Chess with Zura

International Master · 5× Texas State Champion

Give me 100 focused hours, and I will take you from your first move to 1000 rating.

Most players don't fail because chess is too hard. They fail because their training has no structure. Here are three ways to fix that — a book, direct coaching, and a community of players doing the work alongside you.

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Zura Javakhadze seated at a chessboard during a tournament
Portrait of Zura Javakhadze

International Master. Experienced coach.

Zura Javakhadze is an International Master and five-time Texas State Champion who has earned all three Grandmaster norms and is on a quest to cross the 2500 rating mark and claim the title. Over more than ten years of coaching he has taught hundreds of players, from complete beginners to accomplished players like GM Andy Woodward and IM Grayson Rorrer.

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One — The Book

A Practical System for Chess Improvement

The First 100 Hours

A complete training system for the road from beginner to 1000. Every hour of the next three months is assigned — so you always know what to do today, and you can see the finish line from the start.

Front cover of A Practical System for Chess Improvement: The First 100 Hours by Zura Javakhadze

The budget

30
hours of tactics, with drills
36
hours of real games at 10+0
12
hours reviewing every one
8
hours of decisive endgames
8
hours for a repertoire, both colors
6
hours on blunders, the board, the routine

What you get

  • The complete 100-hour curriculum, chapter by chapter
  • Thirty companion Lichess studies of required drills
  • The Blunder Prevention Framework, taught and drilled
  • A minimalist repertoire for White and Black
  • The Training Sheet — tracker, weekly planner and game log

Instant PDF download

$27

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Two — Coaching

Work with me directly

The book is the system. Coaching is the system applied to your games, your openings and the specific mistakes that are costing you rating right now.

One-on-one lessons

Private coaching built around your own games. We find the patterns you keep repeating and we train them out.

$100
single lesson
$800
package of 10 — save $200
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Group classes

Level-based instruction in small groups, so everyone in the room is working on the same thing at the same depth.

  • Grouped by level, not by age
  • Capped at 15 players
  • Every session recorded to the classroom library
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Three — Community

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A hundred hours is easier with other people counting them alongside you. Post your games, get them looked at, and see what the players one rung above you are working on.

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