FM Mihailo Djokic

Hello! My name is Mihailo Djokic from Serbia. I am 22 years old and have been playing chess since I was four years old, with serious training starting at the age of twelve. I use these many years of experience as my main tool for helping my students improve. Feel free to message me any time if you are interested.

I started playing chess seriously When I was 14 years old and nowadays I am trying to achieve my best and potential IM or GM title as well.

I have taught chess for three years and have successfully succeeded with my students. For example, one of my best students, Efi Rosenborg, went from a 1500 rating to almost 2100 in just 6 months of working with me. I have also worked with several players from the US and some have even won over-the-board tournaments in the USCF rating system. I feel immense pride and joy seeing my students make remarkable progress!

I played football for 6 years among with chess, also big fan of tennis

1. Opening theory: (Reti, Sicilian Defence, French Defence, Kings Indian, Different gambits, depending on your style of playing with strategy and tactical ideas)

2. Tactics: All checkmate motives separated based on levels, specifical puzzles for your level

3. Principles in endgames: (King activity, why is it important? Key focus for specific once, Rook and Queen endgames, general principles)

4. Middlegame: From basic to advanced strategy, motives covered in games

5. Analyzing games and fixing mistakes (Showing you what should you play, Psychological factors, time control, personal advice/experience)

6. Identifying students' style of playing ( Positional or aggressive), and helping them find opening repertoire based on that.

7. Endgames technique ( Specific endgames explained and more seriously studied to increase your endgame knowledge and success.

8. Chessbase files: Aditional homework you can study after lessons to secure your knowledge in the long-term

9. Homework based on things we worked on to keep you in control of your improvement

10. Long-term plan for your improvement for students after three months of lessons

Lesson 1: Analyze two games played against students as white and black, focusing on identifying mistakes, missing tactics, making strategic decisions, and assessing tactical calculations. See if there are better alternatives.

Lessons 2 and 3: Begin to work with students on the fundamentals of openings. Identify the student's style, suggest an appropriate opening, and explain the strategy behind the move.

Lessons 4 and 5: Further explore the opening with strategic suggestions and explain the general principles behind them.

Lessons 6 and 7: Introduce the basics of strategy, starting with simple positions that require the student to recognize the strategic idea within 1-3 moves, and working up to more complex positions that require 3-5 moves. Assess the student's level to determine the difficulty of the exercises.

Lesson 8: Every 7-8 lessons I analyze student games and follow improvement over these lessons, trying to identify things I did not before so we can compensate for missing stuff from before, which is very important for long-term improvement.

Lesson 9: Beginning of the endgame stuff: General discussion about endgames, going through examples and reviewing them.

Lesson 10: Playing with the students again but this time analyzing things deeper because we already had some experience working together so we can share our thoughts during games and discuss things we already worked on.

Between Lessons: You will get specific material that is up to your free material strategy to manage to work on chess, tactical material strategy and opening stuff, and general advice which I create in meantime between our lessons.

Whether you want to beat your neighbor or achieve a master's level, I'm here to help. Message me any time to get started. I look forward to helping you become a better player!

Contact: here or mihailodjokic541@gmail.com