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Online Chess Lessons Chess Strategy and Tactics! Dr. Brian McCarthy Ph.D. Teaches Chess:

The place for Chess Lessons with Master instruction!

Life Master Brian McCarthy combines Systematic Chess Study with Affordable Chess Lessons. coach.

About me: I made Senior Chess Master, the highest national title, (2400 rating) in 1992 after 10 years as a master and a few years as a Life Master. I was Tennessee's second home grown master after my fellow 1979 state high school co-champion, Senior Master Curt Jones. I began teaching in the early 1980's and have many successful students. Top 2600 Grandmasters I have beaten include Christiansen, Rohde, Kudrin, Fedorowicz, Zaichik, Wolf, Hracek and Sagalchik. The highest rated person I have beaten was 2654. Hracek was 2650 FIDE and in the top dozen of the world when I beat him. The highest rated person I have lost to was FIDE World Champion and the successor to Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov. I have taught many individual lessons as well as public and private schools and Gifted and Talented Institutes (grades K-5).

Students have won 4 national titles so far: US amateur, Denker Championship of State High School Champions, Champion of State Champions and mosr recently, US Junior under age 7!

Can you be the 5^th?

Here is an overview of my Chess Lessons We can have chessphone lessons over the Internet Chess Club and/or use the telephone, even CU-SeeMe for video and audio chess lessons. Any questions or to set up a lesson, please contact me at : BMcC333@yahoo.com

Many ask for general advice. Try http://webspace.webring.com/people/gb/bmcc333/chess_basics1.JPG for Opening advice and http://webspace.webring.com/people/gb/bmcc333/chess_basics2.JPG for the Middlegame snd Endgame.

CD-ROM with My Database (Shredder or Bookup) and My Best Games Preview Edition 20.00 or 20 ICC Chekels!! - Message Dropzone

I believe a good young chess student has plenty of time for excellence at chess and school! Us older folks can always get better!

Here is my 1^st science paper: RNA interference of IL-10 in leukemic B-1 cells.

***** My Game with Karpov: Hulk Kogan keeps Karpov's Team from first!! *****

7/05 Student takes 1 lesson and wins the US under 7 championship!!!!!

4/01 Big news!! My 1st student to reach 1st in his age group!! Many students have made the top ten and even 1 International Master, but a hard working 7 year old talent named Adityla was the 1st to reach the top of his age group! April top 50 under 8

Click here for a column covering the 1st team game Kasparov vs THE WORLD

Many have called chess a science and Edinburg, Scotland is awarding a Ph.D. in chess. If interested in science, heres a link to my lab's microarray data from a collaboration with Harvard. Antioxidant Research, Cancer cells and novel therapeutics:

See my 69' Chrysler + old Tennessee neighborhood Click here for my brother's '70 Road Runner

See the 2 links below for my pictures with World Champion Karpov and then US Women's champ courtesy Atlantic Chess News editor Ken Thomas.

Handshake with Karpov Chance of a lifetime! Very few Americans have played a World Chess Champ.

Karpov, Irina and me Then Fide Champion, US Women's champ Irina Krush and the team that put them 2nd.

Click here to see how the World "bluffed" Kasparov in the most predicted line, 30. Qf8 b4 31. h6 b3 32. Qf5+: as given by the Computer Chess Team and posted on MSN 32...e6!{Crafty/"DummyDave"/D'Ambrosio/McCarthy}e6! the unbelievable move. A great free Chess lesson in one position!

Free Sample Chess column!!: February 1999 Atlantic Chess News: Get the earliest report on The 1999 US Amateur East Teams and see a win over international star IM Maurice Ashley. The game gives a good example of our database oriented research style and what you can expect when your games undergo the same treatment. Update: 3/99: Grandmaster Ashley made the national news with his title winning performance at the Manhattan chess club. I am glad my 2 wins over Maurice this year didn't trick me into saying he wasn't GM material!

Click here for even more information about lessons Click for basic opening advice
Although I have twice finished in the top 20 of the national Grand Prix (like a money list), have a peak USCF in the 2400's, held the Grand Prix record for all people under 2400 and have games published in many places like the chess encyclopedias and informants, if you have lots of money and time, you probably will pay a Grandmaster if you want chess lessons. However, if you are looking for results in a chess teacher, chess coach, whatever you call us, I think you are in the right place now! Experienced guidance can increase anyone's rate of improvement. We teach a new way to analyze in structured chess lessons! Chess is not brain surgery. I treat chess as a complex, but not overly difficult, series of math problems. Creativity and ingenuity along with a sound understanding of the known postulates are absolute pre requisites for expertise at either. Current and former students, along with other chess masters are using a new teaching system that combines positions from the Botvinik, Russian school with the latest technology and databases. The web has accelerated chess theory and most top players carry a laptop. Many satisfied customers testify to our simple methods. You will too, if you give us a worthy effort. Let the son of a basketball coach teach you the fundamentals. I have a novelty on move 4 in Encyclopedia A and 2 more novelties in the newly revised Encyclopedia B as well as games in Informants 39 and 51 and on most CD collections like Extreme Chess. There is a recent column linked below for a sample of my analysis style, as well as a link to more wins over titled players. It should be easy to see you can practice what you preach. when choices are based on the oldest chess principles. We have distilled the most complex computer programs in accordance with the Steinitzian school of chess advocated by World Champion Lasker and demanding an idea of how you are going to win, after gaining small advantages, before attempts at decisive action are undertaken. There is much more to study and using your time wisely is vital these days.

