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Honestly I’m not very good at chess myself, I have a tip: just look for blunders made by enemies and avoid blunders yourself and try to exploit any bad moves the opponent makes
FalconXXcoroto wrote:
coach Ali how do I sign up
I am glad you are interested. You can reach me at
Whenever I start working with students who feel stuck, I usually notice the same pattern: too many fast games, not enough reflection. Most players improve more from deeply understanding 2 rapid games than mindlessly grinding 20 blitz games. That’s why I focus on teaching the core chess principles behind every move — so students learn how to think for themselves, analyze their mistakes, and steadily raise their level over time.
You can safely ignore the coaching offers. Some coaches jump on any thread like this to post the exact same message for the 4211th time and offer their services.
Using Chessable is fine. However, there is a lot of free material and free study plans. See for example:
- NM Robert Ramirez's Beginner Study Guide (600-1000 Elo) (posted on Chess.com),
- WGM Dina Belenkaya's Beginner Intermediate Study Guide (1000-1400 Elo) (also on Chess.com),
- GM Noël Studer: The One-Third-Rule: How To Take Control Of Your Chess Training and the video How I'd Train Chess If I Were Under 2000 Elo,
Learn to analyse your games in a way so you benefit from it. See Noël Studer's video How To Analyze Your Chess Games (the simple way) and the blog post The Game Review Habit That Finally Stuck by someone who used this method.
KitMarlow wrote:
You can safely ignore the coaching offers. Some coaches jump on any thread like this to post the exact same message for the 4211th time and offer their services.
Using Chessable is fine. However, there is a lot of free material and free study plans. See for example:
- NM Robert Ramirez's Beginner Study Guide (600-1000 Elo) (posted on Chess.com),
- WGM Dina Belenkaya's Beginner Intermediate Study Guide (1000-1400 Elo) (also on Chess.com),
- GM Noël Studer: The One-Third-Rule: How To Take Control Of Your Chess Training and the video How I'd Train Chess If I Were Under 2000 Elo,
Learn to analyse your games in a way so you benefit from it. See Noël Studer's video How To Analyze Your Chess Games (the simple way) and the blog post The Game Review Habit That Finally Stuck by someone who used this method.
These resources are no doubt usefule. But you are completely misunderstanding the role of an active coaching program and self training methods. Coach know what to do how to do and how many times to do. In self training you read every chapter of every course and believe me 80% is useless for you. Coach customised diagnosis & study plans according to need and on experience based on previous subjects..
Self training methods are lengthy and Slow growth without any certainty. Live Coaching is based entirely on person's strengths and weaknesses when self-trainings are very generalised.
I hope you get my point.
Coach_Ali wrote:
KitMarlow wrote:
You can safely ignore the coaching offers. Some coaches jump on any thread like this to post the exact same message for the 4211th time and offer their services.
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These resources are no doubt usefule. But you are completely misunderstanding the role of an active coaching program and self training methods. Coach know what to do how to do and how many times to do. In self training you read every chapter of every course and believe me 80% is useless for you. Coach customised diagnosis & study plans according to need and on experience based on previous subjects..
Self training methods are lengthy and Slow growth without any certainty. Live Coaching is based entirely on person's strengths and weaknesses when self-trainings are very generalised.
I hope you get my point.
Let's not pretend that working with a coach guarantees rapid progress. Some coaches are good some are outright bad. It's easy to find forum posts etcetera about bad experiences. Some food for thought for players who are considering finding a coach:
- Bad experience with a coach (Chess.com Forums, March 2023).
- My problem with chess coaches (Chess.com Forums, December 2023).
- unprofessional chess coaching is the standard (on the Lichess forums); quote: "I took a few classes with an IM that literally slept during the class in front of the camera when I was trying to solve an exercise he gave me".
- BEWARE OF THE BAD TRAINER! (Chess.com blogs, January 2022).
- Bad experience with a coach? (Reddit, October 2023).
I haven't worked with a coach (obviously lol) but some of the better players at my chess club have coaches.
I listened to an interview with NFL player Justin Reid, who won the NFL blitz chess tournament, and Reid said he won the tournament by working with a GM coach. They reviewed his opponents' games here prior to the tournament and made special preparations. Not sure who his GM coach was but it seems like that coach set him up for success.
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I listened to an interview with NFL player Justin Reid, who won the NFL blitz chess tournament, and Reid said he won the tournament by working with a GM coach. They reviewed his opponents' games here prior to the tournament and made special preparations. Not sure who his GM coach was but it seems like that coach set him up for success.
According to Surprise Sports, Justin Reid's total career earnings are estimated at $50 Million+. The guy earns more in a year than I will make in a lifetime. No wonder he can pick a good coach.
Reid is a smart guy on and off the field and has a lot going for him, including finances. The main point is that the right person with the right coach will deliver results. Just like anything in life.
AttilaTurzo wrote:
Honestly, I think you are already doing many good things for improvement. 🙂
One important thing though:
a lot of players try to improve mainly by consuming more information:
more videos, more courses, more puzzles, more opening lines.
But very often the real progress starts when a player begins understanding their own thinking process during games…
What part of chess feels the most confusing to you right now personally?
Openings, middlegames, tactics, calculation, or something else? 🙂
Great advice in this post. There’s some good posts in this thread, but I believe you have to self-diagnose what parts of chess you believe aren’t as strong for you as they could be. For most beginners to intermediate level players, I typically refer them either to endgames (basic checkmates, common theoretical endgames etc.), or solving tactics puzzles to build pattern recognition. There’s way more to chess than endgames and tactics, but this already will help you build a solid foundation.
I also have a blog post I wrote years ago which may help you a lot. The topic relates to the opening, but I’ve included a TON of helpful links at the bottom of the blog post and they are mostly not opening things:
https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again
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