FM Jack Puccini

I'm FM Jack Puccini from Australia and I'm 24 years old. My hobbies include sports such as football, sprinting and futsal as well as music composition and language learning. My teaching philosophy is grounded on the idea that chess development does not occur through collecting knowledge, but rather through acquiring skills. For coaching enquires please email me at jackpuccinichess@gmail.com

For more details about myself and my coaching, please check out my website: jackpuccinichess.com

I started playing chess when I was 8 years old, and have since represented my country in multiple international events including U16 Olympiads and Junior World Championships. I'm also a former Australian Blitz Champion.

I have taught hundreds of students ever since I started teaching chess over 8 years ago, in both 1-on-1 and group settings. I have experience working with students over long periods of time to foster their chess development, which has led to some winning state championship titles.

I have previously given several chess lectures on topics ranging from attacking chess to psychology in chess, as well as more recently streaming instructive chess content on my twitch channel to many people. I also have experience as a chess commentator, commentating on events ranging from friendly matches to international tournaments.

I believe that my biggest strength as a chess coach are the training methods that I have developed after years of thinking and experimenting that I would share with my students - from methods to more easily memorize opening lines and theoretical endgames, to improving your tactical vision. A sample of such methods can be seen on my YouTube channel - FM Jack Puccini Chess. I also have an abundance of chess resources, from opening files on various openings to self-collated endgame material to calculation-based training positions.

Improving at chess is hard, especially as one reaches a more advanced level. Hence, if one wishes to improve they most likely will have to devote a fair amount of time to studying individually. This is why I believe the primary role of a coach should be to help the student help themselves. This firstly involves analysing the student's games to determine weaknesses that the student themselves cannot perceive, followed by providing content during lessons and homework to address such weaknesses. Of course, working with the student to build a reliable and sustainable opening repertoire is also a key goal, with the time being devoted to this depending on the student's current chess ability and level of ambition.