Chess coaches

Chess Coaches

International Master Dagne Ciuksyte playing at the chess tournament

Dagne Ciuksyte

My Chess Achievements:

  1. I started playing chess at the age of 6 (I believe you can never be too young or too old to learn!).
  2. During my professional chess career, I have achieved the titles of Woman Grandmaster  and  International Master (with one Grandmaster norm) as well as an ELO rating of 2450 at the peak time of my career.
  3. I have played for Lithuania’s and England’s Women National Team at The World Chess Olympiads and the European Team Chess Championships for more than 10 years.
  4. Now, having a family of my own, I’m concentrating on sharing the chess knowledge I gained with my students.
  5. In pre-pandemic years I was a leading coach at Cambridge Girls Chess Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/cambridge.girls.chess.initiative/
Cambridge Girls Chess Initiative
Cambridge Girls Chess Initiative. 111 likes. The Cambridge Girls Chess Initiative encourages young girls in Cambridge to take up chess.

Dagne Ciuksyte’s chess articles and blog posts:

On ChessBase News Website is here

Chess coaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
IM Dagne Ciuksyte has represented Lithuania and England in Chess Olympiads. Her peak FIDE rating was 2450. Now she coaches chess, in the shadow of COVID-19. Inspired by a ChessBase article, she is adding “chess writing” to her career. WIM ALEXEY ROOT interviews Dagne Ciuksyte.

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Chess Variants: Entertaining, fun, instructive
Classical chess is fine and fun. However, variety might add some spice to your chess life. Which is why Dagne Ciuksyte enjoys chess variants. They are fun, they are surprinsingly instructive and they help your classical chess. Here are some chess variants you might want to try.


 On Chess.com website is here

How To Win Games Quickly
Many games can be won when playing with full concentration from the first move. I share with you 10 of my shortest wins and the reasons behind it below. 1. Speedy Development From the start of the game, we try to develop our pieces. Even better if we can get it done quicker than our opponent. And ev…

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Coach Of The Month: IM Dagne Ciuksyte
IM Dagne Ciuksyte is a Lithuanian-born chess player and coach who now represents England on an international level. She has competed in some of the biggest chess tournaments in the world, including the Women’s Chess Olympiad and Women’s World Championship. In addition to her competitive playing care…

My fees are : £40 for a one-off guidance lesson. If you book 5 intensive and enriching sessions in bulk for £175 it will come as £35/an hour!

When it comes to juniors, have a look at our Online Chess Lessons page to see what we offer! My girl can help young chess players to improve to the next level. Or my boy who would not stop talking about chess to another little girl or a boy! Thinking about it, maybe it would be better to go for 30 min – long chess session with him or your child’s head would go spinning from overflow of chess information…Fun guaranteed!

 
My junior student’s trophy and medal for winning a under 12 chess rapid tournament in Hong Kong! My Hong Kong junior student became a under 12 chess champion in the rapid tournament in 2022!
My UK junior student came 3rd in Under 11 chess tournament in 2022!
My UK junior student came 2nd in Under 8 chess tournament in 2022!
Chess trophy won by my student
A Chess Trophy won by one of Dagne’s student at the chess tournament in 2022!
Chess Trophy
Golden Chess Trophy
Chess Gold Medal
Gold Chess Medal

JUNIOR CHESS COACHES

 

Sofia

I began chess at a very young age; being around chess since I was born, I started learning chess from when I was first alive.

I have had multiple experiences teaching beginners in our ‘Junior Chess Coaching’ Events and teaching individually, have learned from many strong chess players (mostly IMs), and have been to many tournaments in various places, like my sister. I have also reached high positions in many Junior tournaments; 1st, 2nd or 3rd.

I can teach your child the basic concepts of chess, tactics, strategies and chess notation/vision, and other simple chess skills. Once they have mastered a few of these, I can introduce them to chess variants; a fun way of honing some skills the game offers, or just seeing chess in a different light.

My fees are £17 for a one-hour chess coaching session.

I look forward to teaching your child soon!

 

Daniel

I started playing chess when I was four and I am very good at openings and I play on chess.com and lichess and chess kid my ratings are lichess 1700 chess.com 1100 chess kid 1300. And I teach children from 4 to 7 and my fees are £10 for an hour-long chess lesson.