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Each encounter was short, but so memorable..

These players are now well known in chess world. In this collection you can see them very young, when they only started to win their first cups.

Here you’ll find the collection of photos with which we want to provoke your smile. I managed to take these images in different periods and hope that people who were shot on them will reveal their sense of humor and won’t be too cross with me. Please have fun and enjoy viewing them!

One can't see these photos without tender emotion. How long ago it was... Only clever eyes reveal the future grandmasters. So enjoy and smile!

New images from traditional tournament in Mainz (Germany) of rapid chess. Aronian, Grischuk, Karjakin, Shirov and of course Andrei Volokitin are participating. Thanks to Andreas Bonsen!

FIDE trainers commission invited me to give lectures on seminar in Batumi, during Europe Youth Championship. Together with Mikhail Gurevich and Giorgi Khomeriki I shared my experience with my colleagues who wanted upgrade their qualification and obtain trainer's title.

Photogallery about chess coaches seminar in Yerevan, Armenia. And also about my impressions on this country with its ancient history and famous hospitality.

10th World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad: Kocaeli 2011