Chess coaches vs......... Inproving by ourselves?

Here, we have alot of chess coaches,

Who help us to learn chess faster, and easier.

But, what about being self-taught?

What about improving by ourselves independently?

What about learning chess by ourselves?

This dosent seem to be faster and easier, but, being self-taught may help u learn something never discovered in chess, but what do u prefer?

They may improve

I'll predict u will improve right at 15th april

At the lowest levels, players would do better to look at their own games because the mistakes are obvious, even to a beginner. Once one gets past the game-losing errors, then perhaps a coach might help. Also on chess.com many experienced players will help if you put your games online. They give excellent advice, tailored toward the beginner.

Coaching is too expensive.

Dear Shaan,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck for your chess games!

Thanks... Sir

their is no way to improve ourselves.Every one need a chess coach

Lol, and it looks like you've played maybe 10 games on this account.

My Games,1901 .Kerala state level player.I started this game at 4 years.But i was not interested to chess that times.I got interest in 5 years when I saw GM Vishy winning many games

Not necessarily true  I never had a chess coach. Lost the first 100- games I ever played. never had a lesson.

Now   have a rating over 2500.

However almost all players would benefit from a chess coach. Most would greatly benefit from a chess coach.

I will tdll you my view as a player first and then from a coach's view.

Player: when I started I was pretty bad, like everyone else. I always made the same mistakes. Fortunately I realized that I need good opponents in order to see how decent chess is played. I joined a club and went on to lose every single game for the next 12 months against players rated between 1350 and 2050fide After each game i analysed with my opponents and let them explain me my mistakes.

After playing my first rated tournament I received a first elo rating: appr. 1500.

The following years I did it less extensivly and gained about 500 points until now.

And now from the perspective of a coach:

Most players between 0 and 800 blunder pieces in 1 move. I usually focus on changing their mind-set. First they need to look at their pieces and at their opponents' pieces. This usually doesn't take much time and the pupil starts improving. The next step is explaining principles (occupy the center when you are given the chance), principles of different tactics, endgames, openings etc. 

While analyzing my students' games I add some additional elements (like exchanging pieces: good bishop vs bad bishop). With this approach my students reach 1200 pretty fast. The only thing they need to do is following advises and workalone too.

That's such a vague and weird statement lmaoo