Chess classes for kids and adults in English online or offline in Basel

From 116 C$ /h

UK team champion (2022) as a member of the London-based Charlton Chess Club team. UK Premiere League player since 2023.

Active FIDE rating - 2300 (2025).

World's Top-100 Lichess Rapid Player in 2018, 2021, 2022, rated 2600+.

Winner of nearly thirty OTB tournametns and over hundred open online chess competitions on Lichess and Chess.com.

Best performance - 1st place at Lichess Arena Open Tournament (1756 participants) in 2022.

I started teaching kids in 2008, and switched to teaching full-time professionally in 2016. I have my own teaching method that combines Soviet Chess School expertise with contemporary European humanistic psychology. Aknowledging a huge part sport psychology plays in kids' academic and sport performance, I pay particular attention to working on this with the students. My students are champions and prize winners of numerous tournaments for children in the USA, UK, New Zealand and Australia.

I'll be happy to help you in your chess goals, whether you want to learn for yourself or to get some results in professional sport.

Location

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Around Basel, Switzerland

Online from Switzerland

About Me

I'm Alex Radchenko, FIDE Master and a Licensed FIDE Trainer. For over a decade, I've worked internationally with players of very different profiles: from complete beginners to national champions, in one-to-one settings and within public and private schools in the UK, Montenegro, Russia and across Europe. Many of my students have reached 2300+ ELO, successfully performed at national and international tournaments, including world championships. My training comes from the Olympic Reserve School of St. Petersburg and the Mikhail Chigorin Chess Club, where chess was taught as a way of thinking, rather than just a set of moves. In my own work, I build on this classical foundation and combine it with modern cognitive and motivational approaches, especially effective for students with ADHD and other attention-related challenges. Lessons are dynamic and situational: we think through positions together, out loud, and in real time, adapting the work to how each student actually learns. I currently teach individual students and train chess teams online, and I also run short-format chess camps and seminars for schools and businesses.
Welcome to my personal website https://radchess.com/

Education

I practiced at the legendary Mikhail Chigorin Central Saint Petersburg Chess Club and studied chess at School of Olympic Reserve No2. Multiple champion and prize winner of open chess tournaments in blitz and rapid games in UK, Germany, Finland, Montenegro, CIS countries. Have been taking part in chess tournaments since 1999.

Experience / Qualifications

Career Distinctions

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FIDE Master & Arena International Master (FIDE rating 2306)
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FIDE Trainer License (2026)
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4NCL UK Team Champion (2022)
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Top 0.01% worldwide (online rating 2650+)
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International Tournament Winner (UK, France, Switzerland, Montenegro, Serbia, Finland, Germany)

Active FIDE rating - 2306 (2026).
Best FIDE 2313, chess.com 2737, Lichess 2793.

World's Top-100 Lichess Rapid Player in 2018, 2021, 2022, rated 2600+.

Winner of nearly thirty OTB tournametns and over hundred open online chess competitions on Lichess and Chess.com.

Best online performance - 1st place at Lichess Arena Open Tournament (1756 participants) in 2022.

https://radchess.com/

Age

Preschool children (4-6 years old)

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes

The class is taught in

German

English

Russian

Skills

Chess

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -04:00)

New York

Online via webcam

At student's home

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04-08

08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

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