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Private Chess Lessons - Learn Strategy, Tactics and Problem Solving - All Levels

Completed by 26 learners
Ages 9-13
Live Group Class
Personalized 1:1 Chess Private Lessons For all skill levels. in one to one lessons, students learn strategy, tactics and essential elements of the opening, middle & endgame. Chess teaches patience, good sportsmanship and builds confidence.
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(539 reviews)
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Live video meetings
1x per week
1-3 learners per class
55 min

What's included

1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours per week

Class Experience

Chess lessons are about more than just chess. My fondest memories of my childhood revolve around chess tournaments. I played competitively in chess tournaments beginning at the age of 11 until I began running my own chess clubs as a middle school teacher. I owe the game of chess for teaching me patience, good sportsmanship and self-confidence. As a scholastic player in Florida in the 1990's I had the honor of being named Florida Elementary Chess Champion two times and hold a chess rating of approximately 1800. I love offering that same excitement that I found as a child, to the students.

Looking for an ongoing chess tournament club? I have 9 clubs scheduled throughout the week so everyone can find a day that fits their schedule. 
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Monday 4pm EST & 7pm EST
Tuesday 10am and 4pm EST
Wednesday 4pm EST
Friday 4pm and 7pm EST
Saturday 1pm EST
Sunday 1pm EST

Our chess lessons will focus on the key ingredients to a successful chess game, opening, middle and endgame strategy, essential tactics as well as checkmate patterns. Our first lessons will be all about developing an exciting and engaging plan to both improve your child's chess game as well as focus on building confidence in choosing the best move in various scenarios that tend to appear in real scholastic chess games. One thing our lessons will never be is boring. My style of teaching is designed to engage students and lead them to enjoy the process of becoming a better chess player.

All of our lessons will start of with a chess match between the student and myself. This will give me the opportunity to assess the areas that we should focus on in both this and upcoming lessons. During the game we will pause to discuss why the student chose a given move or why they think I made the move I chose. We will work together on classic checkmate patterns as well as introduce some basic tactics that we will work on in future lessons. 

Each week of our chess lessons is completely independent and the learner and stop or start the class at any time. We will focus on the elements of chess that will lead to the greatest benefit to your child's playing ability. However, the schedule below is a good representation of the topics covered in the first four weeks of the class.  

Week of 2/15:  
Topic: Forks and more forks
Skills assessment
Student vs Teacher with discussion of strategy and tactics as we play
Chess Puzzles: Forks
Chess Puzzles 1 Move Checkmates
Queen and Rook vs King Endgames
Wrap-up

Week of 2/22:  
Topic: Stalemates? Never! Winning with a Queen and Rook
Skills assessment
Student vs Teacher with discussion of strategy and tactics as we play
Chess Puzzles: Pins
Chess Puzzles 1 or 2 Move Checkmates
Queen/Rook and King vs King Endgames
Wrap-up

Week of 3/1:  
Topic: Discovered Attacks And Devious Checkmates
Skills assessment
Student vs Teacher with discussion of strategy and tactics as we play
Chess Puzzles: Discovered Attacks
Chess Puzzles 1 or 2 Move Checkmates
Wrap-up

Week of 3/8:  
Topic: Sneaky Checkmates: Back Rank Mate
Skills assessment
Student vs Teacher with discussion of strategy and tactics as we play
Chess Puzzles: Skewers and Back-Rank Checkmates
Chess Puzzles 2 Move Checkmates
Wrap-up

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Meet the teacher

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539reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Florida Teaching Certificate in Social Studies/History
Bachelor's Degree in History from University Of Central Florida
If it's tech, I teach it. As long as I can remember computers and electronics of all kind were my passion. From my first computer, a Commodore 64 with 64k RAM to my current gaming/coding laptop, I have always been enthralled by the creativity and ingenuity that technology can inspire. 

I offer a variety of private and group classes. 
Have an exciting tech project idea that I don't currently offer? Ask me and I will create it!

Private Lessons Currently Offered(Contact me for more details)
Unity and C# Game Design and C# Programming
Chess Lessons - Beginner to Intermediate
Micro:Bit Electronics and Coding
Setting Up Your 3D Printer


Curriculum Vitae
Bachelors Degree in History from The University of Central Florida
Florida Educator Certification in Technology, History, Business Ed, and Coding
17 years of experience teaching middle school students
Programmer on the Unity and MIT App Inventor Platforms
Fluent in the C# programming language

Every class I teach on Outschool is a subject that I personally care about and I try to kindle each students excitement about the potential of technology to change our world. I have been a gifted and talented and programming teacher for the past seventeen years. My 3D printers are always printing something interesting from a Ironman helmet to a giant dinosaur named Flexi-Rex. My classes are all about challenging students to test their limits and have a great time doing it. I look forward to meeting you in one of my classes soon!

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