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i remember former rhp player, sintubin mentioned that he had taken classes with the former chess champion, Max Euwe.

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Originally posted by Mephisto2
that must be Alexander Baburin (he is often guest speaker at Chessfm) ?
thats the guy

I'm impressed that you managed to guess

take you much research or just know?

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Originally posted by benkoboy
I want to know if anyone has a very high ranked chess teacher. I have a very high ranked chess teacher... last time I checked he was rated 100th in the country overall. He has beaten Gms and he has beaten the guy from Searching For Bobby Fischer... I was wondering if your chess teacher is a IM or any other highly ranked title. I was also wondering if anyone ...[text shortened]... s teacher has a cool chess story like beating a great player or anything like that.

~benkoboy
I learn through my mistakes.

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Originally posted by villa68
thats the guy

I'm impressed that you managed to guess

take you much research or just know?
Just know (by accident): from the chessfm sessions during the Amber tournament three weeks ago, where he was a guest commentor, I remember him speaking about being the only 2500+ player in Ireland.

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Wow...you people are so lucky to have someone to coach and guide you. The teachers in my school barely know anything about chess...🙁

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Well I play for a club and some of the players in the mens team are rated 2200+ (FIDE ELO). Some of them have beaten IMs and GMs.

They have some stories like how One GM lost not to the player but the National coach's laptop, cos they prepared it beforehand by checking the GMs games from the laptop Database.

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Originally posted by Vasana
Well I play for a club and some of the players in the mens team are rated 2200+ (FIDE ELO). Some of them have beaten IMs and GMs.

They have some stories like how One GM lost not to the player but the National coach's laptop, cos they prepared it beforehand by checking the GMs games from the laptop Database.
Another question I had in mind: Do clubs help you become better?

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Originally posted by benkoboy
Another question I had in mind: Do clubs help you become better?
definitely, clubs are better than the internet I think.

ps whoever mentioned Baburin, he gave me a few lessons a couple of years ago but it was via the internet so it didn't work so well, mostly nasty endgames, and going through games I had played. Very helpful!

Example:
Bab: what were you thinking when you made that move?

me: errr umm like I dunno

Bab: well, try to think, try to remember and then when you do remember, don't ever think like that again.

Hilarious!

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Originally posted by benkoboy
I want to know if anyone has a very high ranked chess teacher. I have a very high ranked chess teacher... last time I checked he was rated 100th in the country overall. He has beaten Gms and he has beaten the guy from Searching For Bobby Fischer... I was wondering if your chess teacher is a IM or any other highly ranked title. I was also wondering if anyone ...[text shortened]... s teacher has a cool chess story like beating a great player or anything like that.

~benkoboy
In Michigan we have IM Ben Finegold. He's rated 2600+
🙂

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Nice, my teacher is tied for 96 on the top 100 overall in the U.S.A yours is tied for 27.