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Marian Petrov is an accomplished professional chess coach, theorist, and Bulgarian champion in 2002 and 2017, as well as the winner of many open tournaments around the world. Also a FIDE trainer and coach of the team of Wales at the last Olympiad in Baku in 2016.

He graduated from the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria with a Bachelor’s degree in Chess Pedagogy, a four-year undergraduate program designed to prepare top-level chess trainers.

Marian recorded numerous courses for TheChessWorld as well as written many articles on various chess topics.

Chess Articles by GM Marian Petrov

World Chess Championship 2018 – Game 3

world chess championship 2018 game 3Game 3 of the match ends in a draw, with Caruana getting a promising position out of the opening but then ending up worse by the end! The opening was looking a bit boring even after Carlsen surprised everybody with Qc7. Looks like the strategy of Caruana is just to have a solid position with […]

World Chess Championship 2018 – Game 2

world chess championship 2018 game 2Game 2 of the World Chess Championship Match is over. Everyone expected Carlsen to win after he missed a win in game 1 with Black. However, that’s not what happened. In fact, Fabiano Caruana was able to get an extra pawn in the rook endgame, which still ended in a draw after only 49 moves.

World Chess Championship 2018 – Game 1

world chess championship 2018 game 1The Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson has made the first move of the match and he played 1.d4… Caruana was amazed and asked can he take back the move! It turned out later that this was a joke from the actor. Who would have predicted that the first game in this Match will be in Sicilian […]

World Chess Championship 2018 – What You Need to Know?

world chess championship 2018The World Chess Championship 2018 is an upcoming chess match between the reigning world champion since 2013 Magnus Carlsen and challenger Fabiano Caruana to determine the World Chess Champion. The 12-game match, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon, will be played in London, at The College in Holborn, between 9 and 28 November […]