Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 13 segments
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man there's there's there's a lot to talk about there there's so much that you you have done and like the other students have done to help me grow I would say one of the big things I'd like to talk about is like having you identify the weak parts in my game.
So to have you come here and review my game and point out what do I need to work on? That's great because then I can take that and then have a really nice focused study
session and study on that.
So, like, for example, like, one of the things that you pointed out was the Rook End Games.
Just crimes,
Over the course of, like you said, the eight months or whatever, it, like, I've been winning most of my games in the End Game now.
So you would say identifying your weaknesses by looking at your games.
Of course, we are doing different stuff in a group lesson.
I usually give you some positions from my future courses in a quiz format on Chessable Classroom.
I actively test you live and then that gives further feedback and discussions.
But then, of course, I also look at your games, let's say one game per week.
briefly of course we can't spend like two hours per student on a group lesson but just to identify the most teachable moments that once fixed that is the highest impact on you and in that way coach is useful because i can definitely point out certain things that i see for you that you can't get directly from the engine feedback and then we play simultaneous exhibitions that's also what we do right we take an instructive position usually like an end game position and i'm giving you all of my students and you tried to beat me on a simultaneous exhibitions right we did lots of those as well during the last six or seven months and yeah this beautiful stuff when all these things are coming together and then you see the impact of that of course you'll describe to us in a better depth later on when you start talking about your study routine you know because i think it's mostly you that follow a certain discipline process that leads to this improvement maybe Because, I mean, it's easy to take, you know, credit for decision success as coaches.
You know, it's all because of me and the lessons.
No, I truly believe that you, yourself, as a disciplined person, you also played so many games, by the way.
That's also something that we should talk about.
You played almost 2,000 rapid games on chess.com so far, right?
you're you're definitely a guy who also likes to play a lot so we will take on your take on on the potential reasons or the biggest impact on the improvement and i'm very happy if i even contribute slightly to your successor and that's always giving me great joy you know
man there's there's there's a lot to talk about there there's so much that you you have done and like the other students have done to help me grow I would say one of the big things I'd like to talk about is like having you identify the weak parts in my game.
So to have you come here and review my game and point out what do I need to work on? That's great because then I can take that and then have a really nice focused study
session and study on that.
So, like, for example, like, one of the things that you pointed out was the Rook End Games.
Just crimes,
Over the course of, like you said, the eight months or whatever, it, like, I've been winning most of my games in the End Game now.
So you would say identifying your weaknesses by looking at your games.
Of course, we are doing different stuff in a group lesson.
I usually give you some positions from my future courses in a quiz format on Chessable Classroom.
I actively test you live and then that gives further feedback and discussions.
But then, of course, I also look at your games, let's say one game per week.
briefly of course we can't spend like two hours per student on a group lesson but just to identify the most teachable moments that once fixed that is the highest impact on you and in that way coach is useful because i can definitely point out certain things that i see for you that you can't get directly from the engine feedback and then we play simultaneous exhibitions that's also what we do right we take an instructive position usually like an end game position and i'm giving you all of my students and you tried to beat me on a simultaneous exhibitions right we did lots of those as well during the last six or seven months and yeah this beautiful stuff when all these things are coming together and then you see the impact of that of course you'll describe to us in a better depth later on when you start talking about your study routine you know because i think it's mostly you that follow a certain discipline process that leads to this improvement maybe Because, I mean, it's easy to take, you know, credit for decision success as coaches.
You know, it's all because of me and the lessons.
No, I truly believe that you, yourself, as a disciplined person, you also played so many games, by the way.
That's also something that we should talk about.
You played almost 2,000 rapid games on chess.com so far, right?
you're you're definitely a guy who also likes to play a lot so we will take on your take on on the potential reasons or the biggest impact on the improvement and i'm very happy if i even contribute slightly to your successor and that's always giving me great joy you know
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