I am searching for a chess coach with some "qualifications". Somebody interested?

I got you boy $5 an hour

 

whatever you play, play for long term advantages, learn from your games, have fun, and you will do well. playing at a local club, exchanging ideas with people, testing your own ideas against the machine or a lessons trainer also helps.  also master your fundamentals.  then you can play anything you like and not be totally incompetent.  or you will do very, very well up to 2400 level.  good luck.

Hi Bobby, yes, you are right, I should invest in tactics. You know, I am trying to improve my game as a whole, and I am probably training more tactics than the average of players here. But I know that this is still not enough. However, I feel that big gaps in openings will not help me much, especially when the game get rather wild within the first 10 moves. I feel that having strong tactic skills will not be a good help if I have to fight because I got a bad position early in the game. Again: tactics is important, but I can learn this with a program; the same will endgames. But what about the passage from middle to endgame? There a coach would be probably very useful - to show me what I am missing, kind of things that I do not understand at all, and so on. This is why I am searching for a coach. 

Yes, I need good chess partners to play OTB. Recently I was talking with a guy who played the International Tournament in Biel, Switzerland. He is something like 1850. We went through his game, and this was the first time I was discussing plans, mini-operations in the middlegame, endgame etc with a stronger player than me.  With such people around me some hours per week I would get automatically stronger. 

OK, I'm going to unfollow this thread and see if I get a message from you at some point. Good luck.

Okay, this is certainly an idea; I did not try it yet. Did you do this already?

Hi people, just to let you know, I found a coach, an USCF expert. Thank you for commenting.

Good Luck!

Regarding your "elometer" estimate, I took the test and scored 1953 with [1829...2078], but my USCF is only 1385, FICS from August 2014 of 1440, chess.com blitz of 1540 a year ago, 1740 now, and a recent peak of 1852. The reason for the overestimate is the nature of the puzzles: they are only one move long and do not test consistency over an entire game. However, this does not mean I don't have the skill to beat an expert or lose a won game, as shown in the games below. Knowing an opening well does not mean it will provide much use when someone deviates, just as tactical skill won't provide a ton of use without strong positional play. The rating that shows up on your profile is 1453, which is consistent with your tactics rating of 1375. Considering tactics were boosted by about 200-300 points, this means that your tactical skill is far below your openings; to the point where "simple" mistakes are prominent. If you don't put in work to master the fundamental tactics, the opening preparation is useless. 

 

Not being rude, but if you don't understand the long-term plans of your chosen openings, then you don't "understand" how to play those openings. You've memorized the moves with an absence of understanding as to what you're supposed to try to accomplish in those lines. You can get to 1800+ easily and even 2000+ without that understanding but it's much easier to have it beforehand. Otherwise, you'll spend a lot of time reprogramming your brain to think the correct way as far as openings are concerned. Just a thought. Find the right books, the right site, the right coach or just a friend that can show you what you're missing in studying the opening. It really does make a world of difference. I did it by learning how to plan in the endgame first - then the opening and middlegame "clicked" for me and that understanding came like a bolt from the blue.. I just suddenly "got it"

He is from my country but i would not recommend him. Watching bunch of his chesscom lessons and opinion from private student and .. No.

I don't think you need title player. Is not like the past where 1800 rated players are completely patzers, now with computer helps even kids are extremely tough and strong.  As you said it yourself any 2000 rated fide player with enough chess experience will do the job. There are plenty of videos online from title players with free general lessons. And that's what 1500 rated really need - general lessons - fixing their holes in chess understanding. You need strong coach only when you are well balanced player who hits a wall - thats where a private title coach can analyze you and sink deep in your abillities and improve them.

If you need help send me a message to my personal account. I am 2281 Fide and charge $5 an hour. I will do Skype lessons if you are down

All payments are after lessons are complete.

I can give you 1 free trial lesson to see if you like it.

I am aware that the long-term plans are essential to understand openings. The best way to learn openings would be therefore to go through a lot of games played by GMs and see how the games ended. However, I follow the advice of some coaches (and this advice is rather controversial both between strong and weak players) that it is useful to have an opening repertoire for black and white, and this takes a lot of time.

The question is:how could I learn such an extensive opening repertoire AND at the same time go through hundred of games in all the lines? Do you see the problem? I have to make decisions, and this means for me to learn then repertoire first and afterwards to go through hundred of games (to understand the long term plans, the passage from middle- to endgame, etc).

I do not like the idea to be crushed by weak players who play dubious but tricky lines. If I come out from the opening with a playable position, I still can blunder, of course, but I will blunder faster without any idea how to play the openings.

I am memorising my lines, you are right. But I try more or less to understand the moves. The understanding sometimes comes from going through the variations. Sometimes the result is clear, you can force a draw as black, and often you have a position where the author of the repertoire tell you something how to proceed.

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Email me at erabin66@gmail.com or call (917)776-1306 to ask any questions or set up a free 30 minute consultation.

Best,

Evan

 

I've got a swimming badge if that counts as a qualification. My hourly rate is two milk bottle tops and a 34.6cm length of string per hour. Sometimes I think I'm pricing myself out of the market though.

Hi Torrubirubi,

David from https://www.chessable.com here. I'd recommend GM Alex Colovic himself as a coach. He is a great guy, has reasonable rates, you already know the lines he recommends and what's more he also has some understanding of the Qd8 Scandi. Email me at support and I can intro.

 

Bythe way, I just started learning both the scandi book and Gm Colovic's books. Why did you stop the Scandi? I'm finally getting into it!!

 

PS. To the comment about memorisation, Chessable has plenty of tools to help you learn opening plans and structures beyond the variations, they go hand in hand.

Hi David, nice to meet you here, and thanks for the suggestion about Colovic. After reading several comments here I decided to visit a chess club and begin to play against stronger players and get the games analysed in the post-morten. In this chess club there is also a stronger IM who give chess lessons. and perhaps I will give a try with him. 

I paused the Scandi for different reasons. I think the opening is ok as any other. The problem was that I had the impression the White player could play rather intuitively against it and get playable positions. I think I need something that give me more from the time I invested in learning the opening. I will perhaps begin learning the Sicilian by Leitão. But who knows, perhaps in some months I come to the conclusion that the Scandi is the right thing for me. 

I know a grandmaster.

I went to his chess club once a week for 3 months.

He does OTB at his club and on-line coaching, German or English.

I seen him doing it at his club and watched once here on chess.com with I think Skype for voice.

I said hi to him in the chat during his lesson, I had not seen him for a few years, I said well done, he had just come 3rd, I think, in this years Thailand open, about 20-30 grandmasters played.

Send him a private message, rates on his profile, very reasonable.

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i have a swimming certificate

Hey torru I just want to give you a helpful advice. In my opinion you shouldn't learn the different opening repertoires by heart because any GM has played them. Try to find the middlegame - position you feel yourself the most comfortable. These positions are much easier to handle. So, when you know that you can beat your opponent better in a closed position, then you got an idea which variations of an opening you shouldn't know. It is better to understand what's the idea of an opening than to know just the moves of the common variations. Greatings from Belgium.