AndreyOstrovskiy

Are you eager to improve your chess? Follow my streams on https://twitch.tv/mostrovski! I am an International Master from Ukraine, currently living in Germany. I have 16  years of the real tournament chess experience and have been an online chess coach for five years providing chess lessons for players of different levels and ages.

Contact

Email - [email protected]

Twitter - _ostrovskii

YouTube - Andrey Ostrovskiy

Skype - brainpuzzled

Languages

English, Русский, Українська.

Equipment

I use Skype, Google Hangouts and Chess.com online classrooms for online training.

My approach

The real value is understanding. To become a strong player or the one, who can truly comprehend the incredible beauty of chess, you have to understand what the hell is going on with all these pieces on the chessboard! Therefore, my goals are to inculcate in you the passion for understanding chess and to help you understand. Step by step. Move by the move.

My chess preferences

I believe that beauty is based on harmony. Chess is not an exception. The problem, which I care about the most, is how to reach the most efficient coordination of the pieces in every position. When it is solved, I feel incredibly pleased. 

No less enjoyable is to watch, how the harmony appears and disappears in games of others. My favorite players are Rubinstein, Capablanca, Tal, Smyslov, Anand, Shirov and Adams. I think they are the incarnation of harmony in chess!

My experience

I was born in 1989. When I turned five, my father, who used to be an experienced player, taught me the basics of chess. The "real chess" began, when I turned 8 - I started working with Pavel Savitskiy, who not only did become my chess coach but also became my guru with a vengeance. Thanks to him, I achieved a lot in chess and what is more importantly - in real life.

In the age of 9, for the first time in my life, I took part in the Ukrainian Championship - among men, not youth. At that tournament, I even managed to defeat the National Master. It was my first master's "scalp."

In the age of 13, I won the second prize in the Ukrainian Youth Championship (under 14) and represented my country in the European Youth Championship in Budva, where I managed to enter the "best 10" in rapid and blitz. That was my last youth competition - after that, I began to play only in the "adult" national and international tournaments.

In 2005, I became the FIDE Master.

In 2006, I won the Donetsk Championship and became the National Master.

In 2007, I did everything needed - norms and rating - to earn the title of the International Master.  

In 2015, I won 12th Vasylyshyn Memorial and got my first norm of the International Grandmaster.

You can see my FIDE profile here.

My strengths:

• 16 years of real chess experience;
• 9 years of playing at a high level;
• Training with well-known experts - GMs Igor Zaitsev, Andrey Zontakh, and Gennadi Kuzmin;
• Taking part in several training Camps of Mark Dvoretsky's Chess School.
• 5 years of coaching experience.

I have tutored different students - from a nine years old boy to an executive vice president of the wholesale energy company. What that extreme cases have in common is that nobody stayed on the same level, everyone progressed. Get in touch with me:

Email - [email protected]

Twitter - _ostrovskii

YouTube - Andrey Ostrovskiy

Skype - brainpuzzled

PS. Here is one of my games, in which I won Yuri Balashov- well known Soviet GM, who was the second of World Champions Spassky and Karpov. I was 16 years old at the moment: