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Updated – Sept. 21, 2020

Professional Chess Coach (Level V)

Name	Exp. Date	City/State	Phone	Email/Web
Bachler, Kevin	Lifetime	Park Ridge, IL	847-650-1032	[email protected] www.cavemanchess.com
Bardwick, Todd	Lifetime	Denver, CO	303-770-6696	[email protected] www.ColoradoMasterChess.com
Mehler, David	Lifetime	Silver Spring, MD	202-857-4922	[email protected]
Neff, Elliott	Lifetime	Bellevue, WA	425-283-0549	[email protected]
Nilsson, Martin	Lifetime	San Diego, CA	619-818-7759	[email protected]
Phillips, Rene W	Lifetime	LA
Ritter, Mark	Lifetime	FL

National Chess Coach (Level IV)

Name	Exp. Date	City/State	Phone	Email/Web
Ararat, Miguel	Lifetime	FL
Armenta, C J	Lifetime	MO
Bowman, Ralph E	Lifetime	KS
Goodall, Lawrence	Lifetime	FL
Holliman, Bob	Lifetime	Kansas City, MO – Global	816-547-9962	[email protected]
Kranich-Ritter, Tania	Lifetime	FL
Marshall, Calvin	Lifetime	OH
Nager, Eric	Lifetime	DaphnL	251-626-1140	[email protected]
Panner, Glenn E	Lifetime	IL		@
Smith, Charles A	Lifetime	Seattle, WA	205-790-7530	[email protected]
Steppe, Steven J	Lifetime	IN
Swaney, Paul	Lifetime	VA
Tusing, Tim	Lifetime	Gainesville, FL	352-316-1199	[email protected]
Wood, Mark	Lifetime	Lancaster, PA	717-475-6473	[email protected]

Advanced Chess Coach (Level III)

Name	Exp. Date	City/State	Phone	Email/Web
Abate, Rudolph	September 2023	NC
Acholonu, Gregory	April 2022	MD
Aghajanyan, Artur	October 2022	North Hollywood, CA	818-793-6302	[email protected]
Baffo, Jeffrey	October 2024	Centennial, CO	303-210-2160	[email protected]
Brady, Stephen	May 2020	Chattanooga, TN	423-827-8820	[email protected]
Brown, Wendel	March 2021	NM
Castillo, Manuel	March 2021	NM
Chen, Ke	April 2021	San Ramon, CA	925-997-0832	[email protected]
Ciamarra, Michael	June 2021	AL
Ciano, Jason	February 2024	NY
Crable, Bradley	April 2023	PA
Deshpande, Aniruddha	May 2025	CT		[email protected]
Dietsch, Neil	June 2023	AL
Eltobgi, Alexander	September 2020	Silver Spring, MD		[email protected]
Fiedorowicz, Jess	April 2024	Iowa City, IA
Green, Robert	June 2020	TX
Hodzhamkylyyev, Bahadur	August 2024	NY
Holt, Alice	July 2020	IL
Jere, Daniel Mwamba	September 2024	VA
Johnson, Frank	June 2021	GA
Johnson, Ross	October 2022	Boerne, TX
Leone, Ross Lynn	January 2020	Sequin, TX	512-545-3179	[email protected]
Lewis, Richard A.	July 2024	New Rochelle, NY winter – York ME summer		[email protected]
Little, William	April 2020	Cairo, IL	618-306-1888	[email protected]
Maharaj, Shiva	July 2020	IL
Moran, Thomas	August 2022	NY
Morin, Roger	March 2024	ME
Morrison, William	September 2021	MD
Nash, Damian	October 2023	HI
Perea, Steve	February 2020	NM
Robinson, Charu	August 2024	New York, NY	917-763-6869	[email protected]
Romano, Francis	October 2022	NJ
Rosales, Guadalupe	September 2020	CA
Rosales Sr, Marcelo	December 2024	San Diego, CA	858-888-2474	[email protected]
Sabine, Jay	July 2020	Crossville, TN	931-335-7007	[email protected]
Schweiss, Christina	February 2023	VA
Shaver, Richard	September 2020	South Charleston, WV	304-590-8616	[email protected]
Singler, Jonathon	August 2023	AK
Teachey, Robert	March 2023	Arlington, VA		[email protected]
Viray, Norman Eugenio	October 2021	IL
Young, Vernon	August 2024	NV		[email protected]
Wells, Julie	April 2025	VA

Chess Coach (Level II)

