Vladimir Chuchelov | |
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Country |
Soviet Union Russia Belgium |
Born |
Moscow |
28 September 1969
Title | Grandmaster (1995) |
FIDE rating | 2554 (April 2017) |
Peak rating | 2608 (July 2003) |
Vladimir Chuchelov (Russian: Владимир Чучелов; born 28 September 1969 in Moscow) is a Belgian chess grandmaster and professional trainer. He won the Belgian Chess Championship in 2000. He appeared four times in the FIDE top 100, with a maximum rating of 2608. Tournament victories include number of international tournaments, among them the Hamburg HSK (1991), Gifhorn international (1992),Cappelle-la-Grande Open (1994 and 2001). He made his 1st appearance as a Coach in famous Wijk an Zee international tournament 2002, helping Dutch GM J.Piket . Year later He started his collaboration with another Dutch Grandmaster Loek Van Wely. From 2009 he worked for 4 years as Head Coach of Royal Dutch Federation. In 2010 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. In 2013 received the Botvinnik Medal as best man's Trainer 2013. He is best known as the coach of 2 international stars: Fabiano Caruana 5 years (2011-2015) . and Anish Giri 4 years (2010-2013). Currently trainer of Woman World Champion GM Hou Yifan. Chuchelov was Hou Yifan's second in the Women's World Chess Championship 2016.