an idea is to show him your mistakes and how you learned from them. show him that everybody makes mistakes.
another suggestion could be to show a game that it very similiar to his mistake and discuss this.
Students that hate to discuss their mistakes
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I know boxing isnt chess exactly, but many coaches will give a steady stream of compliments to young fighters. Like "looking good kid, way to move" etc over and over all different kinds of ways until the kid finally realises youve been building the confidence level, and by that point its too late for them to reject it. Once they become confident, they will be asking you what the mistakes were, not waiting for you to show them.
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What is it now that it's 18 months later?
At the opposite to other skills, chess involves self esteem and ego. There is a lot of ego, determination, sacrifice and self esteem involved. Am speaking as an student. Therefore when training someone, just show him what went wrong, what principles he should follow henceforth, and eventually suggest him to learn about some particular stuffs and discuss. The student has to make more effort than the teacher to reach his level of thought process. The trainer is just the person who enables him to understand chess more.
make him point it out ... take him to the situation and ask him what he feels would be the best possible solution or make him point out the other possible solutions .. the key is to make him realize his mistake rather than point it out ... I am not a chess trainer but I teach kids other stuff .. So may be it should be of help ..
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