I just participated in a lesson with several others where Chien presented 'the Loman move' and then provided several other examples where the main idea from the Loman move was the key idea in solving the position in the examples. From my experience, Chien is always informative,interesting, and patient , On those experiences I would recommend his ervices to anyone who might consider his coaching in chess.
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Oct 6, 2024
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#143
Chien is a masterful teacher. Not computer derivatives but reasoned, intuitive, conceptual chess. Rare indeed. Fantastic.
Oct 11, 2024
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#144
Playing routinely in classical time control is an important aspect to apply what you have learnt.
Finding peers to practice serious chess with classical time control online is not too easy -
I accommodated it by founding 90m+30s club since April 2022
https://www.chess.com/blog/fhunfi/reasons-to-join-90m-30s-chess-com-online-chess-club
I had a chance to join a free classroom organized by Chien, it was amazing! I liked the way he explain the concepts and engage you as a student making questions about the position to see if you understood correctly the concept. Today i did my first lesson with him, and i could not tell you how is important for an amateaur/beginner as i am to have the chance to have a teacher which i care about your learning.
Thank you again Chien!
Oct 14, 2024
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#146
I recently attended a live online session with Chien and a few other students. We studied a concept called the Loman Trick. It was amazing, and Chien's instruction brought it to life. I highly recommend anyone who wants to improve at chess to engage with Chien in whatever way you can.
With Chiens teaching methods you get insightful email positions in his daily course with hints in emails if you dont get the idea right but usually he takes you through the positions step by step and goes through great classical games asking questions of you so you learn the strategy behind the games and are prepared when you see the positions similar in your own games.
Chiens(Fhunfi) is alos a great teacher in the lessons he does, getting over all the complicated themes of a position and opening move nuances. he also prepared my opening in the english against the semi-slav and queens gambit just in a few minutes when i had certain specifics in the positions that i wanted to be able to play-this was very impressive...
Oct 27, 2024
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#148
Chien (fhunfi) is a great coach. I work on the positions he sends me by email and I am beginning to learn how to think differently, more productively, when I look at a position. Today we had an online session and it was great to be able to ask questions and have the opportunity to put together all the ideas we have discussed by email. He pays a lot of attention to one's thought process and that helps not only to see what are the better moves, but how to think about the position in order to understand why those moves are better.
Dec 6, 2024
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#149
Thanks for all positive feedback.
* List of all my services to Classical Chess community:
** A new recent service since 2023 --> Daily-Course-by-email
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-lessons/interactive-q-a-daily-course-by-email
There is very affordable monthly small fee for this Daily-Course-by email program. You can give it try for a month, and only if you feel like it & find it useful, then you can think to pay for the service at the end of the month. You have nothing to lose as there is no obligation to pay the service at first month if you don't find it helpful.
*** If you search for an active community to practice classical chess 90m+30s/45m+45s/60m+30s, you have found the right place:
https://www.chess.com/blog/fhunfi/reasons-to-join-90m-30s-chess-com-online-chess-club
Kind Regards and happy to serve the classical chess community.
Chien
Dec 27, 2024
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#151
I am grateful to Chien for organizing these matches. I am a lower rated player, but Chien kindly stepped up to play me. Unsurprisingly, he beat me pretty easily, but afterwards was very generous with his time and offered me some helpful insights into some of the problems with my game. Much appreciated.
Dec 28, 2024
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#152
Thanks for all your support 
Chess can be such a challenging game to learn and grow in.
My approach is to inspire players to develop a lifelong love of the game.
I try to be as encouraging as possible for my students to try their best in every game
while being kind to themselves after the game
to balance the fighting mentality with a forgiving mentality.
Chess imitates life - loss tolerance is essential too.
Stanley Kubrick (famous America movie director that also an avid chess enthusiast)
once said a very insightful quote
“Chess teaches you how to control the excitement that you feel when you see something that looks very good. It teaches you to think before you act, and to think with the same objectivity when you are in trouble”.
Dec 30, 2024
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#153
Dear Chien,
I wish you and your family a great 2025. Thank you for all you do for chess and for improving players like me. You’re the best tournament director I've ever met and a fantastic coach.
I have played several tournaments organized by Chien to practice classical chess. Recently, I also played a game against Chien, which was very instructive. He was very generous by reviewing the game with me and providing an analysis of key positions. I highly reccomend his service to chess improvers.Thank you Chien!
Jan 2, 2025
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#155
psiCHECK wrote:
I have played several tournaments organized by Chien to practice classical chess. Recently, I also played a game against Chien, which was very instructive. He was very generous by reviewing the game with me and providing an analysis of key positions. I highly reccomend his service to chess improvers.Thank you Chien!
It's my pleasure, my friend Rui.
Detail list of all my services to my students and my friends in classical chess community can be found here:
Feb 6, 2025
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#156
Chess improvement is never an instant process. It is a long journey with consistency and endurance to experience bitter & sweet experience during competitive play, immersing ourselves in the joy and passion of the process of learning and improving instead of just chasing for titles, rating, and accolade only.
Every new game regardless the result is new learning experience, either applying what we have known/ learnt or encountering a completely new situation that will be new lesson-learnt. Winning is a bonus but not everything. Applying the joy of analyzing your own game correctly using effective methods, then repeat and repeat again.
2 companions for your chess journey:
(A) Since April 2022 I founded a classical club for serious chess player who would like to practice and feel the atmosphere of the Classical 90m+30s / 60m+30 / 45m+45s time control game.
(B) Enjoy chess journey together with me, day by day (you are in full control and decide whatever pace you like) with Daily Course by email program.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-lessons/interactive-q-a-daily-course-by-email
I will be introducing, reviewing various strategic chess pattern that you haven't known or you might have known with application of it in real game situation.
Mar 13, 2025
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#157
My classes with Chien have been very helpful to me in improving my level of thinking and for the first time I have actually able to beat players more higher rated me and even learned a lot from the games I won because of his helpful analysis from time to time 
Mar 27, 2025
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#158
Seriously an outstanding coach! He comes in with a plan and understands how to explain positions. So many other coaches just talk at me and I can't follow. But, that does not happen with Chien. He does not talk over your abilities and doesn't go into 20 different variations in one lesson. His lessons are focused and easy to understand.
Apr 22, 2025
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#159
thank you fhunfi for the lessons you have been giving me they have been difficult somtimes
but very enjoyable and have taught me to enjoy my chess problems i may have with chien
am going to continue the process with chiens help
Playing a game against fhunfi was pretty nice, in my opinion. I take him for quite the generous man, but he also is an excellent teacher and helped me greatly when reviewing the game, showing me some techniques and calculations I did not know about and likely would not have learned without his help. Though I am not a professional reviewer by any means, I'll give his service five stars. Thank you very much, fhunfi!