Teacher Seb
Nationality: 🇫🇷French🇫🇷
Peak FFE rapid Rating: 2040
Peak FIDE Rating: 1897
Sébastien is a 33-year-old chess teacher. He’s a 3 times team high school French champion, and he’s been teaching chess to kids for over 10 years.
Teaching kids is just too much fun!
Spoken languages: French🇫🇷, English🇬🇧
Teacher Paul (FM Poompong)
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rating: 2127
Chess achievements:
- Awarded the FIDE Master (FM) title in 2014 which is the 3rd highest player-title level by the World Chess Federation (FIDE)
- Thailand Junior Champions from 2006-2008 & 2010
- Thailand Team Champions in 2009 & 2015
- Gold medalist Thailand University Games in 2011, 2015 & 2017
- Thailand Bughouse Champion in 2020
- Drew with GM Nigel Short and GM Jan Gustafsson
- And many others….
Chess trainer achievements:
- Trained the national junior team for the World Youth 2010 at Halkidiki, Greece
- Trained the Chiang Mai junior team for the World Schools 2015 at Pattaya, Thailand
- Trained several individuals who represented the World Chess Olympiad from 2012 to 2018
- Team captain of the Asian Online Nations Cup 2020
Happy Pawn makes happy moves
Spoken languages: English🇬🇧, Thai🇹🇭, Laotian🇱🇦
Teacher Palm
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rating: 1610
A 26-year-old Thai chess teacher. Palm has been playing chess for many years and also teaches in some school chess clubs. He can teach in both Thai and English. He is one of the players of the Siam Dragon chess team. He finished in the top tier in some chess tournaments, such as…
– Champion, KMITL Board Game Championship 2017 (Chess category)
– 2nd Runner-up, RMUTT Games (Thailand University Game 45th, 2 male player chess team category)
– 1st Runner-Up Double Bishop October Rapid 2019 (Open)
– 1st Runner-Up Big Rook – Back to Chess 2020 (Standard Chess, U1600)
And many more in his career.
“Hardworking or talented? Hardworking is a talent itself.” – Garry Kasparov
Everyone has power. Let’s work together to master yours.
Spoken languages: Thai🇹🇭, English🇬🇧
Teacher Louis
Nationality: 🇫🇷French🇫🇷
Peak FIDE Rating: 1782
He’s a 27-year-old University teacher and also a part-time chess teacher.
He started playing chess when he was 6 years old and participated in a club and individual tournaments.
Achievements: 7th at high-school France championship, won several short cadence tournaments, club team league province champion
“You can get more use out of one lost game than from 100 won games” – Capablanca
Consistency and perseverance are the keys to success
Spoken languages: French🇫🇷, English🇬🇧
Teacher Rajesh
Nationality: 🇮🇳Indian🇮🇳
Peak FIDE Rating: 1866
Rajesh is a 23-year-old Indian part-time chess teacher whose currently doing BBA.
He has played and won multiple chess tournaments in both India and UAE.
He also has been training beginners and competitive-rated players for the past 2 years.
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolf Spielmann
Spoken languages: English🇬🇧, Tamil🇮🇳, Malayalam🇮🇳
Teacher AJ
Nationality: 🇺🇸American🇺🇸
Aj is a 31-year-old English teacher and avid chess player. He has been playing chess for 20 years and teaching in Thailand for 5 years.
Peak Lichess ratings:
Bullet: 1950
Blitz: 1671
Rapid: 1708
Spoken languages: English🇬🇧
Teacher Annie
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rating: 1733
Annie is a tournament player and chess teacher. Her achievements:
1. National Player for Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017
2. Silver medalist in Thailand University Games in 2013, 2014
Chess is fun!
Spoken languages: Thai🇹🇭, English🇬🇧
Teacher Nick
Nationality: 🇷🇺Russian🇷🇺
Peak FIDE Rating: 1985
Russian Chess achievements:
- Champion of Novorossiysk City 2020
- Vice Champion of Kuban Region 2019
- 1st Runner-Up 2nd Ekkamai Rapid Open 2022
- 1st Runner-Up Eastern Thailand Rapid Chess Championship 2022
- 1st Runner-Up Big Rook Chess Festival 2023
- Champion Red Knight chess club May rapid FIDE rated 2023
- 1st Runner-Up Red Knight chess club May Blitz FIDE rated 2023
- 1st Runner-Up Red Knight chess club June rapid FIDE rated 2023
- Champion Red Knight chess club June Blitz FIDE rated 2023
- 1st Runner-Up 1st The Rooky Chessmate International Championship Bangkok 2023
World Chess Achievements:
- World Chess Champion between Amateurs 2015
Online Chess Achievements:
- Arena International Master Title
Chess Trainer Achievements:
- Official FIDE Instructor
- Participant in International Coaching Seminar 2019
Nick has been teaching Chess for over 10 years and he has excellent experience as a chess player as well as a chess coach. He has a trainer teacher diploma, a teacher psychologist diploma, and an official FIDE instructor title.
