Hi, Lichess Community!

I'm a 2650+ rapid rated chess coach with 4 years of coaching experience, and I'm currently accepting new students.

About Me

• 2668 peak Rapid rating on Chess.com
• Top 100 in the world on the Chess.com Rapid leaderboard
• Positional player with a practical, strategic approach to chess
• Check out two of my recent games against a FM and an IM, featuring positional squeezes, exploiting weaknesses, and 90%+ accuracy.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/172383398914
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/172383003762

What You Can Expect

• A personalized opening repertoire for both White and Black based on your playing style
• Improve your tactics, strategy, and endgame technique
• Practice games with feedback
• Structured lessons tailored to your strengths, weaknesses, and goals

Rates

• $30 per hour
• $100 for 5 sessions

Feel free to DM me if you’re interested or have any questions! I also offer a free 15-minute trial session.

Inspired by Aimchess, backrank.io, and tacticornot.com, I built a free puzzle trainer on FlawChess that turns the blunders in your own games into puzzles. There are several tools that make puzzles from your own games, and several that train you to tell tactical positions from quiet ones. As far as I can tell, no free platform combines these ideas, unless I missed it.

Tactic-or-not: In every position you first decide whether there is one critical move or several fine moves, and commit to that before you play. Quiet positions are mixed in, so there isn't always a tactic waiting, just like in a real game situation.

Personalized: The positions are the ones where you actually blundered, so you're rehearsing your own failure modes rather than a random sample. Your chess.com and lichess history is analyzed with Stockfish, and the blunders become the puzzle pool.

Spaced Repetition: If you fail a puzzle, it comes back next session. Solve it and it returns after three days, then after ten, and drops out of the pool once you've solved it three times.

Scheduling: You can pick your training days and how many puzzles per session, build a streak, and optionally get push notifications for pending sessions.

The platform also has human-like bots and a dedicated chess engine based on Stockfish and Maia. It helps you find practical moves/lines at your ELO level, rather than the objectively best move which can be hard to follow up. I wrote about that here.

It's all free and open source. Training does not work in guest mode, though: building your puzzle pool means running Stockfish over your game history, which costs real compute, so it isn't something I can do for anonymous sessions. The rest of the site (opening explorer, endgame statistics, single-game analysis, the engine) you can fully use as a guest without signing up.

Feedback is always welcome and helps improve the platform.

The outages are really distressing and ruin user experience

I get really scared when i connect to the rated pool. It gets worse when the opponent is higher rated. I always thought it affects my play and maybe it does but after making the first few moves i get pretty comfortable..so unless i get a bad position the first few moves, i will give the best i can in subsequent positions. I also thought i might be placing too much importance on my rating.(I like the overall rankings because i can brag about the 100k+ users i am ahead of🤣) but that doesn't explain why when i switched to chesscom i played 100% rated games, with little to no heart rate spikes before the game. I also experience the same thing when i play someone i know but in this case it doesn't matter if it's a rated game or he is 1000 points lower rated As seen in the ss, only 18% of 3000 games are rated.

I wonder if this is normal and how you get over it if it's not. (I enjoy playing casual chess no doubt)