SiberianChessFan: Psakhis is a well-known trainer these days. A great website with a large game file, pictures, a few annotated games and some quotes on him can be found here:http://www.gmsquare.com/Psakhis/ind...
He also plays at the World Chess Network. He apparently learned every game of Fischer's by heart and will challenge people to set up a position from one of Fischer's games and he will remember the name of Fischer's opponent, the year and place it was played.
http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/En...
Here is a recent write up on him:
Lev Psakhis was born in the city of Tver (then called Kalinin) in the former USSR on November 29th, 1958. He studied at the Krasnoyarsk State University’s Faculty of Law. In 1977 he achieved the rank of the Master of Sport of the USSR after winning the RSFSR championship at Volgograd. In 1979 he won the All-Union Championship of Young Masters and was awarded the International Master title the following year. In August 1980 he won a qualification tournament to the USSR Championship that was held in his hometown of Krasnoyarsk. In the ensuing 1980/1 USSR Championship he became the first non-Grandmaster to win the title at his first attempt, sharing 1st place with Alexander Belyavsky. In the 1981 USSR championship he repeated this success when he shared 1st place with Garry Kasparov (whom he defeated in their individual game). In 1982, in Yerevan, he shared 2nd-3rd place in the world championship Zonal tournament. A successful competitor in numerous team competitions, he gained his early experience playing for the sports club ‘Burevestnik’. In 1981 and 1983 he was a member of the USSR team that won the World Student’s Team Championship. In 1983 he was a member of the USSR team that won the European Team Championship. He was also the USSR champion for Active chess in 1982 and 1987. Over the years he has won, or been a prize-winner, in dozens of international tournaments.
In 1990 he immigrated to Israel, becoming national champion in 1997 and sharing 1st-3rd place with Gelfand and Smirin in 1999. He has been a member of the Israeli Olympiad team seven times. In 1997, he led the team of “Herzliya” into the European Club Championship finals. He has also twice been a member of the Israeli team in the European Team Championships, winning a gold medal for best performance on 4th board at Batumi in 1999.
Psakhis has a wealth of training experience having been a pupil at the Botvinnik school and worked with the likes of Kasparov and Yusupov in the late eighties. Since the early 1990’s he has done some highly successful work as a trainer. For some years (1994-1996) he worked with Emil Sutovsky (the World Junior Champion in 1996 and the European Champion of 2001). From 1997 to 2000 he was GM Judit Polgar’s main coach. He also acted as trainer to her older sister, Zsuzsa Polgar, from 1994 up to her win of the Women’s World Championship in 1996. Since 2001 he has trained the young Israeli chess player Maxim Rodshtein - the silver medal-winner of European Junior Championship 2002 and the World Under-16 Champion in 2004. Psakhis is also a member of the FIDE Trainers Committee.
He has written several excellent opening books: The Complete French in 1992 and The Complete Benoni in 1994. Recently he has written a highly acclaimed 4-volume update to his book on the French Defence (French Defence: Steinitz, Classical and Other Variations, French Defence 3Nc3 Bb4, Advance and Other Anti-French Variations, and French Defence 3Nd2).
