FREE Chess Lessons from a 1200!

Come on, you/re 2037 bullet.

It moves in an L shape, 2 squares and then 1.

It is the only piece that can jump over other pieces.

Sorry, 2042. I thought it was 2037.

Oh, you have high RD.

Rating Deviation

Hey, beginner here, determined to learn

I invited you.

I’d be a little careful coaching too close to your rating: you’ll impart whatever bad habits are stopping you from progressing on to your students. I mean no offence by this, but there’s a reason you’re at 1200 - there’ll be serious gaps in your chess knowledge. Teaching absolute beginners? Good - you know how the pieces move and basic principles, you can help them learn. Teaching 1000s? You’ll teach them to play like a 1200 if they’re lucky, but that’s not going to empower them to improve beyond your level, and you will have some fundamental issues with your chess that you’ll be passing on to your students…

Hello, I'm a beginner, I'm interested. How does it work?

Im a 2100 rapid Player, i would be interested in trying out the Assistent coach thing

What sort of coaching would you provide to players beneath your 1200 rating? I've never heard of a low intermediate player really being a coach. You see that when they get to master rating. This is probably due to it not being inherently difficult to get to at least 1200-1500. Would you just say to work on your tactics, think before moves, see if you're blundering a piece in one move, and your good to go? You're not strong enough to see all the nuances of a position, nor explain why one candidate move is better than another, so it would be hard to explain to a lower rated person what they decided to do is inaccurate.

I teach them the basics, and I can explain why a candidate move is better than another and see nuances in a position. I am currently 1233.

With all the respect in the world, mate, if you saw the nuances of the position well enough and consistently identified the best candidate moves, you'd be higher rated than 1200...

I think you are overestimating yourself here. I think you really have to realize what coaching entails. Coaching isn't just saying, "Yeah, don't move there, you'll hang your queen." That's general advice. Coaching is more specific, focuses on specific parts of their game and playstyle, and requires to really understand chess in a way you are able to explain it. It would be like trying to explain calculus to someone if you only saw a few pictures of calculus in action. I agree with DoYouLikeCurry here, because rating typically corresponds with playing strength, and playing strength typically corresponds to how you understand the position.

1200! is about 6.35 x 10^3175. at that point you lost elo for winning because even stockfish is googols of rating points below you. "if you mean 1200, you are not competent to coach people" - a 500

The ! was for emphasis

Not to show a factorial

Not true. Depends on the rating of the other player. An 1200 player cannot teach a 1000-1100 player but can teach a <800 player for example.

I am trying to recruit 2000+ assistant coaches.

2000 is a lot of coaches.

Rated 2000 or up, not 2,000 total assistant coaches.