Vladimir Chuchelov
Vladimir Chuchelov is a Belgian chess grandmaster and professional trainer. He won the Belgian Chess Championship in 2000. He appeared four times in the FIDE top 100, with a maximum rating of 2608. Tournament victories include number of international tournaments, among them the Hamburg HSK, Gifhorn international, Cappelle-la-Grande Open.
He made his 1st appearance as a coach in the famous Wijk aan Zee international tournament 2002, helping Dutch grandmaster Jeroen Piket. One year later he started his collaboration with another Dutch grandmaster, Loek Van Wely. From 2009 he worked for four years as the head coach of the Royal Dutch Federation.
In 2010 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. In 2013 received the Botvinnik Medal as best man's trainer 2013. He has coached international stars including Fabiano Caruana for five years and Anish Giri for four years. He has also trained former women's world champion and grandmaster Hou Yifan.
Chuchelov was Hou's second in the Women's World Chess Championship 2016.
