Surfi Ahmed

Founder of Chess Max Academy, Former World Junior Champion and number 1 blitz player in the World ...

Surfi is the most popular chess coach on our team, whose amazing understanding of kids psychology ...

A leading expert on chess openings and endgames, GM Sergey Makarychev has coached world champions Garry Kasparov (Sergey was Kasparov’s principal coach from 1991 to 1994), Anatoly Karpov, and Nona Gaprindashvili...

Mark was a former Champion of Philippines and the youngest chess master in Philippines history at 9 years of age. He is currently the top coach ...

Artiom is extremely diligent and responsible when it comes to organizing the chess classes for his students, making sure that they are assigned significant homework ...

Mykola has won multiple Youth Championships in his native Ukraine - the Under 10, 18 and 20 championships, he was also the rapid and blitz champion of Ukraine ...

Marfa is a chess expert and a great kids coach. Marfa has graduated from the World famous Botvinnik Chess School in Moscow, as well as from the Orient Chess School ...

Coach Jerich has been doing chess for 2 decades already with some notable successes both as a Player and as a Coach. His coaching style is to make sure ...

Gregory has coached players to the level of International Master and has had Grandmaster level results in his prime ...

Coach Angelyn is one of the top Women coaches in the Philippines. She is also a National Master. As a coach of a University team, she coached the team to the number 2 position in the country...

Marvin is a new addition to our team who has taught our summer camps during this past summer. His strong knowledge of the game ...

Joel Adebayo is a strong FIDE Master and the most dominant player in Nigeria in the last 20 years

Expert coach Nacer has worked teaching chess to kids and adults in a variety of settings, and has great experience in conveying complicated concepts in an easy-to-understand way

Grandmaster Ulvi Bajarani is a new addition to our coaching team. Ulvi was a promising junior player in Azerbaijan, and champion in the Under 14, 18, and 20 categories in his country

Lev Alburt is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Russia, and became a three-time Ukrainian Champion.