Hi! A special welcome to adult beginners and juniors!

WHAT I DO:

My first ever Chessable course, ‘Learn to Counterattack: Essential Guide to Active Defence’, has been published! https://www.chessable.com/learn-to-counterattack-essential-guide-to-active-defense/course/214228/ Thank you to WIM Natasha Regan, NI Matt Ball and the Chessable team. So grateful!
Also, the second one Castling in Chess; When, Where and Why is available from June 2025!

I run individual regular or one-off guidance lessons to help you to progress in chess.
I run lessons via Zoom and screen sharing.
Check out my website https://dagnechess.co.uk/ for more information on how I can help you to improve.

HOW I CAN HELP YOU:

I can point out what you need to improve urgently to play chess better now.
To give you a quick overview of what it is important to cover in chess to progress.
To explain chess strategy.
To check if your calculation skills are up to the standard.
To answer any chess-related questions.
To give you a structure of what a chess player needs to work on and point out chess tools and materials to achieve that.
To analyse your games.

ABOUT ME:

My name is Dagne. I am the International Master with one Grandmaster norm as well as the Woman Grandmaster.
My peak ELO rating - 2450.
I have played professionally and taught chess for 35+ years.
I have participated in 8 Women's Chess Olympiads as well as European Women's Chess Championships.
A gold medalist on the 1st board at the European Women's Chess Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden.
A qualifier of the last 16 players at the Women's World Chess Championship 2001.
A champion of the Interzonal (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) Chess Tournament, a qualifier to the Women's Candidates tournament.
4 times Lithuanian Women's Chess Champion.
The winner of many prizes in various chess tournaments.
I have a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Vilnius University (Lithuania).

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