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Can you be a Lichess Coach without a FIDE official title??
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I guess you can, if you're are a good player and have some experience and expertise in teaching and playing chess.

Although a titled player is preferred
Imho, anyone (be it lower rated players or titled players) should be allowed to coach, because they might know good theories and principles about the game that they themselves aren't able to execute in their own games which prevents them from having a better rating, but that still doesn't mean they can't teach people and make them better players, like, just think of people who coached Magnus, not all of them were able to become World Champions, but they still could help.
I think lichess only allows titled players in order to maintain a certain level of trust and guarantee of quality. As all titled players are aslo verified by name.
@CreativeThinking That's true. But I don't think Lichess would allow that. If you'd see most of the preffered/prominent coaches are titled and most of the others are really strong/high rated.
@DEEPAK_11 Before, Lichess used to allow non-titled players, but after they changed that rule the non-titled coaches were allowed to stay on the site coaching, which is why you might find a few

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