Training (Problems)

by Kevin, Friday, May 13, 2005, 21:53 (7281 days ago) @ Paul

? Hi everyone - but this is mostly an idea for the moderator....
?
? I agree with Ian that US$70 per month for 6 months is quite a financial
? commitment when you don't know exactly what you are going to get for your
? money. However, from the coaches points of view, asking for some free
? analyses is also perhaps asking a bit much. How would you feel if 20+
? students asked for their 'free' analyses. There's a weeks work there for
? potentially no financial gain. We all have to earn a living and I don't
? expect any professional chess player to happily give away his work for
? free.
?
? The Training Director says that the coaches will be 'operating to a
? standard set by us', what is that standard? How does the Training Director
? know that a coach has attained that standard? Who decides which coach is
? paired up with which student and how do they do this?
?
? It seems reasonable to assume that all the coaches must have analysed
? games for students before, so how about each coach having a couple of
? analysed games on the site somewhere? They could be any games that they
? have copyright permissions for - even their own. They will no doubt
? already have suitable analyses on file. Perhaps just a note as to the
? level of player that their analysis was aimed at would be useful.
?
? We, the students, will see in advance what we are getting and know that it
? will be at the right level for us. The coach will have lost nothing as they
? will have done no extra work. In fact they may gain more students if their
? analyses are particularly good.
?
? What does everynoe else think????
?
? Paul

I completely agree. I rejected the coaching option out of hand because of the reasons outlined by others, but I would be willing to reconsider it if sample analysis for a player of about my rating were given.