Hi, I’m Matthew Shaw from Southend Chess club in Essex.

I offer very cheap online training sessions only £20 an hour.

I have been playing chess for 20 years. I used to play in OTB tournaments and have shared first prize in some intermediate level tournaments and won a few rapid play majors in London. I concentrate on coaching now. I still play competitive chess weekly in the Southend and Essex League along with Southend Club and London league. I used to also play 4NCL for both Guildford and the AMC Hippos / Rhinos ( Andrew Martin Chess ) before it became renamed to the BCM teams ( British Chess Magazine ) I run Westcliff Chess Club which is a library based chess school you can join the Facebook Group here

I enjoy coaching and currently have 3 students that actively have 1-2-1 lessons aswell as the group coaching that i do fortnightly at the library. My approach to teaching it to focus on approach to problem solving and candidate move selection. I can help anyone graded under 1600. I have been told that i explain chess in an easy to understand way which has helped players to improve there endgame play and OTB ratings. A usual lesson with me can include going over a recent game of my students to find improvements and then repeating the key positions. I also like to dedicate some time in each lesson to building up endgame knowledge. I have lots of files i can share with students FOC to help build up an opening repertoire. I also like to build up and endgame repertoire which i think is key to having repeatable knowledge that can be built upon to improve overall chess level

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