Master your game with private chess coaching tailored uniquely to your needs.
My chess coaching is designed to provide you with a clear plan to improve your skills.
I will help you improve your strengths and eliminate your weaknesses in order to maximise the effectiveness of your practice. With these sessions, you can learn to calculate and visualise multiple moves ahead, as well as create and execute a structured learning plan based on the content learnt.
How do we start
We begin by playing a few introductory games to establish your playing strength and initial skill set, and from there produce a structured pathway for the future.
Following this, we will then have our lessons focused on various skills, depending on what is most suitable for you.
After each lesson, you will be given a written summary of what we have been working on. On top of this, I will provide you with a personalised weekly training routine and homework.
There will also be monthly reassessments to track your progress and adjust future lessons to meet your continuously increasing abilities. This includes a long-time limit game with analysis, which will additionally help to further apply and reinforce new concepts.
Concepts we will cover
The material covered will largely depend on your abilities and what I believe will provide the most help for your game. That said, a large majority of our work will consist on improving the middlegame as I personally think that is the area with the most benefit. The main reason for this is that a good understanding of middlegames will indirectly help both your opening, and endgame. Some examples of concepts may include:
- Opening
- Opening principles
- Opening repertoire that fits your play style
- Model games and analysis of those openings
- Current opening theory and novelties
- Middlegame
- Core Middlegame Elements
- Calculation and visualisation
- Prophylaxis
- Improving pieces
- Converting an opening advantage
- Endgame
- Endgame principles
- Practical endgames
- Theoretical endgames
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Sometimes it is not possible to meet in person because of distance or other circumstances. This is not a problem. I offer the same services for online chess coaching.
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