A full year of chess homework, already done for you
Chess Tactics Mastery: Coach Edition gives every student structured tactics practice between lessons. 12 months of daily puzzles, plus a bonus month. You teach. They practice. No prep, no subscription.
Each month is one tactical theme, from forks to sacrifices, with 25 puzzles a day that get harder as the month goes on. Students practice in the interactive app or on printable PDFs. It works offline, needs no logins, and one payment covers every student you teach.
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You’re a good coach. So why are you building homework on a Sunday night?
The lesson goes well. Your student is sharp, engaged, and getting it. Then they leave, and for the next six days, nothing happens.
Next week they sit down and you ask how the puzzles went. “I didn’t get to them.”
So you spend the first fifteen minutes of a paid hour re-teaching what they’ve already forgotten. You’re not sure whether to be annoyed at them, or at yourself for not giving them something better to do.
You didn’t become a coach to spend your evenings hunting for puzzles.
Sound familiar?
- You scramble for homework the night before, or skip it altogether
- You hand every student the same worksheets because there’s no time to do more
- Students turn up having done nothing, so the lesson starts from scratch
- Parents ask “what should they practice?” and you make something up on the spot
- You’d take on more students, but the prep won’t scale
- You know your best students would improve twice as fast with structure between lessons
Your lesson is one hour. The other 167 hours decide whether they improve.
It isn’t your teaching.
It’s the gap between lessons.
Here’s how homework usually goes.
You point a student at a puzzle site and tell them to do ten a day. They do the easy ones, skip the hard ones, and by next week it’s a blur of unrelated tactics. No theme. No order. No sense of building anything.
Or you make worksheets by hand. They’re good, and they eat your evenings. Every new student means more prep.
Or you do nothing between lessons and hope the student practices on their own. Some do. Most don’t.
All three share one flaw. Nothing builds. A student can’t learn to spot a fork by seeing one fork a week. They need to meet it in a hundred different positions, in order, until they see it before they’ve thought about it.
Memory research has said the same thing for decades: students remember what they practice recalling, not what they’re shown.
Practice that asks for the answer beats practice that hands it over.
So the problem was never your coaching. Structured practice between lessons takes time most coaches don’t have, so it never gets built.
So what are your options?
If you want students practicing properly between lessons, you’ve got five choices. You’ve probably tried most of them.
Build it yourself
Total control, and hours of unpaid work every week. Most coaches run out of Sundays before they run out of students.
Free puzzle sites
Great puzzles, zero structure. No theme, no order, no way to see whether it stuck, and plenty of other things on the screen to pull a young student away.
Per-student platforms
Polished, but the bill grows with every student you add, and each student needs an account.
Books and worksheets
Fine for a lesson or two. Not a year, and not tailored to the theme you’re teaching this month.
Hope for the best
The default. Students improve slowly, or drift away because they don’t feel themselves getting better.
What’s been missing is homework that’s structured like a curriculum, costs like a single purchase, and takes you no time to set.
Why pay when puzzles are free?
Fair question. Free puzzles give students problems to solve. The Coach Edition gives them a plan, in order, and gives you nothing to prepare. Here’s the comparison.
12 months. One theme at a time. Difficulty that rises as your students do.
The quickest way to make a tactic stick is to meet it again and again, in different positions, until spotting it is automatic.
That’s what each month does. One theme. 25 puzzles a day for 30 days. Early days are gentle so students build confidence, and the puzzles get harder as the month goes on.
By the end of the year, your students have seen 9,000 puzzles across 12 core tactics, plus a bonus month of checkmates.
- 01Forks
- 02Pins
- 03Trapped Pieces
- 04Skewers
- 05Discovered Attacks
- 06Deflection
- 07Attraction
- 08Advanced Pawns
- 09Sacrifices
- 10Clearance
- 11Intermezzo
- 12Exposed King
- +1Bonus: Checkmates
Three steps, no prep
Assign the month
Each month is one folder with one theme. Send it to your students by email, a shared drive, or a USB stick. That’s your homework set for the next 30 days.
They practice daily
25 puzzles a day in the interactive app, or on printable pages if you prefer paper. The app tracks what they’ve finished.
Teach from the theme
Next lesson, you already know what they’ve been seeing. Ask about the puzzle that beat them, and spend the hour teaching, not re-teaching.
Meet Chess Tactics Mastery: Coach Edition
A complete year of tactics homework you can give to every student, with an interactive app for screens and a printable for every tactic and puzzle.
It’s the same system that players buy for themselves, with the right to share it with every student you teach.
Here’s what Month 1 (Forks) looks like
Every month follows the same pattern, so once your students have done one, they know how to do them all.
The app
Students see a position, find the move, and get instant feedback. Hints are there when they’re stuck, and the app keeps track of what they’ve completed.
The printables
A PDF for each tactic and each puzzle, for students who learn better on paper, or for when you want screens off. Solutions are included.
The progress screen
Completion stats and streaks show how far through the month a student is. A quick screenshot is all you need to see they’ve done the work.
Day 1 starts with the clearest forks, the kind a student can spot after a minute of looking. Over the month, the positions get more crowded, the forks get quieter, and the right move stops announcing itself.
By Day 30, your student is finding forks hidden behind other moves, and they’ve seen the pattern hundreds of times. Then you hand them Month 2.