Name	Exp. Date	City/State	Phone	Email/Web
Armstrong, Justin	February 2021	Franklin, VA	757-646-9397	[email protected]
Attwood, Adam	September 2020	MO
Baesler, Daniel	September 2021	VA
Baesler, Mary Elizabeth	February 2021	VA
Bala, Bala	May 2022	VA
Barbosa, Oliver	August 2022	New York, NY	929-386-6946	[email protected]
Bhatt, Jay	October 2020	TX
Bland, Mark	March 2021	Virginia Beach, VA	757-498-1835	[email protected]
Boyd-Browne, Heather	November 2022	VA
Brian, Arthur	August 2022	NY
Brummer, Richard Ernst	June 2020	Baltimore, MD	410-467-2913	[email protected]
Bustillos, Jack	February 2021	VA
Campbell, Douglas	April 2021	IA
Charette, Lauia	August 2022	NY
Charles, Steve	September 2021	OH
Charry, Henry	September 2022	Centreville, VA		[email protected]
Chen, Meng Nan	August 2022	NY
Chong, David	June 2022	CA
Chromczak, Thomas	December 2020	Whitesboro, NY	315-732-6939 H 315-982-4943	[email protected]
Daniels, Wendel	October 2020	NJ
Dong, Samantha	August 2022	NY
Eckelmann, Stephen	September 2022	NY
Edmonds, Nathaniel	October 2022	VA
Fawole, John	August 2022	Brooklyn, NY	347-702-3028	[email protected] http://yemifawole.com/
Fjeld, Johan	February 2021	Corpus Christi, TX	361-737-2075	[email protected]
Flores, Bryan	July 2021	VA
Gardner, Richard	August 2020	Ft. Myers, FL	239-223-0550	[email protected]
Gonzalez, Jason	August 2022	NY
Govindan, Balagee	July 2022	Birmingham, AL	205-421-1523	[email protected] – www.ChessKidsNation.com
Guzy, Brian	August 2021	NY
Hallayeva, Bahur	August 2022	NY
Hennis, Ajallade	August 2023	Brooklyn, NY		[email protected] fosterscommunity.org
Holes, J W	June 2022	OH
Huntington, Jerry	April 2020	TX
Jackson, Robert	June 2021	VA
Jenkins, Gerl	August 2020	Oakland,CA Alameda Co		[email protected] West Coast Alliance
Judson, Frederic	August 2022	GA	770-966-7511
Kea, DaviKd	June 2021	VA
Kelley, James	June 2022	IN
Kinsey, Randall	August 2022	Hammond, LA	985-974-4598	[email protected]
Klein, Peter	January 2021	CA
Lim, Nelson	August 2022	NY
Linares, Jose	August 2020	MA
Lohr, Bryant	March 2021	Chesapeake, VA	703-853-5733	[email protected]
Lohr, Justin	February 2021	Chesapeake, VA
Lohr, Nathan	March 2021	VA
Malevanaia, Oksana	April 2023	IL	847-485-9155	https://chess-coach-chicago-area.business.site/
Manetti, Lawrence	September 2022	IL
Marin, Kevin	August 2022	Brooklyn, NY
Martinez, Jonathan	April 2023	Tucson, AZ		[email protected]
McClendon, Donald	January 2021	OH
Milanovic, Nemanja	July 2021	VA
Natarjan, Varun	July 2022	VA		[email protected]
Nelms, Albert	May 2020	IN
Ortiz, Diosdado	January 2022	NJ
Palmer, Rich	January 2021	Riverside, CA		[email protected]
Pryor, Kevin	December 2020	Jacksonville, FL	904-607-9111	[email protected]
Recher, Scott	February 2021	Chesapeake, VA	757-647-4724	[email protected]
Reyes, Mark	February 2020	El Paso, TX
Richlen, D.J.	February 2021	WI
Saquisili, Anthony	April 2023	NY
Schlich, Ernest	March 2021	VA
Seid, Edward	October 2021	HI
Sikora, James	September 2021	The Villages, FL	352-350-2628	[email protected]
Strahl, Katrina	September 2022	NY
Swager, Charles	February 2021	Chesapeake, VA	757-482-3898 757-620-0894	[email protected]
Tappen, Eugene M.	July 2022	New London,NH
Taxman, Rebecca	September 2022	NY
Theiss, Nikolas	March 2021	Bethesda, MD
Torres, William	May 2023	Waterbury, CT	203-684-4283	[email protected]
Uddin, Mubassar	August 2022	NY
Vigil, Eric Golf	January 2024	IA
Weber, Joseph	December 2021	PA
Wilkinson, Sinclair	June 2022	VA
Yagiz, Bora	February 2020	McClean, VA & New York, NY	703-599-8261	[email protected]
Zhang, Tommy	August 2022	Brooklyn, NY		[email protected]

