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FM Nikolay Maevskiy

Creative chess needs creative brain

LocationSaint-Petersburg Russia
Languagesрусский язык, English (US)
Rating26302536
Hourly rate55€/ 1 lesson (60 minutes)
AvailabilityAccepting students
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About me

My name is Nikolay. I am chess coach & psychologist from Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
I am 32 years old and I play chess since 8.

Today I combine teaching & playing so I know how correctly organize work on chess, tournament preparations & build effective strategical work on your mastership.

Playing experience

European championships: Montenegro 2009, Croatia 2010. France 2011. Poland 2013, Estonia 2016

Teaching experience

I teach chess since 2009.

In my work I create a long-term strategical plan of your skills improvement so you can continue work on it by yourself or with my support. That makes chess learning much more effective and create systematic improvements in all aspects of your game.

To get my lessons write me on E-mail: maevskynik@gmail.com.

Other experiences

Psychologist. Work in provocative method & neuropsychological approach.
My education helps me support chess skills with psychological knowledge of how brain works.
It makes my work much more effective and healthy.

I help my students get rid of such fears as : fear of loss/win, time-control problem, fear of winning positions, emotional disbalance.
In addition it helps you to be more relaxed in daily life.

Best skills

Strategical thinking, pawn structures transformations, wide opening knowledge, unusual opening repertoire.

Teaching methodology

On my lessons you can improve mental and emotional skills to be effective in chess games and daily life practice.
We work on your individual plan according to your goals.

First - I makes different tests of your skills.
Second - focus on main points to improve your chess understanding.
We work on openings, tactical & strategical thinking, desicion making, plan and endings.

Also I use methods of neuropsychology and provoactive psychology to create effective results and help you to make breakthrough in growing your rating up.

Work with players from beginners to professional level.

Skype/Zoom/ Chessbase.