First two hour session absolutely free!

Looking to improve? Want to supercharge your openings, learn key middle game themes, calculation techniques and learn to grind practical endgames? Look no further!

To sign up, send me your last 20 rapid / classical games. Don't filter out games, just share your last 20 rapid/ classical games. Also do introduce yourself and let me know about your age, ambitions, and journey. Let me know everything you've done to date, how you work on chess, how much time you can realistically dedicate on a weekly basis, so on and so forth. Do also mention if you’ve plateaued and whether you’ve purchased any material. This will help me understand your weaknesses so that we can work together more effectively. We will then meet on a zoom call where I will pick out some of your games and analyse them with you in depth. Based on this analysis, I will offer you some chess advice and show you a number of chess concepts. If I find that we are a fit, and you like my teaching style, we can start lessons.

Hello everyone. This is Momin Fayzan. I've been playing for 6 years and I'm a National Master from Pakistan. I am looking for dedicated students in the 1600-2000 chess.com blitz/ rapid range.

Before anything else, let me tell you about my approach to chess. I find that at an 1600-2000 blitz/rapid level on chess.com, players lack an understanding of pawn structures. Philidor said it best “Pawns are the soul of chess.” Pawn structures not only dictate potential weaknesses but also dictate piece placement. And piece placement is, of course central to general chess strategy. Yes, tactics win most games. But putting your pieces on good squares whilst preventing your opponent from doing the same will mean that tactical opportunities are more likely to appear for you while your opponent is deprived of them. Moreover, tactics are easy to improve just by repeatedly solving puzzles. However, where I can seriously add value is by showing you how to handle specific pawn structures, how to put your pieces on the best squares, how to handle nuances in chess openings, how to identify favourable strategic scenarios, and of course how to spot critical moments where is is likely that either side has some decisive tactical shot.

Moreover, I will give weekly homework and primarily focus on game analysis during our sessions. The reason for this is that I will be providing my students with high quality material to study in their free time. However, when our lectures cover some theoretical concept rather than game analysis, I will try to present it in a way that no existing source presents it or I will present it in a more efficient manner.

In cases where a student is truly perplexed by some material, I would be more than happy to cover it within lectures. If instead, I find that at some moment in a lesson, it would be an extremely teachable moment to go over some classical game or discuss some moment in depth, I may do so.To find out my rates, please DM. My rate is open to negotiation, with potential discounts for multiple classes. Students are always free to play training games with me and I am always just a message away.

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