COACHES

The people you will actually train with

A coach is assigned to a student, not to a batch.

• Arindam Bhattacharya

  Founder & Head Coach · FIDE Instructor

  Rating 2218FIDE ID 25001234

  Started the academy in 2011 after fifteen years of club chess and two of teaching it badly, by his own account. Takes the Tournament Squad and every post-mortem session. Believes most junior games are lost in the first twenty minutes of the endgame, not the opening.

• Ruchira Sanyal

  Junior Programme Lead · Woman Candidate Master

  Rating 1964

  Runs Foundation and the junior half of the Squad. Introduced the game notebook that every student now keeps, on the grounds that a child who cannot write down what they were thinking was probably not thinking.

• Debojyoti Kar

  Openings & Endgame Coach

  Rating 2087

  Joined in 2017 from the university circuit. Takes the Saturday advanced session and prepares Squad students for rated events — which mostly means talking them out of openings they saw online that week.

• Tanaya Ghoshal

  Beginners Coach

  Rating Unrated

  Teaches First Moves and the adult evening batch, the two groups with the least in common and the same first problem: being afraid of losing. Trained as a primary school teacher before she trained as a coach.