IM Ihor Nester

I am IM Nester Ihor, I am from Ukraine, and chess is my profession. I was an active offline over-the-board chess player before 2020, presently chess coach is my main occupation. I am open for lessons in 2023

In recent years (except 2020-23) I was an active chess professional and played around 150 classic games a year. Typically I win around 7-8 tournaments a year, and as a rule, I am among the winners in the rest of them. My recent best achievement was winning the Romanian Open Championship in 2018 in Alba Julia. I usually participate in swiss classic tournaments around Europe, most often in Germany, Romania, Poland, sometimes Italy, France, Switzerland, and other countries. I like strategy, I prefer to think, plan on the basis of understanding positions. That's why my main activity is classic tournaments.

I have a certificate in the specialty "Chess coach" at Lviv University of Sports.
I worked for 5 years as a chess coach at Vasyl Ivanchuk chess school.
Total working experience as a chess coach at chess schools is 7 years.
Besides, I also have private online students.

I speak well enough a couple of languages.
Ukrainian and Russian are native level, English and Polish advanced

What is my chess specialty? What I can teach you best?
Openings:
for white closed openings
- Catalan, English, and other openings (Kings Indian, Queens-Indian, etc), where white can successfully
play Bg2 fianchetto.
- We can also look at alternatives to fianchetto in some openings like Dutch, Maroczy, some English variations, etc.

For black
- if 1.e4, then 1...e5 and either closed Rui Lopez, or the majority of other possible positions - Italian, 2
knights, Vienna, Scotch, and others.
- If the 1-st move not e4, then several concepts possible: Dutch and different Dutch-like variations, Hedgehog, queen's gambit accepted

Besides openings we can also work on:
- endgames, endgame plans, and techniques
- middlegame strategy, typical positions

Besides, we can analyze your games, point out mistakes, weak sides, and make up a strategy for your development.

We can work in any screen demonstration app. Skype, zoom are examples of such apps. Also, interactive studies on lichess is a good instrument for training.