Michael W. Raphael
Target Students:
New to Chess ( <1000), Beginner (1000-1400)
| Service |
Description |
Price |
| Chess 101 |
Provides an 1-hour general overview of the basics of chess. |
$20.00 |
| Private General Lesson |
Provides general instruction & feedback for your improvement in an online format. This rate is per an hour. |
$35.00 |
| Group General Lesson |
Provides general instruction & feedback for a group of students wishing for improvement in an online format. This rate is per an hour. |
$45.00 |
| Training Games |
10 5-minute Blitz Games |
$25.00 |
| Game Analysis |
Provides feedback upon a previously played game. This rate is per a game. |
$15.00 |
| Tactical Assessment |
This will assess your current tactical strength and will provide feedback for improvement. |
$50.00 |
| Strategic Assessment |
This will assess your current positional strength and will provide feedback for improvement. |
$50.00 |
| Endgames Assessment |
This will assess your current endgame strength and will provide feedback for improvement. |
$50.00 |
| Openings Assessment |
This will assess your current proficiency in a particular opening and will provide feedback for improvement. |
$100.00 |
| Full Chess Assessment |
This will assess your current strength in tactics, positional proficiency, general openings, & endgames. |
$200.00 |
| 10 Game Analyses |
Provides feedback upon 10 previously played games. |
$125.00 |
| 10 Private General Lessons |
Provides general instruction & feedback for your improvement in an online format. This rate for 10 1 hour lessons. |
$300.00 |
| Personal Coaching |
This service covers Chess 101 (optional); 20 private general lessons; game analysis of 32 'over the board' tournament games; and much more!!! See full description below! |
$1,000.00 |
About Me:
I have been actively coaching students since 2005. I am the author of the renowned ReViewing Chess (TM) book series (with a total of 10 books in the Top 100 Best Selling Kindle Chess Books) and am currently working on a project called Master Your Chess Memory. As a sociologist, I understand the problems life presents in studying chess and I am proud to help you overcome those problems. My lessons do not just help you become a better chess player -- they teach you how to apply chess to your life so that checkmate is tangible!
To see some interesting tournament games of mine, search for me in Chessbase or look here.
Lessons are offered in English via Skype/Chess.com. Due to a rise in transportation costs, services offered in person will have a $15 surcharge.
Past Achievements
Most of my chess acheivements up to this point were scholastic, including my 3 state titles however I did place 5th in the U.S. Chess Federation’s 2006 Chess Live Grand Prix out of more than 500 players. I have just recently gratuated from Northeastern University where I wrote my senior thesis entitled Chess: The Preface to a Technical Resource for Scoiology. I founded the Chess Club at Northeastern University which has taken Boston University's Top College prize numerous times. I have played in more than 100 over the board tournaments and more than 8000 games of chess online.
***Personal Coaching Serivce***
Students who purchase my "Personal Coaching" service will receive Chess 101 (optional); 20 private general lessons; game analysis of 32 'over the board' tournament games; 3 sets of assessments (tactical, strategic, general openings, & endgames) conducted after the 1st lesson, after lesson 10 and before lesson 20; 30 5-minute Blitz Training Games conducted at the same interval and 4 30-minute tournament condition games with post-mortem analysis as well as access to my vast library of electronic materials & 10 volumes of my ReViewing Chess series.
This service is designed to take a student new to chess up to tournament level strength.