Chess teaches you that just like in life, you need to create your own opportunities. Whether it be in chess or life you are in charge of creating your own opportunities and letting your skills do the talking. I will help you to develop the right skills for that.
Teacher Win
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rating: 1416
Win is a 26-year-old Data Scientist and a Thai part-time chess teacher. He has been playing chess for many years and is capable of teaching in both English and Thai. His achievements:
- Silver medalist in Thailand University Games in 2017 and 2018
- Bronze medalist in Thailand University Games in 2016
- Silver medalist in Thammasat Freshy Games 2015 (Chess category)
“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy” – Siegbert Tarrasch
Teacher Max
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rapid Rating: 1427
Peak FIDE Blitz Rating: 1423
Recent tournament history:
- Red Knight Chess Club Rapid FIDE Rated
- Big Rook Chinese New Year Rapid 2023
“A good player is always lucky” – José Raul Capablanca
Teacher Kong
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rating: 1475
Peak FIDE Blitz Rating: 1648
Chess achievements:
- Gold medalist in Thailand University Games in 2019, 2020 & 2023
- MVP Thailand University Games in 2019 (Chess category)
- 2 Bronze medalist 17th Asean+ Age Group Open Chess Championships 2016 ( Rapid & Blitz )
- Champion, Thailand U18 Qualify for 17th Asean+ Age Group Open Chess Championships 2016
- Thailand National Junior Chess Team 2007,2009 & 2016
etc.
Chess Trainer Achievements:
- Certificate in 1st Thailand Coaching Seminar by Thailand Chess Association
“Chess, it’s the struggle against the error.” – Johannes Zukertort
Teacher Amm
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Amm is a 30-year-old teacher with a Thai teaching license specializing in Early Childhood Education. She started playing chess in 2016 and has been active in social chess events.
Tournament history:
RKCC March Blitz Tournament
“Every move must have a purpose” – Bruce Pandolfini
Spoken languages: Thai🇹🇭, English🇬🇧, Chinese🇨🇳
Teacher Tao
Nationality: 🇹🇭Thai🇹🇭
Peak FIDE Rating: 1569
28-year-old network and security engineer who enjoys teaching chess part-time. Over a period of two years, He taught chess to a variety of schools and students.
He is an active and competitive chess player who is working hard to improve his understanding of Standard Chess as a player.
He’s also a chess journalist and organizer promoting chess in Thailand through news and organizing various tournaments.
He competed as a national player in the six-nation international chess competition in the 1st Ly Hout Chess Championship – 2022.
In addition, he is also a 1-dan go player who still participates in tournaments.
Spoken languages: Thai🇹🇭, English🇬🇧
Teacher Akis
Nationality: 🇬🇷Greek🇬🇷
Akis is a 48-year-old programmer. He learned chess at the age of 5. He still plays actively online. He is also active at chess clubs. After more than 40 years of accumulated chess experience, he has extensive knowledge of all phases of the game(opening, middle game, and endgame).
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
Teacher Tom
Nationality: 🇧🇪Belgian🇧🇪
Peak FIDE Rating: 2108
Tom has been studying and playing chess for more than 20 years.
He has been teaching in various international schools, but now mainly focuses on private classes. He has over 10 years of experience teaching both kids and adults.
Tom remains an active and successful competitive chess player up to this day.
Some examples of his tournament achievements include:
Vice-champion of Belgium -18 year
Shared first place in the 18th BCC Open Challenger tournament
1st runner up Pattaya Open Chess Championship 2020
I believe in gradual improvement, one step at a time. I am convinced that patience and dedication will be rewarded. Above all, I want to share my love of the game with my students and make them really enjoy the wonderful game of chess.
Spoken languages: English🇬🇧, Dutch🇳🇱, French🇫🇷, Spanish🇪🇸
Teacher Paul B
Chess Teacher and Tournament Chess Player
Nationality: 🇺🇸American🇺🇸
Peak USCF Rating: 1941
Peak FIDE Rating: 1750
Taught over 10 students.
Teaching Philosophy:
I look at each student individually and teach according to their personal needs. I emphasize practical exercises so the student can apply lessons to real chess games and see continuous improvement in results. My goals for a student are to help them become a strong chess player, but also to learn how to study chess and analyze their own games to improve themselves. I enjoy chess and as a teacher, the most important thing is that my students enjoy chess.
Spoken languages: English🇬🇧
Teacher Alex
Nationality: 🇫🇷French🇫🇷
Peak FFE Rating: 1910
Peak FIDE Rating: 1816
He’s a 32-year-old risk manager in France and also a part-time chess teacher.
He was a youth world championship contender when he was 15 as well as many french championships and was the youth champion in his region (Picardie).
He’s very familiar with the club’s system as he’s part of its design and he enjoys teaching chess to kids.
Every chess master was once a beginner 🙂
Spoken languages: French🇫🇷, English🇬🇧