IM Vaso Blesic

I am international master from Serbia Vaso Blesic with current ELO 2396, max ELO was 2426. I am 35 years old man with pharmaceutical degree on Belgrade University. I am also fide chess instructor, but I believe then I am better coach, then many chess FIDE trainers.
Sometimes I had very bad coaches when I was a kid, and slowly improved my chess skill, and after that mostly improved when I was studying alone, mostly from russian chess books.
You can contact me via email: vaso.blesic@gmail.com
Skype: Vasilije Blesic
or best by telephone viber or whats up: 381 63 472 895

I have more then 30 years chess experience in chess competitions, I took first place in many tournaments because I am good fighter and I am good in chess psychology. For example I took twice in row Amateur Belgrade championship, twice was first in Ada tournament (summer international chess tournament in Belgrade), Usce tournament, Summer open... I also played in many club championship in Serbia, and Bosna and Hercegovina. Last international master norm I took on Gibraltar open when I drew 2 games with Super >2700 GMs (Nakamura was one of them)

I started to work like teacher about 20 years ago, and I work more like sparing partner than teacher. I worked with many students around the globe. I worked with some players who won a medal on European youth chess championship. I worked with 10-20 players who won national championship in their age group.
Usually I made a lot of progress with my young students, I also make some progress with adults (but not so rapidly).
I am coach for some of greatest talent in Serbia and Turkey.
My best student is girl who has the best ELO in Serbia under 18, and she is just 12.5 years old, for 1.5 year she improve her ELO around 400 points, became WFM and won Serbian Women Semifinal Championship. She won European Rapid Championship U12, and share first place in Blitz European Championship.
For best results we need some time, some positive things happen right away, but for bigger results, you need to be more patient. Dvoretsky sad that after 6 month student can see most of benefits from his/her new coach.
I am not so strict and generally have great relationships with my students.

I speak English language. I understand Polish and Russian too, I can speak but I am not fluent in those 2 languages. I love to swim and play volleyball and basketball. Now I am learning Turkish too, maybe one day I will try to learn another language.

I played almost all openings especially in my training games and know almost all type of positions, and I always try to improve my repertoire. When I am learning younger players I love to create sharper repertoire, and love to include some new variations from time to time.
For me tactics is very important especially for beginners, and you can not become good player if you do not calculate well.
Endgame is also very important, how many times you lost your edge in the endgame, maybe sometimes even lost some wining endgame, and it is the easiest part of the game.
Sometimes you do not know to play, you do not have any kind of the idea, maybe you need improve your strategical play.
I can improve your weaknesses, or maybe improve your best sides to be even better.
I do not disturb my students with so many rules, but I more love when they acquire from practice and training.

For student it is the best to send me some of their games, I am preparing lessons from the books, chess base or from mine or my students practice. When I am teaching, I prefer using lichess studies with skype audio, but sometimes it can be on some other platform or only sharing my screen on skype, and analyzing with my students. If student want I can give him homework from varies topics (I think that this is the best), but it is optional.