IM Javier Gil

International Master Javier Gil.
I've been a full time Professional Chess Coach for more than 20 years and I have the official FIDE TRAINER title.
Dual Citizen: Australian / Spanish.
I run a chess coaching site called chess.clinic. URL: www.chess.clinic
If you'll grant me a small piece of advice regarding hiring a chess coach, these are some questions which perhaps you should be asking when hiring one:
Do they really enjoy coaching other people?
Do they have the experience to teach? because teaching is a lot more than just being able to play well... (i.e. I think Ronaldo would be a hopeless soccer coach!)
Do they spend more time and effort on their students than reasonably expected to?
Do they love chess and their work?
Have they developed training systems for their students?
Do they annotate their games?
Have they edited original files and material that they have worked on for years?
Do they offer full on-line support?
Apart from making a profit, have they contributed in any way to the chess community?
I can reply "Yes, I do" to all those questions... I'm not saying I'm the only coach who has, but when choosing one, I think you should bear those things in mind...

1984 World Junior Championship, Kiljava, Finland
1985 World Junior Championship, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
1986 World Junior Championship, Gausdal, Norway (17th place)
1985 Australian Blitz Champion, Toowwoonba, Australia
1986 Asian Junior Championship, Manila, Philipines (3rd place)
1990 Earned International Master Title
1992 Shared third place in Spanish Championship
2005 Earned FIDE TRAINER title

I've also won the following tournaments:

Doeberl Cup (Australia) (=first)
Sydney Junior championship (twice)
New South Wales Junior Championship (twice)
City of Sydney Champion (twice)
New South Wales Championship
Australian Junior Championship (2nd place)
Champion of the city of Huesca (both blitz and STC)
City of Zaragoza (Saragosse, blitz and STC, several times)
Champion of Aragon (both blitz and STC, several times)
1st place in the 8th Benasque Open
3rd place in the Spanish Championship
and winner of other less prestigous events

Over 20 years teaching experience. I've taught people of all ages and levels, from Children as young as 4 and 5, at kindergarten, to seniors over 75, and I enjoyed the job just as much.
Here are some of the places I've taught it:
- Sydney Academy of Chess (Sydney's most prestigous chess teaching center)
- Private and public schools all over Sydney, amongst them some of the most prestigous schools in New South Wales: Kincoppal, Ascham, Sydney International Grammar, St. Aloysisus College, Sydney Boys High School, Barker College, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Trinity Grammar School, Redlands Crenmore, etc.
- ONCE (Blind people organisation in Spain).
- Online coach for two decades. www.chess.clinic
- Published a FREE electronic book for beginners: "Learn chess or call me an idiot".

This is a somewhat narcissistic task, but If I had to highlight one out of the 9 forms of intelligence which I'm probably good at, it must be interpersonal: I empathize with my students, their goals and ambitions. This makes it easier for me to adapt my lessons to their level: I'm not there to show them how well I can play, but to make sure they learn what they need to.
Another thing my students rate very highly is the amount of time I spend on them: game annotations, study materials, off-line advice and guidance, and so on.

This is what you get when you hire me:
- Live lessons
- Exclusive Online Quizzes to measure how well you're learning
- Exclusive Recap videos for most of our lessons.
- Your own private forum where coach + student communicate directly (nobody else has access to it) and where I keep a lesson log of every lesson that we do.
- Answers to all your chess questions.
- Annotated games,
- Homework files for every single lesson that we do. (these are completely original files)