Whats with all of the low rated coaches on Chess.com???

lol true

You do not have to be the very best in a sport to be an excellent coach. However, you do need to have mastered the game, IMO. Mark Dvoretsky is an IM and generally acknowledged as one of the best chess coaches in the world.

He is, however, an IM. It takes years of experience to reach that level. Plus it requires norms, not just rating points, to qualify for the title.

He himself had great chess coaches.

I think it is extremely doubtful that there are any successful tennis professionals whose coaches were themselves just mediocre players of the game.

The more I study chess and the more I believe I know about chess, the more I realize just how much more there is to learn and how much I do not know.

When i first started taking otb chess seriously, i was fortunate enough to meet a very nice man (no homo) who was at one time a 2000+ player who did nothing more than play many many friendly games with me at a local coffeeshop.  If anybody wants a 'coach' or 'teacher' all they have to do is go down to their local chess club and play some games.  If somebody there is impressed with their playing (no matter what the rating) they might have an extra set of eyes to help them every now and then.

OMG!!  You mean, the member who's FIDE rating is posted as 10,000; might be exagerrating a bit?  That's really sad.

sftac

Fibbing is one thing. Drawing in unsuspecting students based on that lie and wasting their time is a different category.

He would be a good competition against "if you know". 

@kco

Well, "you know who" can play a little (now), but in the exaggeration dept. he is hard to beat. He added about 1000 points to his strength as I recall. Gutsy!

I always thought it referred to homozygous sickle cell anemia.

ok lol have you seen his notes?? some guys spammed them!! lol

Not trying to offend him (SebLeb) but for a 13 year old his logic fails. He said that he previously had another account, both his old and current one with ratings of 1500 or something, so he's actual rating is 1500x2. LOL.

I don't really know what you're talking about http://www.chess.com/members/view/SebLeb0210. He looks like a kid and on his profile it says he's born in 2000. Is this the same SebLeb we're discussing?

Does anyone remember the movie the movie "Music Man." That's the kind of teacher some of these "coaches" are.

He has added a disclaimer and noted that his 1650 ELO rating was estimated by the chessmaniac test.

Have you not heard of time travel?

sftac

ps.  So, have we got "trouble here in River City", or not?

lol

my real rating is around 1600 but my chessmaniac rating is 2180 (LOL)

if his estimated elo on that thing is 1650 imagen what his real rating is! Asumming he actually got 1650 on his first try.

my real ratingis somwhere in the 14 hundreds (for otb) and I got 1810 on my first try...

My chessmaniac rating was 2100. My real rating is probably around 15-1600. Ouch.

I'm 2000 and I wouldn't coach people over 1700. I recommend they go with stronger players.

and he also says that he beat GM Nigel Short