Everything you need to hand out a year of homework
- Interactive app for every monthOne app per theme, opened in any modern web browser
- 25 puzzles a day30 days per theme, sorted from easier to harder
- HintsA nudge when a student is stuck, so they don’t quit
- Progress trackingCompletion stats and streaks, saved as they go
- Printable PDFsFor each tactic and each puzzle, ready to print or send
- SolutionsAnswers in algebraic notation, so you can check in seconds
- PGN filesPer puzzle, per day, or per month, for your own chess software
- Works offlineNo internet needed once it’s downloaded
- No accountsNothing for your students to sign up for
Unlimited students
Share it with everyone you teach, in person or online.
One payment
No subscription and no per-student fees.
No logins
Students open the app and start. Nothing to set up on their side.
Screens optional
Every tactic and puzzle has a printable version.
What it would take to build this yourself
You could make all of this. Plenty of coaches have started. Here’s what it involves:
- Finding 9,750 puzzles that fit 12 different tactical themes, plus a bonus
- Sorting every month from easy to hard, so students aren’t thrown in at the deep end
- Checking every solution
- Laying out a printable page for each tactic and puzzle
- Building a way for students to track what they’ve done
- Writing it all up in a format you can hand to a student
Even if you spent only 30 seconds on each puzzle, 9,750 puzzles is over 80 hours. That’s before you’ve taught a single lesson.
Or you can send Month 1 tonight, and spend the saved time on the students who pay you.
Built for coaches who’d rather teach than prepare
This is for you if
- You coach chess, one-to-one or in groups
- Your students are beginners-to-intermediates who already know how the pieces move
- You want students practicing between lessons without you chasing them
- You’d rather pay once than per student
It probably isn’t if
- You want a live dashboard showing every student’s results
- Your students are still learning how the pieces move
- You want lesson plans and teaching notes (that’s the Learning Library, below)
- You expect it to work without students practicing. It helps the ones who do
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Why I built this
I’m not a chess coach, and I won’t pretend I can teach your students better than you can.
What I’m good at is systems. And the thing about improving at chess is that it happens in the hours between lessons, not during them. Those hours need structure, and structure takes time to build, which is exactly what working coaches don’t have.
So I built the structure. A year of tactics, one theme at a time, in an order that makes sense, with an app and printables so students can work however they like.
I made it for players first. The Coach Edition is the same system with the right to share it with everyone you teach, because it shouldn’t cost you more every time you take on a student.
You do the teaching. I’ll do the homework.
James, Chess Cheat Sheets
The complete Coach Edition
One payment. Instant download. Share it with every student you teach.
Chess Tactics Mastery, Months 1 to 12
12 themed months, 9,000 puzzles, the interactive app for every month, printables for every tactic and puzzle, solutions, and PGN files. With the right to share it with all your students.
Plus two free bonuses
Bonus Month: Checkmates
A bonus month of 750 checkmate puzzles to finish the year on. The full year is the 12 tactics; this one sends your students off with the finishing blow.
Included free100+ Book Moves Opening Cheat Sheets
Printable PDF cheat sheets for the official book lines of 100+ openings. Sold to individual players for £17 ($23), and yours to share with your students.
Included freeOur individual months sell for £15 ($20) each. The 12 core months on their own would cost £180 ($240) for a single player.
The Coach Edition gives you all of them, plus the bonus month and the book-move cheat sheets, and lets you share every file with your students.
It costs £97 ($130). Once.
No subscription. No per-student fees. No paying again when you take on a new student.
That’s about £8 ($11) a month for a full year of homework, for every student you teach.
Your order
Instant download after checkout
12 months plus the bonus Checkmates month, the Book Moves cheat sheets, and the right to share it all with your students.
Instant download. One payment. Month-by-month guarantee.
The Month-by-Month Guarantee
£8 ($11) back for every month that doesn’t work for you.
Each of the 12 core months is backed for £8 ($11). Run a month with at least one student, send a screenshot of their progress screen, and tell me honestly that it didn’t help. I’ll refund £8 ($11) for that month.
Tried three months and none of them worked? That’s £24 ($32) back. Try all 12 and none of them worked? £96 ($130) back.
You keep every file either way.
- You can claim at any time in the 12 months after you buy
- You need to have actually tried each month you claim for, with at least one student, and send proof of use
- It’s one claim per order, covering every month you’ve tried. Once I’ve paid a refund, the guarantee closes
- The bonus Checkmates month, the Book Moves cheat sheets, and the Learning Library pre-order aren’t covered by this guarantee
Questions, answered
Can I try it first?
Who can I share it with?
Is there a limit on how many students I can give it to?
What exactly am I buying?
How do my students use it?
Do my students need accounts or logins?
Can I see my students’ progress?
What level is it for?
What device do students need?
Do I have to teach in the order of the months?
Can I put my own name and logo on it?
What’s in the Learning Library pre-order?
Is it a subscription?
How do I get it?
What if I get stuck?
Two ways your next lesson can go
One
Your student arrives. You ask about the puzzles. They shrug. You spend the first fifteen minutes going back over last week, and Sunday night is spent hunting for something to set them.
Two
Your student arrives having practiced 25 puzzles a day on the same theme. You ask about the one that beat them, and spend the whole hour teaching. Next month’s homework went out in thirty seconds.
The difference between those two lessons is one purchase.
Every week without structure between lessons is another week of the same shrug. A full year of homework is ready now, and sending the first month takes about as long as writing the email.
Get the Coach Edition for £97 ($130)- 12 months plus a bonus month
- Unlimited students
- Works offline, no logins
- Month-by-month guarantee
P.S. It’s £97 ($130), once. That’s about £8 ($11) a month for a year of homework, however many students you teach. And if a month doesn’t work for your students, you get £8 ($11) back for it.
