Igor Khmelnitsky

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Igor Khmelnitsky earned the title of International Chess Master in 1990 after a convincing victory in the 1st Leonid Stein Memorial in L’viv, Ukraine.

Khmelnitsky is a winner of many national and international tournaments in Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and the United States. At various points during his career, he has defeated many of the game’s best players – including Lev Alburt, Boris Alterman, Viorel Bologan, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Vasily Ivanchuk, Alexander Ivanov, Oleg Romanishin, Alexander Shabalov, Evgeniy Sveshnikov, Patrick Wolff, and Alex Yermolinsky. Overall, Khmelnitsky has defeated over 30 different Grandmasters. He has participated in the Ukrainian National Championship; he has also played three times in the U.S. National Championship.

Khmelnitsky is also a very experienced coach. His first high profile coaching experience was in 1986, when he served as a coaching assistant for the Ukrainian national junior team. Several members of that team went on to become successful Grandmasters (Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Alterman, Mikhail Brodsky, Andrey Maksimenko and others…). Later Khmelnitsky assisted various leading Ukrainian players, including Yury Kruppa (now Grandmaster) and Women Grandmaster Lidia Semenova, a challenger for the World Championship Title.

Since moving to the United States in 1991, Khmelnitsky has been coaching in the Philadelphia area, as well as on-line. His students come from all over the world and include players of all levels, ranging from novices to masters.

Khmelnitsky has published comments, annotated games, and articles in various chess publications, including the most prestigious periodicals: Chess Informant, New in Chess, ChessBase, 64, Chess Life, and Chess Today. He is also the founder and publisher of the two popular chess websites www.IamCoach.com and www.ChessExam.com.

Khmelnitsky’s first book – Chess Exam and Training Guide ( 2004, IamCoach Press) was extremely well received by readers and reviewers alike. The book won the prestigious Cramer award for Best Chess Book from the Cramer Committee and the Chess Journalists of America. It is now in its fourth printing and also has been translated into French, Italian and Russian.

In 2007, Khmelnitsky’s second book in the Chess Exam series – Chess Exam and Training Guide: Tactics (IamCoach Press) came out, and also became a best-seller. Now it is in its third printing.

Khmelnitsky is a contributing author to the best-seller Masters of Success by Ivan Mizner, Ph.D. ( 2004, Entrepreneur Press).

Khmelnitsky is one of the three coauthors of Teaching Chess Step by Step, the 3-volume chess school curriculum published in 2006 by Garry Kasparov’s Chess Foundation.