Most chess advice is well-intentioned.
It's also why you're still stuck.
You’ve done the work. Thousands of puzzles. Opening prep. YouTube videos at midnight. Maybe a book or two. You followed the advice everyone gives — and your rating barely moved.
So you did what any reasonable person does: you tried harder. More puzzles. Different openings. A new video series. Still nothing.
At some point, a quieter thought crept in. Maybe the problem isn’t the method. Maybe the problem is me. Maybe I’ve hit my ceiling.
You haven’t. But I understand why it feels that way.
Here’s the pattern I see in almost every player I work with: they don’t lack effort. They don’t lack resources. They’ve consumed more chess content than most titled players ever will.
What they were never taught — what nobody taught them — is how to think during a game.
This is where I can help you.
Hi, I'm Goran.
I played my first chess game in 1995. I was five years old, and my country Bosnia was at war. My father sat across from me at our kitchen table and taught me the rules — no coach, no books, no internet. Just the two of us, and the game, and time spent inside while the world outside didn’t make sense.
I kept playing through my teens and into adulthood. Mostly alone and self-taught. I read whatever I could find, played wherever I could, and learned by losing until I didn’t.
In 2022 — at 32 years old — I became a FIDE Master. Not through a system. Not with private coaching from a young age. Through years of figuring it out the hard way, building a process when no one handed me one.
I tell you this because it matters for how I coach. I know what it feels like to improve without resources. I know the frustration of grinding alone with no feedback, no clear framework — just effort that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. And I know it’s possible to break through, even later than you’d like.
In 2023 I started coaching full-time. Since then I’ve worked with 50+ ambitious adult beginners — people who had already tried everything and were starting to wonder if chess was simply not for them. Most of the time, that’s not a talent problem. It’s a thinking problem. And thinking problems have solutions.
The Anti-Blunder Guide came from watching my students play.
Try it in your next 10 games. You don’t have to trust me — just test it.
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