Mark Dvoretsky

Excerpt from (amended): Scottish Chess, Issue 200, October 2005.

by Jacob Aagaard

Over four days at the end of August Mark Dvoretsky, the personal trainer of world class players such as Dreev, Yusupov, Dolmatov, Motylev, Bologan, Zvagensiev, Inarkiev and many others visited Glasgow to give a series of lectures on positional play. A total of 27 people turned up to see the man known as "the best trainer in the world" talk about how a practical player will approach various positional problems. The examples were both deep and simple, so there was something fo all levels. Players from approximately 1600 up to 2450 followed the lectures, and in the survey performed on the last day, the satisfaction with the event was 4.74 from a scale of 1 to 5. No one stated that they did not enjoy it.