UK team champion (2022) as a member of the London-based Charlton Chess Club team. UK Premiere League player since 2023. Active FIDE rating - 2300 (2025). World's Top-100 Lichess Rapid Player in 2018, 2021, 2022, rated 2600+. Winner of nearly thirty OTB tournametns and over hundred open online chess competitions on Lichess and Chess.com. Best performance - 1st place at Lichess Arena Open Tournament (1756 participants) in 2022. I started teaching kids in 2008, and switched to teaching full-time professionally in 2016. I have my own teaching method that combines Soviet Chess School expertise with contemporary European humanistic psychology. Aknowledging a huge part sport psychology plays in kids' academic and sport performance, I pay particular attention to working on this with the students. My students are champions and prize winners of numerous tournaments for children in the USA, UK, New Zealand and Australia. I'll be happy to help you in your chess goals, whether you want to learn for yourself or to get some results in professional sport.