The Opening
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The founders are the Grandmaster Merab Gagunashvili and his wife, Woman International Master Marija Stojanovic-Gagunashvili, together with their dear friend, multiskilled enterprenuer Ucha Dzimistarishvili.

Founded in 2020 in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, a land of tea and chess, Gagunashvili Chess Academy already won the Matching Grant Program by Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency for a start-up company.

We are truly recognized and supported by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Georgia.

The main goal of our prestigious online Academy is to make chess approachable to everyone: from children who need to learn to people who strive to improve.

We have formed a team of experienced instructors who would like to share their chess knowledge, because they love both the game and the people from all over the world. Academy team is still active on the international chess stage – being there professionally as instructors, players, and arbiters. That is very good, because they certainly are updated and familiar with hottest trends and have exclusive, “hand on” experience, taking your child from beginner to grandmaster level.

GM Merab Gagunashvili

WIM Marija Stojanovic-Gagunashvili

Kosara Fernandez Manrique

FT Agustin Fernandez Manrique

GM Mihajlo Stojanović

Jovan Todorović

We organize individual and group lessons for children of different ages and chess levels, and the lessons are held in as many as five languages:

English

Spanish

Russian

Georgian

Serbian

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Specialization: teaching from 1300 to advanced level players

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GM Merab Gagunashvili

GM Merab Gagunashvili was born in Tbilisi where he started playing chess at the age of six and repeatedly won Georgian championships in the age categories. He represented Georgia in several European and world championships in the age categories. He finished second in the Junior World Championships when he was 16 and by the age of 17, he had won the title of grandmaster and became Georgia’s youngest grandmaster. He participated in and won many international tournaments, as well as individual medals at European team championships. In 2004 and 2007, he participated in the individuals’ World Cup.

For the last 10 years, he has worked as a coach and a second. He was head coach of Kuwait’s national team at the 2018 Olympics and Iraq’s national team at the 2011 Arab Games.

With his wife Maria, he founded the Gagunashvili Online Chess Academy and works with children and adults from all over the world. He has been a Fide Instructor since 2016.

He teaches classes in English, Russian and Georgian.

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Specialization: teaching from beginner level to 1800 ELO

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WIM Marija Stojanovic-Gagunashvili

WIM Marija Stojanovic-Gagunashvili was born in Belgrade and started learning chess from her father at the age of 4. She has participated in tournaments since the age of 8 and has repeatedly won the Yugoslav championship in the age categories. At the European Chess Championship, she won bronze medals in individual and team under-18 competitions. She has participated in many domestic and international tournaments. She won the WIM title at the 2014 Olympics, where she played for the Montenegro team.

She has had the title of International arbiter since 2010 and has arbitered at many European children’s and adult championships, European clubs CUP, and world championships for children, as well as many domestic and international tournaments.

She graduated with a degree in economics in Belgrade and founded the chess club “Stojanovic Sisters” together with her sister Kosara. The two designed and ran projects “Children in Chess” – working as chess coaches with hearing impaired children and children with learning disabilities in 2011, and “Chess in kindergarten”- working as chess coaches in Belgrade kindergartens with children aged 4 to 6.5 years from 2011. She worked as a journalist in the daily newspaper Politika writing a chess column and as the host of the chess show “Chess +”.

She has been coaching since 2004 and she won first place in the Junior League of Belgrade as head coach with children from her “Stojanovic Sisters” chess school. She has coached children individually and her students won medals at the championships of Serbia, Montenegro, and the State of Tamil Nadu.

She has the FIDE Instructor title which she was awarded at a seminar held in 2014.

She teaches classes in English, Spanish and Serbian.

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Ucha Dzimistarishvili

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Specialization: teaching from beginner level to 1500 ELO

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Kosara Fernandez Manrique

Kosara Fernandez Manrique was born in Belgrade and began learning chess from her father at the age of 4. She actively started participating in tournaments at the age of 9 and won Belgrade’s championships in the age categories. With her sister, she repeatedly won the Belgrade and Yugoslav high school championships and she individually won Belgrade’s student championship.

She graduated with an economics degree in Belgrade and together with her sister Maria founded the “Stojanovic Sisters” chess club. The two designed and ran projects “Children in Chess” – working as chess coaches with hearing impaired children and children with learning disabilities in 2011, and “Chess in kindergarten”- working as chess coaches in Belgrade kindergartens with children aged 4 to 6.5 years from 2011. She worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper Sports Journal writing a chess column and as a host of the chess show “Chess+”.

After moving to Spain, she worked as a coach at a club in Tenerife and coached chess at several different elementary schools. Her students won first place in the team primary school championships for higher and lower grades. As an individual coach with multiple students, she wins medals at the Tenerife and Canary Islands championships.

She has had the title of the International arbiter since 2010 and has arbitered at many European championships for children and adults, European clubs CUP, the world championship for children, as well as many domestic and international tournaments.

Kosara is a National Instructor and teaches classes in Spanish and Serbian.

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Specialization: teaching from beginner level to 1800 ELO

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FT Agustin Fernandez Manrique

Agustín Fernandez Manrique was born in Las Palmas, Spain. He has been a chess enthusiast from an early age. He participated in many domestic and international tournaments. He is a member of the Spanish team for the blind and visually impaired and has participated in many European championships and Olympics. With the national team, he won two third places in the team and individually at the world championships and Olympics held in Spain and India in 2012 and 2013.

For the last 30 years, he has been working at a chess club in Tenerife as a coach, and he works with different age groups. He worked with WIM Maria Stojanovic-Gagunashvili as a second when she won the WIM title at the Olympics in 2014. As a coach, he participated in chess camps held in Serbia in 2005 and 2006.

He has been a FIDE Instructor since 2016. He teaches classes in Spanish.

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Specialization: teaching from 1300 to advanced level players

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GM Mihajlo Stojanović

GM Mihajlo Stojanovic was born in Belgrade and started showing interest in chess at a very early age. He repeatedly won Yugoslavia’s championship in the age categories and represented the country at European and world championships. He participated in and won many international individuals and team tournaments in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, and many other countries.

He has been a chess coach for more than 20 years. At the last Olympics, he coached and captained the Japanese team. Since 2005 he has been the title holder of FIDE Instructor and from 2006 to today, he coached the national teams of Serbia, Switzerland, and Japan. As an individual coach, he worked with GM Ivan Ivanisevic, GM Nikola Sedlak, WGM Anđelija Stojanovic, WGM Ana Benderać, and children of different ages.

He teaches classes in English and Serbian.

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Specialization: teaching from 1300 to advanced level players

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Jovan Todorović

IM Jovan Todorovic was born in Kraljevo, where he made his first chess steps. He participated in many domestic and international tournaments, which enabled him to win the IM title in 2008. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade and currently works as a physics teacher in an elementary school.

Since 2000 he has worked as an individual and team coach, and he was awarded the title of FIDE Instructor in 2018. As an individual coach, he worked with GM Borki Predojevic, GM Boban Bogosavljevic, GM Velimir Ivic – the youngest Serbian grandmaster, WGM Andjelija Stojanović, WGM Marija Rakić, WGM Jovana Eric, WIM Adela Velikic, WIM Marija Stojanović-Gagunashvili and children of different ages.

He teaches classes in English, Russian and Serbian.

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