Coaching

I've been on the forums for so long I'd say I have no life. During these times I've seen many silly coaching forums, usually made by lower rated players. The epitome of silliness was when I saw a thread started by a... wait for it... 1000 rated player. 

Like, what are you going to teach your students? wait, let me go back to the start. WHO is going to be your student? Some 500 rated player? What are you gonna teach them? How to move the pieces? I seriously doubt a 1000 rated player is capable of understanding the Nd2-f1-g3 knight maneuver in the ruy lopez/italian game, which just so happens to be a very simple concept. Most likely 1000 rated players do not know what they are doing in the middlegame... playing moves like a3 or h3 because they do not understand the position.

Is that what you are going to teach your students? "Oh, I played a3 in this position because it was my move" "Oh I played h3 to hit the bishop, then I played g4 because it attacked my bishop even though I castled kingside" 

If the prospective coach is around 1500+ rating then that should be fine, at least. You may know some maneuvers but I do not believe 1500s have a well rounded enough chess education to be coaching others - especially if those others have a drastically different playstyle.

Example: if you're a 1.e4 gambit player and love tactical shots and opposite side castling, I highly doubt you are going to be able to handle any sort of Carlsbad position properly. Chances are the 1500 may try to launch a kingside attack with h4-h5 instead of the minority attack, leading to a quick loss (because black is the one attacking on the kingside). 

And going over the game the player will be like "oh no, why did I lose? engine says h4 is bad, but I don't understand. why is a3 the best move?

So, you might ask. What is the point of this really long rant? Well, if you're under 1500 I'd say don't think about coaching. Your rating isn't high enough. You do not have the chess skills needed to coach others, and if you do chances are you'll coach them badly, so that they'll have to unlearn what they have learned. And chances are, the low rated "coach" will simply be repeating what they've heard without really understanding:

"Don't push the f pawn, it weakens your king" « very common example.

And No, I'm not being toxic. Being toxic is making fun of you for trying to help others. But here, I believe coaching is a waste of your time (for both the coach and his/her student) if the coach has a rating sub-1500. Would you rather have me butter them up, saying "omg you're soooo coach material you'll be great my guy" and then they become depressed when they realize, "hey, coaching is really hard, my student doesn't really understand me most of the time, I have to prepare lessons for the next class, I have to know my material, etc..." And if you do have that work ethic, that's great. 

But it doesn't change the hard truth. I can't say this without sounding mean, but if you're bad at chess you have no business coaching people. 

Report me if you want but you're not fooling anyone but yourself.

Ah I was going to make a forum about this too. Lol I still might make one

now i'm a 1550, I offer coaching for 73$ an hour and will teach you how mister horsey moves

I did this instead of doing my homework. Oh well, I don't have school today anyways.

I was there

to witness

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EVERYTHING UNFOLDING YA

@shanlee132

believe it or not the thread i was referencing to was not the one you think. The thread I meant was around a couple months back. llama or steven might remember idk

I am smart boi

I offer coaching for $693024932 dollars an hour

I give reasonable prices

I teach teach how piece piece moves!!111111!!!1!!1

NO FAIRZ>: (

ONLY I TEACH HOW HORSI MOVES,

also i teach for low low price of 69420$ haha funny nombre

It's just what kids do.

I remember during the start of COVID there were topics like "let me teach you how to wash your hands" and stuff. Obviously just repeating things they'd heard at school. I don't think it's about teaching, it's just sort of a reflex. It's what's in their heads at the moment, so they talk about it.

I offer coaching for... wait, how many nines is that?

I'm surprised that you even know how the horsy moves

SILVERWRITER

I just saw this...

pog

he moves in œ obviously

haha I have achieve comedy 

what goin on here

@shanlee lol

XD

how did black win he didn't even call uno(((((((((((((

It's less like coaching and more like reiterating. You may or may not (most likely the latter) understand what you were taught. For example, I thought I solved chess when I saw this move:

My idea was very shallow: Trade queens because... Well, I don't know... because there isn't anything better?

But the real idea was much deeper: after trading queens, black ends up with a horribly passive bad bishop vs knight endgame, and white has total domination of the d file, and white has more space. 

If I Was white and won, I would have been like "wow magic!" while top players would be like "wow, logic!"