About me
I am Lance, the very experienced online chess coach.
I got to know the game early and since this moment I do love chess instantly and forever. I have a passion for playing and teaching and I love both activities.
I do highly appreciate a student/coach relationship and I try to do my best for my chess students. I've also noticed that I feel more happy for my students' chess successes in comparing to mine (as a player).
Playing experience
I am the very experienced online chess player (20+ years) and 11x Lichess Marathons Champion.
Large experience of online play against the famous players including top10-100 Fide GrandMasters (more than 1000 games and not bad score overall).
This unique experience of play vs some of the best chessplayers in the world has improved myself the most as a coach and player.
Peak lichess ratings: 3000 bullet, 2801 blitz, 2815 rapid, 2622 classical.
Other experiences
I love to watch twitch. There are a lot of the great lichess streamers there.
Best skills
I do concentrate on the maximisation of the general chess understanding.
I do teach how to understand instead of how to memorize. I believe that understanding and logic (and regular practice of the new knowledge) are the most important in chess.
Teaching methodology
I review the students' games and see their weakness and strength and prepare my recommendations for their further chess improvement.
We do review the most important basics to make sure that a student is familiar with it and then we do work on the constant perfection of the student according to his current weakness and needs.
I am flexible for my students, so I can teach them anything (inside my spectrum of knowledge, skills and abilities) anytime according to the student's current preferences.
Of course I can recommend to study together something concrete as well, either according to our general plan of the student's chess improvement or according to the student's recent games or other difficulties a student might have had from doing homework or other chess activities - in order to keep the student's chess understanding maximally clear.
