I took a series of private lessons with Jeff, and I write this testimonial with enthusiasm. Jeff’s teaching style allows for the immediate opening of a window into the compelling intricacies of chess. A unique intelligence is displayed through Jeff’s capacity to observe how your mind is working, link it with the mechanisms of his own, then accelerate the broadening of your vision toward the complexity of what is possible on a chess board.
While Jeff’s approach is focused and organized, it is also gentle and casual. He quickly determines his student’s attributes and builds upon them, illustrating the abundance of angles from which one can view chess strategy. In this way, he recruits a natural stream of excitement from the student—not only through the modalities of calculation, but also through the thrilling recognition of the profusion of outcomes in a chess game, its applications to the adventures of life itself, and the wonder that this all elicits.
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-Annie T. (Dec '19)
I would like to play well enough to give my 13 year old grandson a decent game. The chess sites online are set up as tutorials. In other words, I’m memorizing what they say without actually playing, I really needed the interactive experience, I needed a Chess Coach! So far, I’ve had 5 lessons with Coach Jeff. We play a game and then he goes over all the moves with me. Jeff reinforces better moves for me with “pro tips”and lets me know when my moves are the right ones too. I’m looking forward to playing my grandson again!!!
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-Linda Y. (April '20)