of Book of the Year from CJA - Chess Journalists of
America (2005). |
Check out IM Igor Khmelnitsky's books:
See IM Khmelnitsky's articles and reviews posted right
here at Chessville:
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To check
or not to check?: IM Igor Khmelnitsky takes us through a
look at this important tactical question, and provides some surprising
answers along the way. "If you happened to witness group of Russians
playing blitz or analyzing position and if you are also proficient in
Russian to understand their witty comments, you may hear something like this
(translated in English) - "Grandmasters don't make checks!" or "Come on!
Stop bothering my King!" or "No one ever died from the check!" These
sayings emphasize how little is the respect stronger players have for
checks made without a good reason. To the contrary, beginners, especially
kids, love to make checks, and why not - after all - there is no checkmate
without the check!" Check out this latest installment of our popular and
instructive series,
Center
Squares!
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Review:
Encyclopedia of Opening Errors by Anatoly Matsukevitch, reviewed by
IM Igor Khmelnitsky. "I am not a big fan of Encyclopedias, not lately
anyway. Why carry around a huge book or collection of books if the
information is readily available on your computer? However, there is one
exception - Encyclopedia of Opening Errors by Matsukevitch..."
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Improving Your Calculation Technique!:
See the latest addition to our
Center
Squares as IM Igor
Khmelnitsky guide's us through the process of improving our calculating
ability, both by organizing it logically, and by increasing our
knowledge base. "You will:
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discover move
candidates much faster, -
eliminate the less
promising ones more easily, and -
assess the position at
the end of each variation more accurately."
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On Opening Preparation: IM
Igor Khmelnitsky shares some thoughts on opening preparation, and gives
brief reviews of Starting Out: Alekhine's Defence by John Cox, and
Beating the Petroff by Vassilios Kotronias & Andreas Tzermiadianos.
"In my opinion Opening Preparation is one of the most complex
aspects of the chess training. It is very time consuming, puts a lot of demand
on your memory and overall requires a serious commitment of financial and
physical resources. To reflect my thoughts on the process, I have devoted a
chapter in my new book
Chess Exam & Training Guide on the
subject of openings. I also a little while ago I had written a detailed memo for
my students (not-published anywhere else) on how to prepare openings..."
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Practical Rook Endgames: IM Igor Khmelnitsky's latest article
covers the most frequently encountered endgame of all. "Rook Endgame is the most common type of Endgame and one
of the more complex one. There are many nuances – activity of the rook,
king’s position, pawn structure that can easily distort what seems to be
a clear picture. Today, I’d
like to show an example from the very recent game that my student has
played at the HB Global Chess Challenge..."
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Basic
Knight Endgames - Simple or not? You decide! IM
Khmelnitsky looks at some very basic endgame knowledge all chessplayers
aspiring to improve need to understand, and the focus this time is on
knight endings. "...knowing basic positions and ideas in the
Endgame can prove to be crucial on any level, up to grandmaster.
How devastating can this be - you are playing well for 60+ moves and 4-5
hours, only to blow everything just moments before the game should reach
a well-deserved outcome? The knowledge of Basic endgames is one of
the 12 critical skills..."
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What do you do with your king, and why?: IM Igor Khmelnitsky's
latest article asks, What do you do with your king, and why? "In almost every
game we have to deal with the question – "What to do with the King?" The basic concept
is to castle as soon as you can. Why? Well, the purpose of castling is to get
the R in the game and to get the K in a safer position. And the bonus – you
move two pieces at once. Well, as you
advance your skills you certainly should be looking for a better reasoning and
for pointers that would help you to make a decision..."
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Taking
the Elevator Down... "Controlling of the open file with
the Rook is an extremely important strategic factor. It often
allows various tactical opportunities. The common ones are a
back-rank checkmate, double attack, penetration to the 7th
rank to win material, etc…Almost like an elevator going to the top
floor. Some of the lesser known ideas - involve using the open
file as trampoline for transferring the Rook to another file. This
idea was mentioned by Aaron Nimtsovich in his masterpiece “My System.”
Mark Dvoretsky contributed greatly to the development of this subject.
I’d compare this to the elevator going to the middle floor and
you have a skywalk (or something similar) to get to a different
tower..."
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Advancing
the Passed Pawn - Threat vs. Execution: Endgame instruction - "In
my opinion, promoting a pawn is one of the most exciting
thing in chess. Rarely, however, does the promotion go uncontested. It is more
common that an opponent can stop the promotion for a certain price – material
or time. The question is – what is the right price? Not only must
one gain
material, but also foresee how it will influence the subsequent flow of the
game.
Let's start with this relatively simple example
from the game of two boys; both are my students and rated approximately 800...
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One vs. Many =>
Examples a Plenty!: "Today I have a mix of positions from the games
that I played in the simul last fall. I was invited to give a short
presentation of my book Chess Exam and Training Guide and do a simul at the
North Penn Chess Club
back in the fall. I battled 22 (or so) players of various levels in a nice,
friendly atmosphere. At the end, I was lucky to give out just one draw and won
the rest of the games. From memory, I stored a few of the more interesting
examples from that simul..."
Copyright © 2005-2006 by Igor Khmelnitsky &
www.IamCoach.com and is used here by
permission.
It may not be reprinted or reposted in any format without
the express written permission of the author.
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