Recently, I revisited a blog post entitled “The Importance of Setting Lofty Goals in Chess.” While previously, I stressed the importance of setting lofty goals, I now want to speak of the dangers of having unrealistic goals. As a coach I like to separate expectations from goals. Every great chess player I have coached hadContinueContinue reading “Chess Parenting: Encouraging High Expectations While Avoiding the Pitfalls of Unrealistic Goals”