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Chess Coach: The Motivation to Move Forward.

Here I've found a very sound article about a journey of a Chess Coach, I quoted from the wholesalechess.com website. Specially dedicated to those who are trying to find some motivation to become a full timer as a Chess Coach. Good Luck! Chess Coach . . . The Beginning of the Journey July 19, 2010 Tags:  Teaching Chess Articles Written by guest author Erik Czerwin for Wholesale Chess. So you’ve been named Chess Team Coach. Awesome! Right?! Or was that a dubious move? It seemed like such a great idea at first, but now what? When I first started achess club at the school, it was easy. All I had to do was ask, and I was allowed to let a bunch of kids hang out, play chess, and listen to bad techno. We had fun that first year;  I never knew that 90s techno could strike such a chord  with such a diverse group of kids. Then again, there were only ten of them. And we weren’t a team; we were just a bunch of guys hanging out. And just when I started thinking...