I finished 16th in the national Novag sponsored Grand Prix in 1994and 20th in 1993. I have been the national under 2400 Champion twice with a record 110 points. That was enough grand prix points to win it all in some years, but enough about the fall of the Soviet Union's influence on chess. I understand both professional chess and scholastic chess. My Feb 97 rating is 2415, I am a Senior Life Master and have had as many as five students in the top fifty for their age group at once. Chess Lessons for children are my specialty. I encourage all levels and believe all can benefit from my simple system. The fundamentals of the game: time space and force, form the basis of my teaching system. If you are interested in lessons please e-mail. Students can take weekly, bi-weekly or monthly lessons on line, at the Internet Chess Club or person to person if we can accommodate you. The ICC has a chessphone and CuSeeme is also possible. I can teach with a board on the Internet and talk on the phone, this seems to be popular.

I am available on the internet and in person for individual and group chess lessons, school programs, game or opening analysis, along with simultaneous exhibitions and group lectures.

The database we use now contains 2.4 million sorted positions and 35,000+ GM games. Usually about 1500-2000 games for each famous GM you might think of. From Morphy to the current Kasparov/Karpov/Anand/Kramnik tournaments, this database has it sorted. A real value for your money!
My system uses the latest technology and most recent information. Scholastic players or old veterans will benefit from our constantly updated learning techniques. See my games in The Week in Chess (TWIC) # 141 games 302 and 313. Please use the link below.

Links to the Web:

Contact: BMcC333@yahoo.com

My Game with Karpov: Hulk Kogan keeps Karpov's Team from first!!

My Column in Chess Horizons

My 2 TWIC Games Annotated: Chess and the Chicago Bears

Bookup has a shareware viewer to see the database we use.
The Week in Chess: see my World Open games in 141

The World's Most Active Chess Club

Visit our Federation for information on tournaments and more Chess basics

Past News and Updates:

4/01 Adityla rockets to the highest rated 7 year old in the country in only his second top 50 list!! Anyone asking how fast can someone improve under my system need only look at Adityla's 748 rating of April 2000 when he started taking chess lessons and his 1172 in April of 2001 that tops his age group!

2/01 Adityla Naganath arrives on the top 50 list at 35th for under age 8. Since he just turned 7, he will have plenty of time to improve on 35th. Congratulations! ( top 50 lists at www.uschess.org)

9/99 Tommy makes the top dozen for his age, 31 points ahead of the talented son of IM Kaufman.

8/98 Tommy Bartell is the 1998 NJ High School Co-Champion as a freshman!

7/97: I finished the World Open with a 6-3 score, losing only to former soviet GM (@2630) Serper and beating former Soviet GM (2614) Gennadi Zaichik with black and the next round a 2589 originally from the Phillipines, IM Sevillano. This set up my first "Simulcast" game on the Internet Chess Club (ICC) live coverage (the Serper game), en route to a $ 3000.00 payday! Both wins have incorrect endings in "The Week in Chess #141", but with my scoresheets they did a good job getting to the end. My 4th queen of the day sacrificed herself for the finale and a provisionally rated day of 3002. If you are new to tourneys, a provisional rating is your opponents rating + or - 400 points on a win or loss and you get their rating to average on a draw. The highest USCF ratings ever achieved is Bobby Fischer's 2814.

In the last round, with black, I drew former Moscow youth champion, USCF 2600 player, US Junior Champ and current Samford scholarship ($30,000.00) winner Boris Kreiman. I repeated last year's successful American vs former Soviet battle; GM Alex Shabalov vs GM Mike Rohde! Perhaps Grandmaster Rohde could have won my position, he beat Shabalov. I ended up holding a pawn down rook and pawn ending for an extra $2000.00. Due to the nature of the prize fund a draw won as much money as a win. I am glad rook and pawn endings are a frequent part of our lessons. See my annotations of the two TWIC games above.

6/97 : We have two students in the top ten for their age in the latest rating supplement! Tommy Bartell, age 14 and Vikram Premkumar (Vik on ICC) age 11. They both play for Jack Collin's scholastic teams. Jack was Bobby Fischer's first teacher and the chess teacher with the greatest ability to influence children in a positive direction. Money won't buy you onto a Collins Kids team. Only certain ratings based on age are eligible. Every Collins Kid earned their way onto the team. They represent America in events in Iceland among other places.

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