Private lessons on Zoom
One or two 1:1 lessons a week, built around what you need next: openings, tactics, endgames, game analysis, and the mental side of the game. Reschedule up to 24 hours ahead at no cost.
2, 4 or 8 lessons a month
Membership · chess lessons, beginner to intermediate
Weekly chess lessons, and everything that happens between them.
Private 1:1 lessons on Zoom for children and adults, as a simple monthly membership. And because what you do between lessons decides how fast you improve, it includes your own student portal: a recap of every lesson, a weekly plan, and practice built from your own games.
2, 4 or 8 lessons a month · Billed monthly, cancel anytime · English & Spanish
What's included
Lessons with a coach, and a plan for the rest of the week.
Every lesson plan comes with three things that work together.
Your student portal
Where the work between lessons happens: lesson recaps, a weekly plan, puzzles from your own mistakes, and tools to train how you think. Log in with Lichess or Google, on any device.
Every day, at your paceUpdates for families
A recap after each lesson and a monthly report by email: lessons attended, topics covered, practice and rating progress. Parents always know what their child is working on.
After each lesson and monthly
In the lessons
Lessons structured around what you actually need next.
Every lesson covers real chess, and pays attention to how you're playing it, not just what you're playing.
Chess for beginners
For students who are new to the game or shaky on the fundamentals. Piece movement, basic rules, elementary tactics, and how to read a board — taught at a pace that builds real understanding, not memorized moves.
Improvement & intermediate training
For players who know the rules and want to actually get better. Opening principles with real reasoning behind them, tactical pattern recognition, positional understanding, and a plan for the plateau you're currently stuck on.
Children's chess lessons
Real chess content, paced for a young player's attention and development. Concentration, patience, and a healthy relationship with losing are built alongside the game itself — not as an afterthought.
Game analysis
Bring a game you played — win or lose. We go through it together: what happened on the board, what you were thinking (or feeling) at the key moments, and what to take from it.
Tournament preparation
Practical preparation for competitive play — opening repertoire choices, time management, pre-game routine, and how to reset between rounds after a difficult result.
Ongoing 1:1 coaching
A standing weekly or biweekly slot built around a development plan specific to you, revisited regularly as your game and your goals change.
Inside the student portal
Everything you need to practice the right thing between lessons.
No endless random puzzles. Each tool is connected to what we work on in class, to your own games, or to the way you think under pressure.
A recap of every lesson
After each class you get the key ideas, the thinking habits we worked on, your task for the week and puzzles on the same topic. By email and saved in your portal, so nothing is forgotten.
After every lessonPuzzles from your own mistakes
Every week, a chess engine reviews your games on Lichess and Chess.com and picks the moments where there was a much better move. You get them back as puzzles: find what you missed, so it doesn't happen again.
Every MondayA short weekly plan
A few focused tasks for the week, based on your recent games and what we covered in class. Tick them off as you go and watch the bar fill up.
Every weekA quick review before class
The day before your lesson you get three puzzles on last week's topic, so you arrive with the idea fresh and we can build on it instead of starting over.
The day before each lessonPattern trainer
Short training sessions with real puzzles from Lichess, adapted to your level: tactics, board vision and the patterns you need to recognize in a second.
Whenever you have 10 minutesPosition coach
Look at a position, write your plan in your own words and get feedback on your reasoning, not only on the move. It trains the way you think, which is what transfers to your games.
AnytimePost-game journal
After a game, note how you felt and what happened. If you're on a losing streak, the portal suggests a pause before the next game, because tilt costs more rating points than any opening.
After your gamesYour progress, visible
Concepts you've learned and practiced, training days, rating on Lichess. Progress in chess is slow and easy to miss. Here you can see it.
Always up to dateLessons, reminders & history
Your upcoming lessons, reminders by email when you want them, and every past recap in one place, organized by topic.
AlwaysSmart review
Every position you miss comes back after 1, 3, 7 and 21 days until you master it. It's the same spaced-repetition method memory experts use, applied to chess patterns.
A few minutes a dayYour openings report
How you actually score with each opening, as White and as Black, from your games on Lichess and Chess.com. See what works for you and what to study next.
