HI I AM A BEGINNER AT CHESS AND I WAS WONDERING IS THERE ANY GOOD FREE CHESS COACHES THAT ARE WILLING TO TEACH ME. I PLAY FOR FUN RIGHT NOW, BUT I WANT TO BECOME BETTER SO THAT I CAN PLAY COMPETITIVE

why all the caps?

I don't know of any coach who will work with you for free, but my video lessons course is free on YouTube, and we have a member game analysis topic in our group forums you may post your games in and someone will be along to help you. Join here, over 6700 members strong: http://www.chess.com/groups/join?id=14246

Thanks aww-rats

Lim Lom I have a lot of time just no thursday/sundays

ronnie,

check ( as said above) aww-rats videos, and also  the youtube channel :

"Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis "

In particular the Seirawan video ( but not only) lectures and lessons. They start from very basic trough quite intermediate/advance level.

If you wan to get a first book i higly suggest "bobby fisher teaches chess", its a cult book. Can be found very cheap on amazon and  starts from the basic, but trough the book explains a lot of good stuff. Nothing particularly advanced but gives you solid basement on where you start to build your strenght.

Last, but not least, nobody learn something just watching videos and reading books. You have also to play ( a lot ).

Join a team and ask for friendly matches ( possibly with people stronger thatn you) with the intention to analyse the game once finished. Focus on slow games and online matches ( turn based games). Blitz games are fun, but to improve you need time to think and apply what you read/learn. You can play blitz for fun, but give online and long time matches a try because one of the most difficult think in chess its to "learn to think".

Find the candidate moves, analise weakness and imballances is not something easy to teach or learn, hence its better to have all the time you want and start learing how to think properly every move you and your opponent does. The speed will come later. If you play only blitz games you will always win/lose without really learning the correct thinking process, and often without even knowing why you won/lose.

just my 2 cents