Local Chess Coach (Level I)

Name	Exp. Date	City/State	Phone	Email/Web
Alameda, Eladio	June 2021	Jacksonville, FL	786-380-1613	[email protected] http://www.kidslearnchess.com
Allen, Thomas	April 2022	DE
Amin, Tariq	October 2021	VA
Austin, Mark	August 2021	NM		[email protected]
Ayala, Christian	July 2020	Spring, TX	713-703-5010	[email protected]
Baffo, Betty	December 2021	CO
Barnes, Larry	December 2021	Jacksonville, FL		[email protected]
Barnett, Ian	January 2021	SC
Barriga, John	August 2021	NY
Baumann, David	June 2021	ID
Bennett, Lee	March 2022	Chesapeake, VA		[email protected]
Bieda, Christopher Joseph	May 2021	Buffalo, NY	716-406-7001	www.EVCSchess.club [email protected]
Blanco, Manuel	June 2023	Hillsborogh, NJ		https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-c-blanco-04013961
Blay, Steve	March 2021	FL
Bowman, David	August 2021	CA
Boyd, Joroy	July 2021	KY
Brown, Christopher	October 2021	Baltimore, MD		[email protected]
Brown, Melvin	October 2020	FL
Brunson, Joseph	July 2021	SC
Bugayev, Vladimir	September 2020	Brooklyn, NY	917-349-4440	[email protected]
Cagle, Jonathan	June 2020	VA
Cagle, Joseph	May 2021	Cleveland, TN		[email protected]
Campbell, Tim	January 2021	MO
Chauvenet, Allen	July 2021	Arlington, VA		[email protected]
Chavez, Carlos	May 2021	New York, NY	917-886-5645	[email protected]
Chen, Alex	August 2021	NC
Chen, Angela	July 2021	NC
Chen, Larry	April 2020	NC
Chen, Xin	July 2020	CA
Christie, Rick	August 2020	CO
Clark, John	August 2021	VA
Clem, Thomas	March 2021	GA
Collins, Robert	September 2021	VA
Conner, DaRhon	June 2021	MI
Cousar, Hendrick	July 2021	SC
Daugherty, Gib	May 2022	OR
Davis, Tyrone	June 2021	VA
Davis, Dr. William	March 2021	OH	440-357-5600	[email protected] www.BrightwoodChess.webs.com
Dinicola, Edward	February 2021	NJ
Dreher, Michael	August 2020	MN
Duley, Michael	August 2022	Berlin, NJ		[email protected]
Durkin, Anthony	October 2021	PA

