1. The chess trainer’s patience
Boris Zlotnik, PhD, IM Spain

2. In this photo from 1963 appears the first Soviet world champion M
In this photo from 1963 appears the first Soviet world champion M.Botvinnnik, opposite him is the future world champion A.Karpov. I also appear on this photograph.

3. Even a great talent is not always visible
Even a great talent is not always visible. It does not grow as fast as one should want it. “Unfortunately Tolya Karpov will never play well”. Botvinnik. The first success of Karpov came only in year 1969 (Youth Champion).

5. We began training with Fabiano Caruana in year 2004 when he had ELO 2180, and ended in year 2007 with ELO For a long time he did not have exceptional results. He simply did not win tournaments. Karjakin became GM when he was 12. Wesley So beat him in the sub-10 World Championship.

6. A chess trainer must have a much better patience when he works with chess players with medium chess abilities. These chess players are usually characterized by a non-exact capability of variant calculations, a weak sense of position and a bad chess memory. Even though these players may be good students in other subjects – sometimes the best students in their classes.

7. In May of this year I began working with a 12 year old girl with ELO 1618 who had studied chess for 6 years already. I devoted to her much more attention that I had devoted to Fabiano. However, the results of the first tournaments led me to despair. However, today she has increased her current ELO in 250 points and I believe that next year she will surpass ELO Now, I would like to show some examples of the evolution of her growth as a chess player.

8. Only this year Sabrina Vega (another one of my pupils, who I trained in the 1990s, and who first participated in the World tournament in 1996) became vice champion of Europe, for the first time receiving a medal in the European and World championships.