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LifestyleGamingChess

Chess: From 0 to OK!

Learn chess from scratch!
Rating: 4.8 out of 54.8 (79 ratings)
4,083 students
Created by Javier Gil
Last updated 11/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • A complete knowledge of the fundamentals of chess and a solid background to keep improving. You'll beat most of your friends!

Requirements

  • We're starting from scratch, so as long as you have a device where you can watch the videos, you don't need anything else!

Description

This is a chess course for beginners created by an International Master (Elo rating 2445) and FIDE titled Professional Chess Trainer. Over 3.5 hours of High Quality lectures, awesome graphics, online quizzes, lesson recaps, state of the art non intrusive captions, never heard before cool Australian-Spanish accent (grin) and much more.  Haven't enrolled yet? what are you waiting for!

Who this course is for:

  • People who are completely new to chess or know very little and want to learn the fundamentals from a professional coach

Instructor

Javier Gil
I.M. and Professional Chess Coach
Javier Gil
  • 4.8 Instructor Rating
  • 79 Reviews
  • 4,083 Students
  • 1 Course

International Master Javier is a professional Chess coach and titled FIDE Trainer who's been teaching chess for more than 20 years. 

FIDE Rating:+2445. Lichess Blitz Rating: +2500  ICC Blitz rating: +2700

Javier is a dual (Spanish/Australian) citizen. 

Here are some of his career highlights as a player:

 1984 World Junior Championship, Kiljava, Finland

 1985 World Junior Championship, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

 1986 World Junior Championship, Gausdal, Norway (17th place)

 1985 Australian Blitz Champion, Toowwoonba, Australia

 1986 Asian Junior Championship, Manila, Philipines (3rd place)

 1990 Earned International Master Title

 1992 Shared third place in Spanish Championship

 2005 Earned FIDE Trainer title

Javier has also won the following tournaments: 

 Doeberl Cup (Australia)

 Sydney Junior championship (twice)

 New South Wales Junior Championship (twice)

 City of Sydney Champion (twice)

 New South Wales Championship

 Australian Junior Championship (2nd place)

 Champion of the city of Huesca (both blitz and STC)

 City of Zaragoza (Saragosse, blitz and STC, several times)

 Champion of Aragon (both blitz and STC, several times)

 1st place in the 8th Benasque Open

 3rd place in the Spanish Championship

 and winner of other less prestigous events

Javier has taught people of all ages and levels, from Children as young as 4 and 5, at kindergarten, to seniors over 75, and he's enjoyed the job just as much. 
Here are some of the places He's taught at: 
- Sydney Academy of Chess (Sydney's most prestigous chess teaching center)
- Private and public schools all over Sydney, amongst them some of the most prestigous schools in New South Wales: Kincoppal, Ascham, Sydney International Grammar, St. Aloysisus College, Sydney Boys High School, Barker College, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Trinity Grammar School, Redlands Crenmore, etc.
- ONCE (Blind people organisation in Spain). 

Javier runs two chess coaching sites and has just created a new youtube channel. 


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