My chess educational system corroborated its effectiveness in practice! My chess results then became much better вЂ“ I increased my rating to 2505, and at the young age of 20 became an International Grandmaster. After understanding some principles of a human's thinking process, I grasped why the usual way of training is so ineffective.Д¬ombining my chess experience and psychological knowledge, I started to create my own system of chess education. That's why I took an interest in psychology: it explains how the human brain works. 'How to make real progress and start to play chess better?' No one said to me: 'I know exactly what to do and I can guarantee your progress.'ДЇrom that time onward, I began to think about the right way of training and improving myself.

The coaches offered me loads of different training systems, but they didn't know the answer to this simple question. But then it came to me that a lot of new information wasn't making my game stronger!

I trained hard for about 6-8 hours a day, had many coaches and read a lot of chess books. Then I started to play mainly in the adult tournaments and realised that it wasn't so simple to win there. At the age 13 after winning several international tournaments, I achieved the title of International Master. I enjoyed the game and my rating increased quite quickly. After a year of training, I attained the First category and became champion of Sevastopol (my native town) among schoolboys.

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