My best achievements are:
The Ukrainian Champion of 2007.
3-times prize winner on the first World Mind Sports Games (Bejing, 2008) as the member of the Ukrainian national team.
The silver prize winner of the World Rapid Championship U-12 (Paris, 1998).
The winner and prize winner of international tournaments held in Oklahoma, Miami, Chicago (USA), Pavlodar (Kazahstan), Minsk (Belarus), Saratov (Russia), Lviv, Kharkiv (Ukraine) and others.
Starting from 2009 I stopped active playing and have been coaching online. Information about my coaching approach and students' achievements is presented on my web page: www.chesstao.com.
In 2012 the Gambit Publications Ltd has printed my first book Attack with Black dedicated to the opening repertoire against 1.d4 based on the Benko and Blumenfeld gambits.
Having been coaching for quite a long, I have been always adding examples to different folders on my computer. Recently I have felt, that it is time to share all this with a chess audience. This is the first book from the series, which is going to include both endgame and strategic topics (such as practical opposite colored bishop endgames; practical pawn endgames; positional exchange sacrifice; prophylaxis; play with two bishops and others).
