Soviet school method for children

Hi everybody!

I've been coaching chess in schools for half a year now and I'm interested in the Soviet approach as one of the most popular and successful. Could anybody please suggest any books/websites where I can learn more about this method applied to children? Thank you so much!

Ditto.

Lev Alburt wrote a few books where he mentions this so-called method and ideas from it.

I think his comprehensive chess course series actually covers some aspects of it for beginners just getting started.

I wonder if there's more to any so called method  than creating a very thorough (and cruel) filtering system in  for weeding out the kids who won't make GM very early ... and then when you start producing an assembly line of GM-strength kids across multiple years, you conveniently start attributing it to a "secret training system" ?

Is it? Sorry about that. Where?

I teach chess full time both in schools and privately and I use the Russian system for training children. I would highly recommend Lev Alburt's series, The Comprehensive Chess Course series. The first two volumes, Comprehensive Chess Course Vol 1 and Volume 2, deal with the basics. What I like about this system is that it requires the students to really work at the simplest ideas. I know from teaching 10 chess classes at ten different schools each week, that you have a smaller window of time to teach your students. Whereas, with a private student, I have more time to work through the basics and build a solid foundation for their game, with schools you have a shorter period of time to accomplish the same task. I have a huge chess library and own most of the bocks written for junior players and Lev Alburt's Russian School teaching model is still the best. Let me know if you need any other resources and I'll be happy to help!

Can't say I cared for the Siberia chapter much.

Thank you guys!

As it seems, everything leads me to Lev Alburt! I'll check it out. If you know of any online resources on the matter, it would also be great!

Happy holidays!

When failure leads to gulag you get pretty good. ;)

As with any other civilization, there are always good and bad things. As for chess, the Soviet era gave us some players among the best to play the game, unbeatable at the time. I'm talking chess, not politics! :)

When Netherrealm takes over the Earth, rest assured there will be a Soviet School chess implimentation all over the world. 

I got sent home from the Soviet school.  They said I was too syndicalist.

I got expelled from the Russian Ches School for bad Marx (and thinking Lennon was a Beatle). Thank you very much ladies and germs, I'll be here all week!

Oooh...this is way more fun:

In Soviet School,  they got frustrated asking me questions because I kept stalin.

You guys are too funny! :)

Then I kept having to leave the classroom because I was always getting the Trotskys (oh, I slay me!).