I'll share my knowledge and experience if...

... You're motivated and serious.

As in:

_ You'll do the exercises I'll give you to do in due time

_ You'll be interactive with respect and pertinence

_ You participate in real life chess competitions OTB or will do so

What I promise:

I'll turn you into a good enough chess competitor (1600-1800) within some months.

It's free of charge, but I'll dump you swiftly if you mess with me or my requirements too much.

I'll take ONE pupil only.

En français or in English.

I'm an amateur prize winner with nearly 40 years experience and countless trophies and titles.

Well ok, you're doing two mistakes here:

1°) Letting me know you don't really need my help is a turn down.

2°) Posting all of that here in public instead of doing it by PM is, at best, clumsy, at worst a disregard.

I wish you luck with your endeavour.

Good for you, help yourself then.

Why? Because you do believe so naïvely that all it takes to get above 2200 is to play long enough?

And then, do you understand what "amateur" means?

Last but not least: have you got any idea what it takes for time and energy to conduct simultaneously a family life, a professional life and a sports career?

Kiddo.

And so you get a glimpse of what you're missing by your insolence, here a fun question:

You play a tournament OTB where you have to play 20 moves in 1 hour, and then will get an extra hour to finish the game.

You play your 20th move, then press on the clock, but as you're doing so, the clock reaches 0.00 (or if it's a mechanical clock, the "flag" falls).

You opponent claims for a win. You don't agree since you played the 20 required moves. What will the arbiter say?

Childish reasoning.

I do notice I was right about you: you did not reply the question.

That's because you're full of yourself, and there is, therefore, no room for what I've got to share.

A post for posterity. Years from now ...

Loosen up dude. Just kids with a lot of confidence and even more to say.

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You are right. I beat him after 3 years of playing, so considering he has 40 years of experience he is 13 times slower in improving than me. So if you want advice on improving, I'd suggest you ask me not him.

I'm better than you and don't study Chess at all, I just play a few online games and OTB games every couple months. Stop being so arrogant. It's not a sports career. Maintaining your current Chess level requires no effort, improving does. And these people here want to improve. That's an effort you probably don't know a lot about anymore and that's perfectly fine as long as you don't attack people for it.

Humility is the only way to teach and learn correctly. You are drowning in pride because you once put the effort in and now that's everything you're good at and it's embarassing.

Es ist nicht recht so zu sprechen wegen ein einige spiel. In 40 jahre habe ich auch andere sache gelernt, so wie English, Deutsch und Russische. Aber auch noch kochen and viele andere sache. So a***loch geh nuch zu hölle. Ein einzige spiel bedeutet doch gar nicht.

Beside, yes sure compare nowadays with the engines and the Internet play with the 80s-90s when all we had was books, magazines and weak chess computers. Depending on where one lived, it could be a hardship to play only 50 games in a whole year against rated players. So, no, you're not "better than me". Would you have play back in that time, you, not studying at all, would be about 1300 just like any other lazy chess player.