Typical students improved their repertoire of chess tactics, honed their chess strategy, encountered new chess tips, and solved many chess puzzles on the road to becoming stronger players. Why not join their ranks and start improving your chess today? There is nothing I enjoy more than helping students increase their mastery of chess.

Skype is often useful in conjunction with ICC or FICS for online game reviews and instructional sessions. Assignments, recommendations, and puzzles are usually emailed, often with attachments.

Dr. Jeffrey Plew (Australia): "I've been having chess lessons with GM Valeriy Aveskulov for about eight months. It's been a great experience. He is of course an accomplished player, but also a very switched-on, capable and positive teacher, adept at electronic media. Valeriy quickly understood where I am at as a chessplayer - strength, style, knowledge, repertoire, personal context - and was able to effectively engage my play and move it forward. For example, I'd been struggling with a response to 1.d4 (was a stodgy QGD or Dutch Stonewall) until the Nimzo-Indian was suggested and explained. I rapidly felt comfortable with this opening, was able to implement it successfully OTB, am happier playing it and see further horizons for advancement - thanks to Valeriy otherwise this wouldn't have happened.

Results: Started lessons in January, 2010. Jeffrey played in three Doerberl Cups and made progress every year. In the 2010 Doerberl Cup he scored only 50% in the "B" group. In the 2011 Doerberl Cup he shared 3rd-4th. In 2012 Jeffrey played in the main event where he beat his first master and got a lot of Elo points. At the 2012 World Open in Philadelphia he achieved a performance rating of about 2200, beating another FM in round 1 and drawing a WGM. Jeffrey Plew completed the 'double' at the 2013 Dubbo Open, winning both the New South Wales (NSW) Country Championship, and the Dubbo Open itself.

Francois Oberholzer (South African Republic) "I started taking lessons from Valeriy in May, 2010. At the time it seemed impossible that someone who was sitting in another part of the world could make such a huge improvement in my chess. I am grateful to Valeriy for putting in the time and effort to helping me improve my chess. I can recommend Valeriy confidently and without hesitation to anyone who is considering him as a coach."

Results: In less than a year my South African rating went from 1756 to 1954. Came 3rd in the national championship U-16 in 2010 and went on to win the U-18 Champion of SAR in 2011. Francois finished second in the African 2012 Youth Championships and got an FM title! He shared 1st-3rd places but still with 2nd place under-18.

Bhaskar Gupta (India): began serious study with me in September, 2011. He made quick progress in both mas­ter­ship and rating which increased from 1933 to 2195 in less than one year!

"Mr. Aveskulov has been an excellent coach! Until I took lessons from him, I was having trouble identifying the errors in my own games. Now he analyzes my games in depth and helps me find my mistakes so I can understand them and work on avoiding them in the future. He has also helped me significantly with my end­game, and advised me with my opening repertoire. I really enjoy our lessons and I recommend Mr. Aveskulov as a coach."

Epiphany Peters USA (middle) at 14 is the Women's 2012 Champion of Japan.

Praveen Narayanan (USA): "I recommend Valeriy as an excellent chess trainer for his logical and patient approach, and in his ability to break down positions into their essential elements in a way that is accessible to the student. His services are also relatively inexpensive and affordable. He has helped dissect my games, so as to pinpoint the critical moments and reveal the possibilities contained in them, always emphasizing a rational and logical course.

Roberto de Abreu (South African Republic) shared 1st-2nd under-16 in the African Championship-2012 and got the title of FM!.

FM Adrian Randazzo (Italy): "I have to thank Valeriy for the training sessions that have helped me improve my chess to the Fide Master level. A good assessment of the typical position in the mid­dle­game and the basic rules in the end­game was, for me, very important. I must not forget that solv­ing puz­zles helped me to main­tain con­cen­tra­tion during critical moments of my games. I highly recommend to all chessplayers the training sessions with GM Valeriy Aveskulov."

Bruce Highcock (Canada): "As an adult learning chess, I was very happy to find GM Aveskulov as a coach. He is a talented high-level player with very affordable rates, and a dedicated coach and teacher. He has shown me how to improve my game in an enjoyable and unpretentious atmosphere with an emphasis on the examination of my own games and specific training geared towards a higher level of understanding and appreciation for the game. He has a solid understanding of the principles involved in chess and key ideas in chess strategy that he conveys easily in each lesson. As well, he has a tremendous work ethic and he is dedicated to helping me improve in a direction that suits my own style and interest. He often includes attachments and pgn files following a lesson for further study or future reference and he has sent me many games of masters in openings I have shown an interest in."