Updated weeklyAchievements & streaks
Streaks, puzzle milestones, mistakes fixed, rating gains. They count everything you do on Lichess, Chess.com and in the portal, so playing online counts too.
Updated daily
For parents
Know what your child is learning, every month.
Many of my students are children, and the person paying for lessons is rarely the one sitting at the board. So families are part of the process:
- A monthly report by email: lessons attended, the topics we covered, how much they practiced and how their online rating moved.
- Lesson recaps you can read too, with the task for the week.
- A personal note from me when there's something worth telling you.
How it works
A first lesson, then a plan built around you.
A level check and a first lesson
Before we meet you answer a couple of questions and solve ten puzzles that adapt to you. In the first lesson we look at real positions together, so everything after it is built for you.
A plan built around you
Openings, tactics, endgames and the mental patterns worth your attention, sequenced sensibly and adjusted as your game and your goals change.
Weekly lessons, practice in between
Lessons on Zoom with the board shared live on Lichess or Chess.com, in English or Spanish. After each one, your recap, task and practice are waiting in the portal.
Plans
Choose your rhythm.
Every plan includes the full student portal. The more lessons, the less each one costs: on Weekly the portal is practically free. Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Prices in US dollars.
Training
The portal on its own, no lessons.
- Weekly plan and puzzles from your own games
- Smart review, openings report, achievements
- Pattern trainer and position coach
$19/ month
Start training
Starter
A lesson every other week.
- 2 private lessons a month on Zoom
- Recap after each lesson, review before the next
- Monthly report for families
- Everything in Training
$79/ month
Choose Starter
Most popular
Weekly
Steady, weekly coaching.
- 4 private lessons a month on Zoom
- Recaps, reviews and monthly report
- Missed a lesson? Get one of your games analyzed instead
- Everything in Training
$139/ month
Choose Weekly
Intensive
Faster progress or tournament prep.
- 8 private lessons a month on Zoom
- Tournament prep and an opening repertoire
- Missed lessons become game analyses
- Everything in Weekly
$259/ month
Choose Intensive
| What's included | Training | Starter | Weekly | Intensive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private lessons on Zoom, per month | — | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Pattern trainer, "My mistakes" puzzles, weekly plan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Position coach, post-game journal, progress | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart review, openings report, achievements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your Lichess and Chess.com games included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Level check before you start | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recap after every lesson + review before the next | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monthly report for families | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unused lesson → one of your games analyzed by Andrea | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tournament prep and opening repertoire in lessons | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Price per month | $19 | $79 | $139 | $259 |
| Price per lesson | — | $39.50 | $34.75 | $32.38 |
Not sure yet? Book a single trial lesson for $35 (without the portal) and decide after.
No surprises: billed monthly, cancel anytime before your next billing date. Reschedule a lesson up to 24 hours ahead at no cost.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Lichess account?
Lessons use Lichess, so it's best to have a free account. You can also log in with Google. If you prefer to play on Chess.com, add your username too: your Chess.com games count for the weekly mistakes, the openings report, your streaks and achievements.
Do I have to log in every day for my practice to count?
No. Your activity on Lichess and Chess.com is picked up automatically every day, so playing and solving puzzles there counts toward your streaks, achievements and the monthly report, even if you don't open the portal.
Is the student portal included?
Yes. Every plan includes the full portal at no extra cost, and you get access from day one. Only the single trial lesson comes without it.
Can I use the portal without lessons?
Yes. The Training plan gives you the portal on its own for $19 a month, and you can move to a lesson plan whenever you're ready.
Does it work for children?
Yes. Many of my students are children. The portal is simple to use, and parents get the monthly report and the lesson recaps.
What level is it for?
From complete beginners to intermediate players. Puzzles and plans adapt to your level, and the level check before the first lesson makes sure we start in the right place.
Is it in English or Spanish?
Both. You choose the language, and lesson recaps arrive in your language.
Can I change plans?
Yes. You can move up or down between plans from one month to the next. Just tell me before your next billing date.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel before your next billing date. Lessons can be rescheduled up to 24 hours ahead at no cost.
Start this week
Start with one trial lesson.
We meet once, you see how the lessons and the student portal work, and you decide after. No commitment.