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Columbus Chess LessonsLessons for advanced students |
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The CoachesAlan Casden - Central Ohio
Alan is the program director and a coach at CCL. He has been playing tournament chess since he was a teenager. When in high school, he was ranked amongst the top 25 high school players in the country. While in college, he became a published chess author. Since coming to Ohio, he has won many of the major city championships. Most of his adult life he has had a chess Masters rating. He has over 20 years experience running chess clubs and he has been giving chess lessons for over 25 years. His current focus with chess is directed toward improving the skills of the next generation of chess players. In addition to giving a limited number of private lessons, he teaches chess at Granville Schools, and at the Ohio Contemporary Chinese School.
John Stopa - Central Ohio
above (Life Master John Stopa about to start a tournament game) John Stopa, age 59, is a U.S. Chess Federation Life Master. His tournament victories include:
John Bath - Central Ohio
above (Life Master John Bath is explaining a move) John has been at the center of the chess scene in Columbus for over 30 years. Some of John's achievements include: National Master 1987 (highest rating 2229)
John Hughes - Central Ohio
above (winning the North American Youth) John has been involved in CCL from before the very beginning and knows all of our methods of instruction, having helped to develop many of them. He is now passing down this method of success to other students in CCL. John has had great success in scholastic chess, including the following: Will be representing the United States in the 2011 World Youth Championship in Brazil
Walker Griggs - Mount Vernon
above (Walker explaining something while one of his students looks on) Walker is 15 years old and a national master. He has been playing chess since he was 12 and is a rapidly improving player. Walker has won many Ohio tournaments (including the Adult state championship!) and has often been teased about winning so much money. Highlights include:
FM Hans Multhopp - Cincinnati
(above is Hans playing blitz with Joe and Ryan) Hans has been playing chess all of his life, and played in his first tournament (the Baltimore Open) in 1969. He moved to Cincinnati in 1972 and has become one of the dominant players there, winning the Cincinnati Chess Championship four times. He is a USCF Life Master, a Fide Master, and has taught chess for thirty years. He has played chess in many major tournaments, including the prestigious Aeroflot Open in Moscow. Hans is fascinated by chess creativity in all its many aspects and enthusiastically communicates this joy. Goran's Group Goran's Group provides our Internet based chess lessons. This incredibly nice and talented group of international chess stars include: IM Goran Vojinovic, IM Atanas Kizov, and WGM Jovana Vojinovic. They all speak English well. IM Goran Vojinovic
With great pride I would like to report that IM Goran Vojinovic and his team have joined the staff at CCL. Goran's honesty, sense of personal integrity, and high level of coaching experience make him a welcome addition. All private students will have an over-the-board coach as their primary instructor, while Internet lessons with Goran's group will be used to supplement these lessons. While visiting Ohio, Goran has won every major Ohio tournament that he has competed in, which includes: Columbus Open, Cardinal Open (twice) and Gem City Open. The addition of Goran to our group helps to assure the development of our students to the very highest level. Please read the description of Goran, taken from Infinia Chess.
International Master, Goran Vojinovic has fifteen years of chess coaching. In addition to a successful career in coaching, he plays professional chess in tournaments in many countries around the world and has realized 2 grandmaster norms. He gives chess lectures, has written for chess magazines, and is an online chess commentator for live relays of International Chess Tournaments and Captain of his local chess team. Goran tells us, “My daughters come first in my life, and I am equally proud of both. Chess is my passion. I love teaching others to play chess. Chess enables you to meet interesting people from all over the world. There is no language barrier in a game of chess. Chess is a universal language spoken over the board.”
Atanas is an IM from Macedonia who also has one of his GM norms. Atanas is the former Macedonia National Champion. He is an accomplished chess player who is also well known for his his theoretical base and his theoretical knowledge of the openings. He is an extremely hard worker who has a very professional approach to chess. I have received many personal and strong GM recommendations on Atanas of which some of these GM's use him as their second when they compete in matches. His deep understanding of chess is well respected in chess circles. Below is a short recent sample from the list of many accomplishments that he has sent me. 2006: Member of Macedonian chess Team at the Chess Olympiad in Turin,Italy
WGM Jovana Vojinovic
What a coup for our program to get a Woman's Grandmaster on staff. Being only 19 years old herself, Jovana's current focus on chess is directed toward her own world title aspirations. Still, she is willing to work with a couple of our talented young females as she has so much to share with them. A few of Jovana's accomplishments include: - European rapid champion ( 30 mins per game ) , U 10 and U 14 |
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