Chess Tutoring, Chess Coaching, Chess Classes with NM Will Stewart

  When you teach your child to play chess, you’re giving them valuable tools that they can use in life. They can relate the lessons learned over the board to what is going on around them.I like to give a lot of real life analogies throughout my lessons. It makes teaching fun! There are many ways to do this, and I have shared my most successful analogies in my book, Chess Is Child’s Play. Real [...]

  Can one teach a child to play chess while they’re still in diapers? Children can learn chess very early, some as early as two years old! The key is to teach them at the correct speed for them. It will vary from child to child, so the educator must be alert to the subtle indicators that a child is ready to continue on to the next subject. It is important not to thrust all [...]

Mikhail Botvinnik led the Soviet School of Chess for decades in the early 20th center, developing a brilliant method of chess training that revolutionized the approach to improvement in chess. Botvinnik was a 3-time World Chess Champion (1948–57, 1958–60, 1961–63) with a Ph.D and distinguished career in electrical engineering. Botvinnik was also a pioneer in the field of human chess, and in the 1950s and 1960s he developed an algorithm that enabled a computer to [...]

Yuri Drozdovskij is a Ukranian Chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2614. He is renown for his rapid chess skills, having won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tying for first at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Cup 2008 where he finished ahead of the chess super heavyweights Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruslan Ponomariov, and Boris Gelfand. Drozdovskij also had an exceptional performance in 2007, tying for 1st place at the very strong Cappelle-la-Grande [...]

A very frequent mistake at the beginner level is to bust out an openings book and dedicate precious chess-studying time and energy to the memorization of ridiculously specific continuations.  It’s great that you want to spend more time studying chess, but keep in mind that some training material should be emphasized more than others.  Evaluating and refining your approach to the study of the game can drastically improve your performance at the chess board, and [...]

Amateur Brilliancy Prize Contest – Over $1,000 in Prizes!! OnlineChessLessons.NET simply couldn’t exist without the support of our viewers. To show our gratitude to our fans, we decided to organize a huge contest and give away a bunch of expensive stuff – including chess books, videos, classes, and more.  All you have to do is send me a PGN of your own favorite game and a paragraph explaining why your game is so brilliant. The game must [...]

ChessVibes launched in early 2007 and has quickly risen in popularity to be one of the biggest chess news websites in the world, establishing a reputation of quality and quantity with excellent daily articles about chess. ChessVibes offers an interesting perspective on the concept of chess news, providing a different take from opinionated journalists Peter Doggers, Thomas Richter, Arne Moll, and others. ChessVibes does a great job of presenting behind-the-scenes info with tongue-in-cheek analysis, resulting [...]