I offer chess lessons to fit the needs of individual students or
groups.
LIVE CHESS LESSONS
The current rate for new students is $85/h.
Sometimes students come to Lexington for day or more. In this
case I am able to give discounts. If somebody takes 8 hours of
instruction a day it costs him/her $600. I also travel with chess
lessons. In this case rates depend on the amount of travel involved.
CHESS LESSONS OVER THE PHONE OR INTERNET
I have students from all over United States
and gave already several lessons to people living overseas. Both
of us connect to the internet, we have a chessboard on the screen
and when one makes a move it instantly appears on another's screen.
It is accompanied by instruction on the phone/Skype.
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HOW DO THE CHESS LESSONS WORK?
I usually start with student's games. It is very important to find
out his or her typical mistakes. Then it's time to decide which
material to present, which problems to give, and which books to
recommend. One very important reminder: don't expect that one lesson
will solve all your problems! I definitely will help you to improve
your play, but you can't become a strong player if you'll not work
by yourself! This is where a coach's help is especially important:
to give a student a direction to work, to observe his or her chess
and psychological problems and watch carefully the student's development.
I've been studying chess for more than 30 years now, and still after
every 2-3 months I can see changes in my play. I improve one part
of my game, but suddenly something else is getting worse. For instance,
a couple years ago I started to study games of Anatoly Karpov. Very
soon I could feel that my positional understanding improved a great
deal. However, I started to overestimate meaning of general principles
and there were several games where I was punished for the lack of
a concrete approach. So, I had to work with this problem as well,
and this process never ends! The worst thing somebody can do is
to repeat the same mistakes again and again!
This year Gregory Kaidanov is teaching the
following camps:
Barrington, IL June 15-19th e-mail yushulman@yahoo.com
for more info
Tempe, AZ July
6th-10th and July 13th-17th e-mail Checkm8Chess@aol.com
for more info
St. Olaf college,
MN July 19th-24th more info at http://www.stolaf.edu/camps/chesscamp/
To
Contact Gregory Kaidanov, you can call him at 859.272.2025 or you
can email him at KAIDANOV@IGLOU.COM.
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