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My STORY and Lessons That Could Help you

Last Year (2020) in December, an Educational Platform, EarnPlus did an interview with me on my journey and how it came to be. Learn about Reverse Thinking and How I came to do what I do now. And Hopefully you can find some tools to help you too.  Click the LINK below to get to the interview INTERVIEW HERE   Skip to 15 minutes for the start of the interview

What's your excuse....Reposted in 2021

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  Workshop in Nov 2019, the kids who got some free lunch from Yusuf Yusuf (an amazing individual)                                                        myself when I suffered a hairline fracture in Feb 2019                                                 (I'm sure everyone knows who is the guy holding my wheelchair) What is your excuse??? (originally posted on Fb on 11th Nov 2019) I had the honour of meeting this wonderfully positive person, Idris. Yusuf was what he preferred to be called. It was at night and I was watching football with my cousin around 11pm 2 weeks ago. Yusuf called me at night to ask about joining my workshop and he told me he was wheelchair bound. Having experienced first hand how difficult it is to not be able to use my legs for a month this year, I told him that he shouldn't have a problem entering the venue but access to the toilet could be a problem because there are stairs involved. Yusuf told me that wouldn't be a problem and signed up immediatel

Video Lesson on 2 Bishops

 Oct 2019 Free Lesson on my fb page.  100 people watched it in the 2-3 days after I uploaded it on facebook. But no one else has watched it since. Such a waste. So here it is VIDEO HERE Hope you enjoy it.  Write down in the comments in one word/sentence what you learnt!

Two Rules to Guide you in any Endgame

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  You learn better by doing. This is because as Confucius said, I do, I understand. So allow my students to explain the two rules to you just I had explained in to them in this VIDEO Enjoy! This is a game where I beat a WGM using those 2 rules and my students are explaining it

How You Can Make Fun, Engaging Classes for Anything? in 3 simple steps....

  In my first post of 2021, I mentioned that I will be shifting some of the old content from my Fb page:  HERE  to the blog for ease of accessibility. Unfortunately, I can't go back to before July 2019 unless I scroll all the way.  You will get 1. a free chess lesson here  &                         2. How to Come up with a fun engaging class? Here are the 3 steps: STEP 1 What are the 3 key points you want the student to get from the class? STEP 2 Research tonnes of examples to explain those 3 key points and drill it home. You can repeat the key points a few times. STEP 3 Give autonomy and trust them Watch the video  HERE  to see step 3 in progress. I taught in this workshop 3 key points (STEP 1).  You will see the kids explain the examples using one point each (STEP 2 and 3). See how much fun they are having and learning at the same time. Check out the video here

BACK FROM THE DEAD........4 Years in the wilderness....and now I KNOW.... NOTHING

 I started this blog a few years back when I had an office job. A lot has changed since. My last post was in 2017. I have since started coaching chess. This is my facebook page:  here I had an idea of what I wanted to write about all those years ago. It was very clear and I thought I would only write about that. You could say I was naive and thought I knew everything.  Turns out I know nothing. Just that its a slightly better nothing. There are many posts written on my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ZhuoRenChessCoach/ But it is so ridiculous to search back for it. So I decided I will be putting some of them here. It makes it easier to search back and also allows it to be more accessible to you rather than having to scroll through the facebook pages. Check out the page if you are free. There are some videos of me talking there. I still prefer writing but speaking looks more real and it helps me grow. Video quality isn't the greatest. I'm not tech savvy. Just thought you