IM Piotr Nguyen

International Master since 2016, born in 1991 in small Polish city Tomaszów Lubelski (south-east part of Poland).

Currently living in Warsaw (the capital of Poland) and working as R&D Manager at Samsung R&D Institute Poland.

You can also follow my fanpage: www.facebook.com/chesscoaching/ where I share my thoughts

I've started playing chess in 2000 when I was 9 years old. Since then I participated in national junior championship every year and in 2005 I came 2nd in classical and 1st in rapid.

My top 25 performances (including only tournaments with at least few IMs):
3031 - Ostravsky Konik 2024 (100% result)
2620 - Zadar 2017 (1st GM norm)
2535 - Open Roquetas de Mar 2019
2531 - Najdorf Memorial (Warsaw) 2015 (3rd IM norm)
2520 - Graz 2017
2519 - XI International Cracow Championship 2022
2517 - LXI Warsaw Championship 2008
2508 - London Chess Classic 2015 (4th IM norm)
2503 - Karpos Open 2017 (Skopje)
2499 - Max Zavanelli Memorial (Vilnius) 2018
2496 - Budapest Spring Festival 2024
2492 - Polish Extraliga 2022
2488 - Lublin Union Memorial 2017
2485 - Prague Chess Festival (Open) 2019
2487 - Olomouc Chess Summer 2009 (1st IM norm)
2483 - Polish Extraliga 2023
2480 - Graz 2016
2478 - Najdorf Memorial (Warsaw) 2016
2477 - Gabicce Mare 2017
2473 - Ostravsky Konik 2012 (2nd IM norm)
2468 - Chigorin Memorial (Saint Petersburg) 2016
2461 - Prague Chess Festival (Open) 2020
2459 - Polish Seniors League (Mrzeżyno) 2010
2454 - Pardubice 2019
2453 - Slovak Extraliga 2021/2022

I love participating in different international events around the world. So far I’ve played chess in such foreign countries like Czech Republic (14 classical tournaments), Italy (4), Austria (4), Hungary (4), Croatia (4), Greece (3), Spain (3), France (3), Slovakia(2), Montenegro, Germany, Ukraine, Romania, England, Russia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Serbia and Portugal. I hope I will visit much more in the future!

I've been self coaching myself since year 2005 when my rating was around 2000 and I managed to cross 2300 barrier in 3 years. At that time I've started giving some lessons for other players.

Since 2008 I have been teaching players across different levels (from beginners to masters) from many countries. I mainly teach adult improvers, however in years 2015-2019 I was giving group sessions to the best junior players under 14 in Masovian Voivodeship.

In 2016 I founded Infoszach (infoszach.pl/) which became leading chess news website in Poland. In 2018 I was awarded "Journalist of the Year" title by Polish Chess Federation.

I have some experience as a commentator in both Polish and English. My biggest highlight was to be the official commentator during World Rapid & Blitz Championship held in Poland in 2021.

I also published some courses on chessable ("Accelerate The Dragon" in 2018, "From Berlin to Rio" in 2021 and Liftetime Repertoires: O'Kelly Sicilian" in 2024.)

I mainly focus on game analysis and opening preparation (including lots of work on the structures and plans). I can also offer training games or some lessons on some strategical themes.

I conduct lessons using google meets where I can share my screen and we can also use lichess studies.