Fletcher, David	June 2021	TN
Freeman, Keith	September 2021	OH
Foote, George	February 2021	FL
Forster, Miriam	January 2020	MD	202-321-1188	[email protected]
Fowlkes, Dane	July 2020	TX
Gilstrap, David	June 2020	CA
Griffith, Keith	June 2021	KY
Groff, Rod	July 2021	Hamden, CT	203-680-0567	[email protected] https://PlayMoreChess.com
Guadiana, Gilberto	June 2021	Houston, TX	832-859-3066	[email protected]
Gunn, James	July 2021	AL
Guzy, Blake	August 2020	NY
Guzy, Carson	September 2020	NY
Guzy, Cooper	September 2020	NY
Guzy, Devon	September 2020	NY
Hagerty, John	August 2021	West Orange, NJ	973-736-3433	[email protected]
Harris, Tyrone	November 2020	CA
Hartmann, Kevin	September 2021	CT
Harvell, Julius	June 2021	IN
Harvin, Corey	April 2022	Miami, FL
Hernandez, Ruben	October 2021	TX
Herrera, Reymundo	September 2021	VA
Hill, Misae	August 2021	NY
Hilliard, Rebecca	March 2021	FL
Hislop Smith, Maxcine	July 2021	Allen, TX	214-566-4007	[email protected]
Hoard, Prentice	July 2021	AR
Howell, Michael	June 2022	Chelmsford, MA	978-808-4714	[email protected]
Hubbard Jr., Wayne David	July 2021	Winchester, VA	973-280-7189	[email protected]
Hunter, Arthur	May 2020	Lynden, WA	360-401-9459	[email protected]
Jackson, Reginald	June 2021	IL
Johnson, Kenneth	June 2021	KY
Johnson, Mark B.	November 2021	TX
Kedjejian, Nareg	August 2021	CA
Keyworth, Paul	June 2021	Brooklyn, NY	320-250-3970	[email protected]
Kinder, Richard	October 2020	FL
Kinnear, Samuel	September 2021	VA
Lancaster, Brian	October 2021	VA
Lazo, Aaron	May 2020	TX
Lieberman, Robert	November 2020	NY
Lindsay Jr., Ronald	October 2019	MD
Lunsford, Walter	January 2021	MD
Madison, Darryl	October 2021	Laurelton, NY	917-558-5896	[email protected]
Mason, Ceylon	July 2021	NC
Mathew, Ritesh	September 2021	Los Angeles, CA		[email protected]
McDade, Chris	August 2021	Arlington, TN	901-612-0703	Librarian, Barret’s Chapel School http://librabry_bcsk8.Chrismcdade.org [email protected]
Miglin, Paul	June 2020	TX
Milanovic, Lazar	April 2021	VA
Minshew, Donald	July 2020	Plantation, FL	386-243-0578	[email protected]
Montoya, Eric	August 2020	TX
Moody, Michael	June 2020	Woodland Hills, CA	818-266-4779	[email protected]
Morgan, John III	February 2022	Austin, TX		[email protected]
Myers, Marlon	July 2020	TX
Odell, John	June 2021	Malvern, PA	484-885-6205	[email protected]
Patton, Thomas A	April 2022	OK
Peak, Claudia	June 2023	TX
Peralta, Luis M.	July 2021	IL
Perkins, Harry	November 2020	Houma, LA	985-205-3519	[email protected] https://www.facebook.com/houma.chess.9
Pinon, Dennis	June 2021	Phoenix, AZ	623-873-1994	[email protected]
Polyak, Vasyl	October 2021	Patton, PA	814-674-5552	http://www.pattonbyzcath.org/?page_id=296
Procopio, Frank	January 2022	PA
Propper, Alan	August 2021	NY
Rathburn, Donald	July 2021	MS
Reno, Joshua	May 2020	IN
Rhodes, David I	September 2021	AZ
Rivera, Remi	October 2021	FL
Rodriguez, Freddy	July 2021	Paramus, NJ	201-362-0115
Rodriguez, Rafael	August 2021	FL		[email protected]
Rollerson, Elijah	September 2021	Buffalo, NY		[email protected] Blackknightschess.org
Rosales Jr, Marcelo	August 2021	CA
Rosengarth, Matt	January 2020	Modesto, CA		[email protected]
Rysavy, Joseph	March 2022	Chesapeake, VA		[email protected]
Sanchez, Ralph	May 2021	Ashland, KY
Santiago, Miguel	April 2020	Yuma, AZ	928-988-0897	[email protected]
Sargsyan, Meruzhan	July 2021	CA
Schechter, Rachel	June 2021	IL
Scherr, Daniel	May 2022	TN
Schumer, Ken	April 2022	Austin, TX		[email protected]
Schwartz, Martin	December 2020	SC
Seavers, Corbin	April 2022	Louisville, KY		[email protected]
Self, David	December 2021	AL
Sims, Barnard	January 2020	GA
Singleton, Desilva	August 2020	TX
Smith, Robert	July 2021	ND
Smith, William	November 2021	MD
Smurdon, Richard	October 2021	IN
Soutiere, Joshua	August 2021	NY
Speight II, Timothy	March 2021	MI		[email protected]
St. Vallier, Tyshawn	July 2021	NJ
Staley, Tim	July 2021	Gainesville, FL	404-242-6728	[email protected]
Sullivan, Scott	November 2021	Cloppell, TX	469-400-3002	[email protected]
Thomas, Matt	March 2022	Hampton, VA	757-947-5122
Thompson, Victor	July 2021	IL
Toops, Brynn	April 2020	MD
Walther, Bruce	December 2021	FL
Wang, George	August 2020	CT
Wang, Jake	August 2020	CT
Watkins, Hubert	February 2021	PA
Watson, Darrell	December 2020	OH
Webb, Thomas	October 2021	Anchorage, AK	832-754-1123	[email protected] Lastfrontierchess.org
Wideman, Dean	January 2020	San Anotion, TX	210-336-7285	[email protected]
Williams, Richard	June 2020	KY
Woods, Michael	March 2021	KS

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