GM Mikhail Bryakin

Hi everyone!

I'm GM Mikhail Bryakin, ELO 2481, professional chess coach more than 10 years.

✔️ Captain and coach of the South Africa men's Olympiad team.
✔️ Winner of many international tournaments
✔️ Author of a book “Drill your chess endgames” (2025)
✔️ Working as a second with a top-GMs.
✔️ Huge experience of working with beginners and advanced chess players.

I speak Russian, Serbian and English fluently and give classical chess education in these languages inspired by the best traditions of the Soviet chess school with the inclusion of the modern techniques.

I have won many international tournaments, including:

🏆 European youth championship in 2008.
🏆 Serbian Team Champion 2024
🏆 Montenegrian Team Champion 2024
🏆 XI Vojvodina Open 2021
🏆 GM Third Saturday Mix 220
🏆 Vladimir Open 2020
🏆 Paracin Open 2023
🏆 Belgrade Trophy 2025

I'm constantly playing in different leagues, closed and open tournaments all over the world.

Are you interested in different opening novelties?
Do you want to improve your skiills in middlegames and endgames?
Feel free to drop me a message, we will contact on Teams and start to work together to identify your unique strengths and challenges so that I can tailor all sessions to meet your individual needs.

Where there's a will, there's a way!

In addition to being an active professional player and coach, I have tried myself as a commentator of the biggest tournaments around the world, and I also have my own YouTube channel where I stream my games, as well as online tournaments.
Welcome!

📚 Great playing experience in many international tournaments, as well as a self developed methodology for teaching chess for different levels of chess, will allow to find an approach to each student and gradually turn your weaknesses into the strengths. I put a lot of emphasis on study endgames, because I have my own collections of different types of endgames.
During our lessons we will work on:
📚 Building an individual opening repertoire
📚 Improving your positional understanding
📚 Learning defense, endgame techniques
📚 Developing tactical vision and calculation
📚 Dynamic play and other aspects of the game.

For productive chess classes I use:
Teams and screen sharing there, such chess platforms as lichess.org and stepchess.ru, as well as a professional chess program Chessbase 16, with which I will tell you the secrets of work with cloud engines, game databases, and other useful features.
Don't miss the chance to learn something new!

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