18 year Chess expert, instructing strategy, creativity and innovation through chess and puzzles.

He is adept at breaking down your thinking style and habits that may prevent you from understanding chess concepts, and helps you reconstruct them in ways that benefit you in life. He doesn’t just give you answers, but walks you through making connections to lasting understanding, not just memorization; and then, helps reinforce that through various repetition mechanisms. He gently sets a standard of excellence for you, and then helps you achieve it.

He is a very tenacious and intelligent player who has great knowledge of the board and is very whimsical as well while playing, showing his confidence in his chess ability. He used a random opening that I had never seen before, and he still won the game. He is a great opponent, and I definitely look forward to facing him again when I’m more skilled.

If you’re looking for a skilled and down to earth chess teacher, look no further than Maximus. He’s a close personal friend of mine and he’s shown me a thing or two when it comes to the game of chess.

Maximus is a proven strong player more than capable of teaching players at a sub 2000 level! My study sessions with him have been phenomenal.