Chess with Victoria N.

Victoria is personable, intelligent and highly competent. She analyzed three of my recent games from chess.com and explained how I could have avoided blundering pieces. I am still a beginner, but I do have some experience playing. Victoria found just the right difficulty level problems for me - challenging, but not impossible. Looking forward to learning chess from her!

I have been working with and learning from Victoria for several lessons now and am very impressed. I want to highlight a few things in particular: First, she is an excellent, high-rated chess player internationally - and it is clear she continues to play and study seriously. She has been a chess champion, including rapid chess champion, at national and international levels both overseas and in the United States. However, she adapts very well to the level of her student - for example, I am pretty much a beginner, and it is working very well. She prepares for all of her lessons ahead of time, and has provided extra examples and homework, which are very well adapted to my needs. At the lesson, she has clearly looked at some of my weekly games on Lichess and chess.com, sometimes annotating ahead of time, and reviews the relevant strategies during our lessons. It's really very impressive. Personality-wise, Victoria is patient, giving time to "see" and figure out solutions to any problems presented. When she is actively teaching, she gives lots of good ideas fairly rapidly and the lesson time is used very efficiently. Victoria has a very direct teaching style (which I appreciate), while still having a gentle/kind approach, with a sense of humour. Not only does this work well for me, but I could also see her teaching style working very well for children and for adolescents of any level and ability. I feel fortunate to work with Victoria and feel she is a great addition to the TakeLessons community. I recommend her highly without any reservation.

Amazing, 100% recommend.