Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Valeri Lilov (2nd nomination)

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Valeri Lilov is a very respected teacher and is known for his high quality and pedagogic way of teaching. After a thoroughly examination of your games he will send you the video recorded session as well homework.

There was mentioned that he does not give lectures and lessons for free; who does? Can you get a professional painter painting your house for free? There are dozens of teachers on Playchess.com and ICC, and NONE of them give lessons for free, so that is a strange, to say at least, comment to make.

As for his FM title, well, he has one, plus 2 IM norms.

And for his games, which as far as i know were also doubted to be real, a real chessplayer simply can check them on a database, in my case Chessbase 10.

All the allegations are therefore false, and if someone wants to say otherwise, i would be glad to reject them.

Yours sincerely,

Laotse1970

Valeri Lilov is the chess coach--and player--I admire the most, above all others except perhaps my Uncle Wesley, who first taught me how to play and thus introduced me to this wonderful game! How high must someone reach, and how much must they accomplish, before they are deemed worthy of an article on an encyclopedia that ANYONE can edit? If I myself were to write a Wikipedia article about my chess accomplishments, that would be ludicrous because I have not made a name for myself in the chess world yet. Valeri has. He is a certified FIDE Master and legitimate chess tutor, and not some random "patzer" who posts poor-quality video chess lessons on YouTube without ANY formal ranking or ELO rating and expects people to follow his instructions. I owe this man EVERYTHING when it comes to who gets the credit for teaching me such great chess while being a fantastic player himself! If you wish Valeri to become a GM before he finds his way into the Wikipedia spotlight, I guarantee you that he'll get his norms before he's 25. If you delete this article, you delete an article about a maven! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shakhmaty (talk • contribs) 20:08, 21 July 2010 (UTC)