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Ivan Sokolov
Ivan Sokolov, born in Jajce in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1968,
is a Bosnian-Dutch chess grandmaster, coach and author.
He earned the grandmaster title in 1987 and won the Yugoslav Championship one year later.
After transferring to the Dutch Chess Federation, Sokolov won the Dutch Championship in 1995 and 1998.
A long-standing member of the wider world elite, he reached his peak rating of 2706 in January 2004.
During his career, he defeated several World Champions,
including Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand.
Sokolov later also achieved considerable international success as a coach,
working with the national teams of the United Arab Emirates and Iran as well as with Alireza Firouzja.
As captain and coach, he guided Uzbekistan’s young team to a surprise gold medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai.
Sokolov has written numerous chess books, including Winning Chess Middlegames,
and produces the ongoing ChessBase training course series Understanding Middlegame Strategy,
whose 14th instalment was released in April 2026.
Published by ChessBase
You will learn how Black's dynamic piece activity and structural counterplay more than compensate for White's extra tempo in the colour-reversed setups.
In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores the fascinating world of Dutch and Grünfelkd structures with colours reversed.
In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores the fascinating world of King’s Indian and Pirc structures with colours reversed, often arising from the French or Sicilian.
Master your middlegame with the complete strategy series – now available as a bundle at a reduced price. Take your chance to save and improve!
This course will enhance your understanding of the King’s Indian Defence. Perfect for anyone looking to improve their opening strategy, reduce mistakes, and develop a winning game plan.
Instead of focusing on a rigid repertoire, the course presents key games, important strategic ideas, and opening knowledge to equip you with the essential tools to outmanoeuvre your opponents.
In this Video-Course we deal with different dynamic decisions involving pawns. The aim of this Course is to arm club/tournament players with fresh ideas which they can use in their own practice.
In this video course we deal with the French Tarrasch and the isolated Queens pawn. The aim of this Course is to arm club/tournament players with ideas which they can use in their own practice.
In this Video course we deal with the French Winawer. The aim of this course is to arm club/tournament players with middlegame ideas which they can use in their own practice.
Let Toptrainer Sokolov show you the ins and outs of middlegames. This course is about the catalan structures vs. semi-slav/triangle setups
Understanding an opening doesn’t stop after the theory. It’s essential to understand ideas and structures connected to the opening moves. In this video course, we’ll concentrate on structures in the Ruy Lopez Defence.
Understanding an opening doesn’t stop after the theory. It’s essential to understand ideas and structures connected to the opening moves. In this video course we’ll concentrate on Rossolimo and Maroczy structures in the Sicilian Defence.
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