GM Ante Saric

I am Ante Saric (39 years), GM from Split (Croatia). My elo rating is 2508 (career high 2600). Besides online chess lessons, I am also interested to play in foreign leagues. Feel free to contact me: antesaric@windowslive.com

I won 4 Mitropa cups with Croatian national team. I was best board at Mitropa cups in 3 occasions. I won many open and closed international tournaments. I was Croatian team champion 5 consecutive times (member of winning team). Most successful year in my career so far was 2015. That year I was vicechampion of Croatia. In January of 2016. I reached elo rating 2600.

I am grandmaster, licensed FIDE trainer with more then 20 years of coaching experience. I was second to Ante Brkic when he was third on World U12 championship (Oropesa del mar 2000.) I trained Jadranko Plenca who was one of the Croatian most talented players. Six years ago he was second on European championship U18 (Mamaia 2017.) I colaborated with grandmasters: Ivan Saric, Ante Brkic, Ognjen Cvitan, Sasa Martinovic...Many of my students were champions of Croatia in youth categories: Jadranko Plenca, Mario Muskardin, Zrinka Deur Saric, Borna Cotic, Mato Mican, Ivano Mocic... FM Nils Richter was German U18 champion (2021.), Matija Sakic was 4 time Swedish youth champion. I also had success as a coach of female players. I trained Kristina Saric, Zrinka Deur Saric, Ana Berke... My wife Kristina Saric was champion of Croatia (Zagreb 2017) under my guidance.

My professional skills are exclusively related to chess.

I am very good as a second/coach for the players between 2100-2300. My specialty is preparation for the game. First, I am looking for weaknesses of opponent player. Later I am trying to show my student how to take advantage of these weaknesses.

When I have new student: first, together we analize deeply his games in the last few years. After I discover his flaws/weaknesses, I am trying to fix it on the long run. I often use literature of the famous chess autors: Dvoretsky, Capablanca, Aagard, Delchev, Baburin, Yusupov... depend what is the theme of training (opening,middlegame, tactics...).