Hello everybody!

 My name is Matías Ianovsky. I am a FIDE Trainer and full time professional chess coach. 

 I am here to present a 4 week course for players between 1400 and 1700 rating on Chess.com (blitz or rapid) who are looking to learn new skills and resources to get their play to the next level.

The course addresses a set of concepts that usually are not available online, but in my experience are absolutely fundamental to improve.

 We are going to have 4 sessions of one hour and a half covering these main topics: Positional Chess, Intuition and Analysis. Each session will be a mix of theoretical exposition and challenging practical training. After each session the participants will receive homework and support material.

Course Syllabus (1400 – 1700 Rating)

Learning objectives:

• Learn the positional chess foundations
• Understand the most important positional techniques
• Recognize typical pawn structures and their associated standard plans
• Develop the ability to increase a positional advantage little by little
• Build the intuition and the “feeling” to take decisions
• Note the difference between the best move and the best practical move
• Learn how intuition can help in desperate or losing positions
• Develop a consciousness of the type of mistakes players around 2000 make and the way to avoid them
• Learn how to analyze games without engine help

  Session Details:

 First class: Positional chess 1

The objective of this session is to summarize many of the most important positional techniques and ideas (piece restriction, pseudo- tempi loss, blockade, minor pieces maneuvering, prophylaxis, the exchange sacrifice, crafting a long-term plan, redeployment, among others)

 Second class: Positional chess 2

In this session, we will review some high level positional games paying special attention to different pawn structures and the techniques applied to slowly increase the advantage. In addition, we are going to check and collectively analyze the homework assigned (positional puzzles).

Session 3: Intuition

We will highlight the importance of the intuition in the decision making process.

To do so, we will analyze carefully chosen positions to develop the ability to play “in the spirit of the position”. In other words, “feeling” what the position requires, without too much calculation, or deep analysis.

Session 4: Analysis

Before this lesson, the students will receive two games (specifically selected) by players around their same strength to analyze in depth. The objective is to identify all the mistakes (from the little positional inaccuracies to the big tactical blunders) and proposing better alternatives. In the lesson, we are going to check, compare and discuss the analysis between the students. The main goal of this exercise is that the students can gain consciousness of the type of mistakes that normally players around their strength fall into and learn how to analyze their own games without engines help. It is a much more useful training method than analyzing the usually more abstract and complex GM´s games. 

Course Total Length: 4 Lessons of 1 hour and a half.

Platform: Zoom 

Full price of the course: 40 USD per participant (Payments are made by Paypal, you don't need to have an account on Paypal)

Number of participants: Min 4 players, Max 8 players 

Rating required: between 1400 and 1700 on Chess.com blitz or rapid (can do an exception if your rating is slightly above or below those numbers)

Schedule: Suggested time and date is Wednesday after 5 pm EST or Saturdays after 2 pm EST. But we will try to be flexible to find a day and time convenient for all the participants. The plan is to start mid December 2022 or January 2023.

Registration: If you want to participate please send me a DM here on Chess.com.

 Any other question please let me know!

About the coach: I'm from Argentina. I run a chess academy called ReyesyPeones - Kingpawn Academy.

Certified as FIDE Trainer (FT), FIDE School Instructor (FSI) and Docente de Ajedrez by FEDA, I have been teaching chess for almost 19 years in schools, chess clubs and private lessons. My ELO FIDE is 2218.

          My peak ratings online:
          Chess: Blitz 2718. Bullet: 2785 (Percentile 99.9%)  Nickname:  “donwhitenoise”
          Lichess: Blitz 2653. Bullet: 2730 (Percentile 99.9%) Nickname “BreatEastonEllis”

          Top 40 Players Chess 960 Lichess

I have and I had students in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, England, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

My coach profiles: https://www.chess.com/member/borocotoajua                     

                              https://lichess.org/coach/borocotoajua00

Thanks!