One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Dr. Madara will be happy to arrange your first Chess lesson.
Dr. Madara
One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Dr. Madara will be happy to arrange your first Chess lesson.
- Hourly rate £37
- Response Time 2h
- Number of students 50+
£37/hr
- Chess
Doctor of Psychology and Master candidate in chess based in London, UK offers online lessons for kids and adults
Lesson location
- Online
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at your home or in a public place : will travel up to 20 km from London
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Dr. Madara will be happy to arrange your first Chess lesson.
About Dr. Madara
I have 30 year of experience playing chess, I am a candidate master of Latvia, with an international (FIDE) rating of 2063, and the English Chess Federation (ECF) rating of 2115 in Classical/slow chess, which is a decent level. My recent best achievement is 1st place in London Classic Women and Girls Rapidplay 2019. I have qualified for UK Women's Blitz Championships all 4 times I participated (in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023), and came 2nd in the Finals 2018 and 3rd in the Finals 2019. I came 3rd in ECF Women’s Norm Event 2022. I am currently still an active player representing Lewisham Chess Club in London League.
I graduated from Riga Chess School (which I attended from 1993 to 2009) and am holding a professional education degree in Chess. I was teaching chess to primary school children and tutored some adults back in Latvia for many years, and I enjoyed it very much. Since 2016 I have been tutoring many children and adults in London, UK, and online, and helped them to progress in chess, and some of them gained good achievements in chess tournaments and were qualified for the next competitions (e.g. Gigafinal, London Junior Chess Championships). I am an organiser of SE London Grand Prix London Junior Chess Championships Qualifiers in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
I can teach basic concepts, moves, strategies, and tactics for beginners and help to improve the game technique of intermediate and advanced players, suggesting the theory and winning game plans, training thinking ahead and calculation skills, and many more.
About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
***Available weekday afternoon/ evening and weekend slots for regular lessons are:
Monday 4 pm,
Tuesday 4.30 pm and 7 pm,
Saturday 1 pm, 4 pm and 6 pm,
Sunday 3 pm***
My approach is student-centered, I am teaching both children and adults. I am patient, friendly, and understanding and try to make sure that the student feels comfortable and enjoys the lesson, and gains confidence in the game. I am also organising chess tournaments for my young chess students to monitor their progress and plan future curricula. Currently, I am conducting only online lessons via skype/zoom and lichess chess platform. If you are willing to take face-to-face lessons, I recommend contacting chess tutor Jude - you can search for him here on Superprof.
Review
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Perfect! Friendly, had good explanation
Perfect! Very calm and clear in her instructions
Perfect! Great first lesson. Straight into the heart of chess and strategies to make my games immediately better. Looking forward to getting on to Chess.com tonight to see how I fare and look at increasing my score. Going to get some thoughts around work I can do between lessons to enhance my games too and looking forward to booking the next lesson. Thanks!
Perfect! Brilliant. Had my son engaged all the time. My son ended the class full of energy and wishing to play more and more
Perfect! Madara is very nice and patient. My daughter enjoyed her class a lot and has acquired new chess skills.
Perfect! Madara is very patient, kind and has a wonderful approach with children. My 8-year-old is looking forward to every lesson with her and started improving very fast. I recommend her with both hands!
Perfect! My 5 year old looks forward to every chess class with Madara. She is very patient and has the rare ability of simplifying complex things and making it fun!
Perfect! Madara is a wonderful Chess teacher!!! She is patient, kind and very good at teaching at my level.
Perfect! Madara tutors my 10 year old son chess and he is absolutely loving his lessons. She is so patient and really engages with him and he learns so much. Thoroughly recommend !
Excellent! Great first lesson. My tech platform could improve
Perfect! Madara is a great teacher. My 5 years old niece has loved her chess classes with her. I totally recommend her
Excellent! Our child enjoys the learning and Madara has been very patience and kind to the child. We really like her to come.
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Recommendations
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Madara helped me with my statistical analyses for my thesis and I honestly wish I would have found her sooner. She is so calm and kind which really put me at ease. My analyses were quite complex (several mixed factorial analyses with a lot of variables) and she seemed to understand it so easily and was therefore able to help me make sense of it too. She doesn't just understand the basics of statistics but clearly is very good with more advanced and complex statistics too. If you're struggling or would just like some reassurance that you're on the right path then I would highly recommend her, it is so worth the investment. Thank you!
Madara is an amazing chess tutor. She has taught all three of my children who continue to excel in chess. She is patient and children love her.
Madara is a very passionate and professional chess tutor and a very strong chess player herself. She is very good and patient with young kids helping to unlock their potential and rapidly progress in chess. She has a vast experience tutoring kids and adults over the past 7 years, and would strongly recommend her as a chess teacher.
Madara is a Psychologist & also a highly skilled internationally recognised woman chess player/coach & experienced chess tutor who can quickly determine the level & the ability of the student. Then she uses her teaching techniques effectively to meet the student's requirements to make them understand & succeed in their chess career.
Congratulations to her for coaching students who had been performing outstandingly well during the current Mega finals & Giga finals chess tournaments.Madara is a very experienced & highly qualified tutor who put in a lot of effort & care to guide her students to pass. Every day, she is there before the lesson starts, very reliable. I recommend her being the best psychology tutor, soon to be the best on Superprof.
Thanks.She taught me some simple tactics which helped a lot to improve my game. Madara has a great knowledge about chess openings, middle games and endings. She is very helpful and patient teacher.
I am very lucky to have met Madara, while I needed help with SPSS. She was very responsive and helpful! Nothing was too much for her, she was always here to help and explain. I have managed to finish my thesis on time and the SPSS part was amazing! I would like to thank you and wish you a good luck!
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Rates
Hourly rate
- £37
Pack prices
- 5h: £175
- 10h: £300
online
- £37/h
Details
I am not offering the "first lesson" for free. As my availability is quite limited with very few free slots, I am looking for serious chess students, who would like to take at least a 5 to 10-lesson course. Chess is a very complex game and you would need to invest time and effort to see an improvement and succeed.
Lessons are booked in advance via the Superprof booking system. You can request the time slot or I can add a time slot and it will require your confirmation. If you would like to have more lessons, you can buy a 5 or 10-lesson pack and the fee per h will be lower. I follow the 24-hour cancellation policy - you will still be charged for lessons that are canceled less than 24 hours before the planned time. Thank you.
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