Creation of a free Mentoring platform : would YOU be interested ?

@Akbar2thegreat said in #20:
> Highest player needs not any mentoring. They are already highest rated for a reason.
> Do you seriously think that Carlsen needs to be trained?
Carlsen needs to be keep training to countinue being "highest rated"...

@Ben10Tenyson said in #21:
> Carlsen needs to be keep training to countinue being "highest rated"...
No. If he is highest rated then he certainly doesn't need any training. And not only highest rated, rather all WCs don't need any training as there is no superior title than WC.

@Akbar2thegreat said in #20:
> Highest player needs not any mentoring. They are already highest rated for a reason.
> Do you seriously think that Carlsen needs to be trained?

Carlsen has a coach. Peter Heine Nielsen is his name

@Akbar2thegreat said in #22:
> No. If he is highest rated then he certainly doesn't need any training. And not only highest rated, rather all WCs don't need any training as there is no superior title than WC.

Obviously, this is untrue, all players continue to train regardless of whatever titles or statuses they obtain. Carlsen is constantly playing and training in chess, all professional chess players train consistently.

-Jordan

@h2b2 said in #23:
> Carlsen has a coach. Peter Heine Nielsen is his name
That's not called coaching, rather sharing knowledge with each other would be better option as Peter is actually rated about 2700.

@jg777 said in #24:
> Obviously, this is untrue, all players continue to train regardless of whatever titles or statuses they obtain. Carlsen is constantly playing and training in chess, all professional chess players train consistently.
Not untrue. No player requires to be coached without their will. And most present strong players aren't been trained as such as it was case long before.

Carlsen is not sharing knowledge with Peter, Peter is his actual coach. Carlsen trains all the time. Kasparov also had a coach for years while he was the best player in the world. They both train(ed) often as well. Not sure why you'd insisting your statements are true when they are clearly false here.

-Jordan

I think this is a great idea/concept. I got paired by chance reading a forum on Chess.com about this very subject. Shout out to Jordan (jg777) who is my mentor at this time. I would like to think he would do his best not teach me "garbage", but only things that would help me improve as a player. So that hopefully one day I could pay it forward, by gifting someone the knowledge he is passing on to me. Anyone who is doing for any reason other than promoting the game and encouraging lower rated players, isn't doing it for the right reasons any way.

@Akbar2thegreat said in #25:
> That's not called coaching, rather sharing knowledge with each other would be better option as Peter is actually rated about 2700.

It's called coaching. the number one tennis player in the world has a coach, the number one golfer has a coach, the number one swimmer, the number one runner, the list goes on and on.

not only does magnus have a coach, he has a team of people that prepares him for the world champ tournament.

@DrHack said in #18:
> @FiveofSwords
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> IM Till Wipperman used to hang out with our mentor group on the ICC when we ran a similar idea back in the early 2000's as well as several other 2200+ players. The group was ironically called LeChess. So... go forward 20 years, change the spelling to LiChess, and run it again with a new crowd.
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> Consider your negativity debunked. I think everyone that participated got something from the experience.
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> Though if the OP is trying to make money off of free mentoring somehow.. that would really defeat the purpose wouldn't it? Hopefully this isn't the case.

Haha I'm not reinventing the wheel. It is clearly not the goal to monetize this service, I feel like everyone should find someone a bit better to help him for free.

@chessdaddo68 said in #27:
> I think this is a great idea/concept. I got paired by chance reading a forum on Chess.com about this very subject. Shout out to Jordan (jg777) who is my mentor at this time. I would like to think he would do his best not teach me "garbage", but only things that would help me improve as a player. So that hopefully one day I could pay it forward, by gifting someone the knowledge he is passing on to me. Anyone who is doing for any reason other than promoting the game and encouraging lower rated players, isn't doing it for the right reasons any way.

Thanks for this insight, this is exactly the kind of positive feedback that encourages me :)