GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko

Hi! I am Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko. I am a professional chess player as well as an experienced coach. I am an International Grandmaster, and I also hold a Ph.D. in mathematics.

You can book a lesson here: calendly.com/oleksiyenko-mykhaylo
I strongly prefer working with adult learners or players with 1600+ ELO.

I am currently coaching at Killer Chess Training killerchesstraining.com/

Check out my six courses for chessable:
www.chessable.com/author/Oleksiyenko/

I also created six courses about chess for Udemy. They are about tactics, openings, middlegame, endgame, and general principles. The courses would be useful only for players below ELO 1900.

Please use these direct links. Otherwise, Udemy collects about 2/3 of your payment.
I suggest you study the courses in the chronological order (tactics-openings-middlegame-principles-one pawn-two pawns)

www.udemy.com/course/understanding-chess-tactics/?referralCode=8FD8AAAAAF9238B3B609
www.udemy.com/course/understanding-chess-openings-how-to-play-any-opening-well/?referralCode=873F348E58BA2A99CC4C
www.udemy.com/course/understanding-chess-middlegame/?referralCode=5F72C94DA1D83D52E13F
www.udemy.com/course/understanding-chess-principles-37-vital-chess-principles/
www.udemy.com/course/understanding-chess-endgames-one-pawn-only/?referralCode=194185949B9D6F64DC07
www.udemy.com/course/understanding-chess-endgames-two-pawns-part-1/?referralCode=0710DBA766419FC16630

You can check my books here:
qualitychess.co.uk/?s=Oleksiyenko&post_type=product

Here are my courses for Modern-chess:
www.modern-chess.com/authors/mykhaylo-oleksiyenko

Champion of Ukraine in 2016 (http://chess-results.com/tnr252381.aspx?lan=1&art=4) and rapid champion of Ukraine in 2014 (http://chess-results.com/tnr139115.aspx?lan=1&art=1). There were many tournaments where I shared or took first place but I am not going to bore you with those.
I also hold a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Best players I was privileged to beat in classical chess: Gashimov, Ivanchuk, Harikrishna, Wojtaszek, Firouzja, Laznicka

I am teaching since 2011. I have experience coaching national teams of Ukraine (men), Egypt (men and women), and the Netherlands (women). The best chess players that I have been coaching are Amin Bassem (ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=10601457), Ahmed Adly (ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=10601619), Alexander Ipatov (ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=14116731) and others.
I also have experience teaching children as well as players without any rating.

I also have some experience as a commentator. World Team Chess Championship (Ankara, 2013) and FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship Match (Lviv, 2016)

I believe I am quite a universal chess player and teacher

Every student needs a special approach.
This is why during the first 2-3 sessions I give personalized advice on how to study chess better given the time constraints we all have.
I ask a lot of questions about the current way of chess study and then advise on how to improve it.

Every student is special. And yet, some things are common to all players, in my opinion.
For example, everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY) needs to work on their calculation. It is a muscle that needs constant training!

Active play is a very important skill that I can teach. To my mind, most games could be decided in the middlegame, so I believe it is the most important part of the game. Improving calculation, active play, and positional and strategic understanding are the keys to playing middlegame. Openings and endgames are also extremely important, but I believe that you can get away with some basic rules of playing those and some "must-know" endgame knowledge.