FM Ivan Stankovic

A Fide master, with INTERNATIONAL MASTER (IM) norm !!!

Experienced professional sports and personal improvement coach and chess training expert with over 25 years of knowledge-sharing and skill-development experience. Most of my students will improve their playing by applying principles, developed by the best chess minds and explained in a simple and easy-to-apply form. It is what I do: help you apply what you learn to win quickly, predictably, effectively, and consistently.       

 I work with the students according to the program of the Russian Botvinik chess school!
All my students improve their playing from 100-800 points rating.

TOP 3 fastest improvments in March 2024 after only 1 session you can find in pictures of www.chess.com/member/stankovicivan profile!

I interview new students for April 2024 and will provide an assessment of their current playing level and development plan to all who will learn with me. All levels considered. 

Schedule your interview and prove to yourself that you can do much better than now after only 1 session working with me! 

I play chess more than 25 years.
Two times champion of central Serbia under 20!!! Many silver and bronze medals on youth championships. I was member of national university team of Belgrade, and played against many eminent universities in the world (Dallas, Viena...)
Senior Winner of open "Niska banja 2017", and many other blitz and rapid tournaments in region. Many times won on national leagues. The best player on first league of central Serbia with result 8/11 in 2022 where I won international Master norm.
4 years in a row I played final tournament of the year "PLANET WIN ALL STARS", which playing the best chess players in Serbia in that year.
I am the member and player of the chess club of Krupanj which play in 1st Serbia league!

More than 15 years experience of teaching.

I work in my city with young talents, and also online. All my students improve their playing from 100-800 rating points. I have several students that won the chess titles (fm,nm,mc). Many of my young students are champions of Serbia in their ages. Every month you can find the best results from my teaching (pictures published on www.chess.com/member/stankovicivan profile)
The best students Chris Zweber, Greg Isaak Voykhansky, Nemanja Zivkovic, Yuma Akagiri, Stefan Stoiljkovic, Milan Grozdanic, Amelie Lan Jerome Lewison, Stefan Nikolic, Јan Albrecht...

I worked on local tv as chess consultant and commentator. More than 55 episode od popular sport tv show "The sky is the limit". Sometime I stream on lichess, usually simultaneous exhibitions, tournament playing, games against followers itc.

My best skills are chess tactics, and aggressive positional attacking. In high-school and college I had subject of Psihology and connect that knowledge with chess.

33% chess knowledge + 33% of physical and mental power + 33% of lucky = great chess player!

In the end, it's more important what kind of person you are, and only then what kind of player you are.
Behind this wise saying is a chess champion!

Learning process >

✔️ Building the opening repertoire(depending on your tactical and strategic capabilities) and finding opening novelties.
✔️ Finding a plan using Strategy.
✔️ Learning motifs (basic, advanced)
✔️ Endgames (Basic & Advanced)
✔️ Analyzing games and fixing mistakes (Showing you what should you play, Psychological factors...)
✔️ Develop intuition and efficiency in gameplay. Learning how to play natural chess!!!
✔️ Help students to improve time management during the game.
✔️ Staying motivated and constantly improving.

My teaching methodology is based on improving your understanding chess.
With chess understanding comes better playing, endgame evaluation , better calculation etc ...