FM Aleksandar Randjelovic

- Full-time professional chess coach
- 22 years in chess coaching
- Fluent in English
- Own programme (proven successful)
- HW after each session
- Free daily games with students
- Understanding, not memorizing
- Only teaching what you can't do alone
- Extremelly successful with beginners
- Coach of many national champions
- Structural approach
- More then 200 satisfied students

Education:
- MA degree in PHILOSOPHY

Best results (in individual competition):

- 1st: Yugoslav Youth Chess Champ. (1998)
- 3rd: European Youth Chess Champ. (1999)
- 1st: Serbian Youth Blitz Champ. (1999)
- 1st: Niš Open Tournament (2000)
- 2nd: Yugoslav Youth Chess Champ. (1997)

While still fully dedicated to playing chess, not coaching (I was about 17), I was asked to teach younger chess players, mainly beginners and intermediate players. We had camps for kids where I would join as a chess instructor among other titled players and coaches. Soon after I was asked to teach a young girl in individual lessons; she managed to win gold and silver medals on national championships of Serbia (and Yugoslavia) three years in a row while I was her coach. Those were my first steps in professional chess coaching.

Nine years later, I started teaching chess on the Internet. In the first two years of coaching online, I managed to develop a professional chess coaching program, suitable for players of various needs and understanding of the chess game. Although every student has a unique style, specific needs, way of thinking and (mis)understanding of chess, the program I created during the years of chess coaching proven to be quite accurate and successful.

Most of my students have made a significant progress and won many trophies. Among my most successful students is even a super-talented American young player - Carissa Yip (whom I coached only for a shorter time).

Nowadays, some of my program-lessons are being used by local chess coaches who teach kids in elementary schools.

- Philosophy teacher (high school)

- Chess content creator (Youtube)

- Author (chess articles)

PS: My brother also teaches chess. He is a professional coach too, but since his rating is 2105, he charges only 20 EUR for 60 minutes. Since I share my training program with him, it would also be worth considering to take lessons from him. If you are interested, his lichess.org profile is: @markomk

OPENINGS:
- King's indian defense
- Nimzo-indian defense
- Bogo-indian defense
- Queen's gambit accepted
- Queen's gambit declined
- Benoni & Czech Benoni
- Dutch defense
- Colle-Zuckertort System
- French defense
- Sicilian, Accelerated Dragon
- King's indian attack

MIDDLEGAME STRATEGIES:
- Positional elements
- Evaluation
- Finding a plan
- Defining the weaknesses
- Getting to know what matters
- Candidate moves
- Calculation & Visualization

ENDGAMES:
- Basic Pawn Endgames
- Minor Pieces Endgames
- Basic Rook Endgames
- Basic Queen Endgames

NOT NECESSARILY CHESS-RELATED:
- experience in teaching kids
- fluent in English

Before the lesson I want to:
- see some of your recent games,
- get to know your goals and expectations,
- know your chess biography,
- find out how serious you are with studying chess.

During the lesson I insist on:
- understanding, not memorizing!
- calculating, without moving pieces!
- ideas, not just moves!
- things only a coach can help with!

After the lesson, I strongly suggest to:
- check the lesson documents!
- analyse your own games!
- do the homework!
- play correspondence games against me!