FM Dimitrios Papakonstantinou

I playing chess since I was 6. I started participating on national tournaments one year later. Every year, except one,I was in top 6 players counting 4 1st places. I had the chance to play many european and word events in Croatia, Austria, Czech republic, Georgia, India and Vietnam. I travel a lot for tournaments mostly on Serbia, Boulgaria and New Macedonia. My favorite win is against Erigaisi Argun 2016 in word junior in India.

I am teaching chess since I was 18 although I as preparing my young teamates when playing on 1st league and other team events. I have been head coach on MAPO KERAVNOS team (many years on 1st league) while I also had private lessons and school chess classes. Now I am head coach on a new team S.O. ARISTOTELIS and am mainly focus on online lessons. My gratest coaching achivement is Dimitrios Bozanis, with 4 months of weekly lessons he became a 2000 rated player grabing 200 rating points.

I am graduated mathematician specilized in data sciense. Mathematics and chess have similar structure, each topic helps me on the other. Right now I am teaching robotics, STEM and every school lesson for young students.

Deep analytical thinking and patience are my stronger skills both on playing and teaching

to my point of view endgames are significantly important for chess understanding and hence I focus there with structured methodology frome the gratest books like Dvorevsky endgame manual. After a stronge endgame knowledge established I focus on tactical skills. I do my best to provide exersizes for clear and deep calculation. Last but not least strategical concepts take place mainly from classical games. Then I teach the principals of chess opennings and specific lines. Openings are last because is the hardest part to understand but more importandly because I need to recognize my students style before providing specific repertuar. Every week I give a study in order to increase students fantasy and pattern recognition. Studies are usually related to the topic we discas. Of course the Teaching methodology depends on the student needs more than anything else.