CM Alexandre Aumont

Stop what you are doing right now and go take a look at my studies at the bottom of the page !

Now we can talk. Hello, I'm 30 and I'm a professional chess teacher for 7 years (alexandrechecs.com).

My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother was a teacher, my mother was a teacher and my father is also a teacher. I started giving chess lessons as a volunteer at the age of 15, so passing on my knowledge is definitely a vocation for me !
Beyond chess, I am passionate and very curious about the world around me, especially when it comes to history, politics, literature, and I love to share my enthusiasm and my knowledge with my students.

I taught chess to hundred if not a few thousand kids in schools and chess clubs.
One of my student had a national podium (2nd place) in French U08.
I trained two students for Europe and World Youth Championship (U08 & U10).
I helped many players to do the journey from 1000 to 2000 elo.

Since I never had a coach myself, I had to become my own professor in order to keep moving forward. I dove deep into the chess litterature to get that precious knowledge that I am willing to share with you !

As a result, I grew up with the champions of the past, and I am particularly thrilled by the strategic masterpieces of Capablanca, Karpov, Rubinstein etc.
Did I mention I love chess history as well ?

I can teach chess in french and in english aswell, and some of my students from abroad take advantage of the sessions to improve their french !

Eventually, I'm a lot about chess data and using analysis, technology to improve my own games and my teaching approach, although you'll hear me a lot dwelling on good ol'times

First thing first, I like to take the time to get to know my student. Since I'm working on a solid long-term comprehension and progression, I want to know who you are and what brings you here. We all have different paths and I need to understand your story to help you the best I can. So I will usually ask you some questions or even call you to get your background.

Also, I'm gonna ask you to send me your most interesting games so that I can better understand your "chess personality".
Although I must say nowadays a deep dive into your Lichess.org or Chess.com profile gives me a lot of useful informations. And if you allow me to access your "Chess insights"...

Overall, I would say I have a rather classical method of teaching.

The lesson is usually split in two parts :
- I will first come back on some interesting moments that happened in your 10, 15 last games (better in rapid than blitz for obvious reasons). My main objective here is to spot bad habits (recurring motives), and to cut it at its roots. It's also a good way to do some easy and fast opening improvement for more advanced players.
- Then it's time for the fundamentals learning (tactical tools, checkmate patterns, strategy, and endgame).

As I always do a review of the most interesting online moments you will have from a week to another, I tend to come back on every OTB game my student would play, so you are kindly (to say the least) encouraged to create a study with all the OTB games you would play !

And obviously, everything we work on together, I will put it online via the lichess studies.
There is no magic formula. Strong fondations first, if you wanna go further !