How many points should a chess tutor ideally have?

In chess taking coach for begginers doesnt mean that higher coach has elo that he will be better teacher, that is like someone can be great profesor at college and bad techer for kids.

But definitly for taking someone to coach you should go over 2000 elo becouse if you take 1500 player to coach you, you can learn lot of things wrong.

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Rarely lose to who?

2000+ rarely lose to 1000 but Hikaru rarely lose to 2000+.

Concepts in chess are constantly evolving when chess player improve! 

e.g If a player has learned that "double pawns are bad" and keep that rigid concept, he will never explore lines behind double pawns. 

Many player never improve as they never change concepts. 

Well my highest rating here is a bit above 1 500, and I wouldn't consider coaching for money, at this stage at least. I know that I have a lot to learn before I could consider something like that (if ever).

That being said, I can still help out beginners a lot, and have some experience with some of them. For instance someone rated around 1 500 can teach a lot of basic stuff to his sibling or his kid. Sure, some of it might be suboptimal compared to what a stronger player can teach you, but it will provide a good starting point. But yeah, if you are a beginner and want to invest some money in it, you will probably try to find someone stronger than 1 500, though you definitely don't need to hire a titled player if you find someone who is a good teacher with say 1 900 rating. 

As for the comment that you want someone who will rarely lose... well if you give that player a strong enough opponent he will lose a lot, except if he is an engine or a top GM.  

Exactly. I used to think the f pawn should not be moved because it weakens the king, but after getting stomped many times when my opponents would play some silly mcdonnell attack, I started doing it myself and even picked up the birds opening. And it definitely helped

I'd say you should be titled if you want to make money.

I think 1500s can coach players below 1000 rating.

1800s can coach players below 1500 rating.

And 2200s can coach players below 2000 rating.

I mean, you aren't going to make money coaching as a 1500. 

I went a bit further than you, my friend. I developed myself the joke/theory of the "Fetish Pawn". Fetish pawn is obviously the "F" pawn, and the "theory" reads like this: "The player who First moves the "F" (Fetish) pawn two squares, has an higher probably of winning the game"!

2200 FIDE should be the starting point, in my opinion.

Any lower and there's a good chance that the coach will be teaching inaccurate ideas and/or incorrect ways of thinking.

This could instill bad habits in the student's play that a future coach will need to rectify.

Just rarely lose in general. 

Yeah I noticed that too, but normally tutors who charge too much don't get as much costumers. 

+1

This brings up a question I have, why do some non-titled players play so well? I thought titled players were the best, but I have seen many accounts on chess.com without a title and a very high rating. 

It’s possible they’re either alts or just really good at speed chess.

Impossible for any human. 

Just Stockfish rarely lose. 

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a chess coach based in California.  

 Here's my opinion:

   If you are just starting out in chess and know nothing about the game, I feel that a 1000-1200 rated player would be good to coach.  I'm rated 1850 USCF and most of my students are rated above 1000.  If I am looking for a coach myself, then I'll look for somebody who's rated above 2400 or above.

I hope that this helps. 

sounds good