Chess Prime is an online chess school for children: 250+ families, small groups strictly by level, a four-stage programme. We handle recruitment, the timetable, payments and parents. You focus on the lesson and your players’ progress. Pay is from 700 to 1 400 ₽ per lesson, paid twice a month.
We are hiring 8 coaches for the 2026/27 season — for groups and one-to-one lessons. We review applications within 2 working days.
ApplyFour reasons strong coaches burn out working for themselves. We have dealt with each one — otherwise coaches wouldn’t stay with us for a second season.
Over the summer the group falls apart, and in September you rebuild it from scratch. Your income depends on who got in touch this month.
With us: recruitment, advertising and filling groups are our job and our cost. The timetable is set for the season, not the month; if a child leaves, we fill the place.
Messages with parents, payment reminders, hunting for free slots, receipts and contracts. Half your time isn’t coaching at all.
With us: payments, rescheduling, missed lessons and complaints are handled by support. The coach does the lesson, the group chat and a short monthly report using a template.
A beginner and a rated player in the same group: the first is bored, the second struggles. The parent sees no progress and leaves after two months.
With us: groups are formed strictly by level after an assessment, and progress is marked by stages, rating categories and tournaments. Parents get a report once a month.
Tutoring platforms take a commission and push you into undercutting, clubs pay “by the scale”, and when a lesson is cancelled, the coach pays.
With us: your rate is fixed before your first lesson and can’t be changed unilaterally. Pay comes twice a month with a breakdown for every lesson.
Move the sliders to match your schedule. We calculate using our current rates: 4.3 teaching weeks a month, paid for the lessons actually taught.
This is an estimate: your final rate depends on your level, format and selection results. We give exact figures at the interview — before your first lesson.
Formats can be combined: coaches usually start with two groups, add one-to-one students, and after a season take on tournament training or mentoring. Your rate is reviewed along with the format.
A group of 4–7 children at one level, two lessons a week. The most predictable income: a timetable for the whole season and the same children week after week.
One student and a clear goal: a rating category, a school olympiad, a first tournament. Only the first lesson has no plan — after that you lead the student yourself using our template.
Children from the 2nd rating category upwards who are going for results. This needs tournament experience: you analyse the student’s games, build an opening repertoire and guide them through the competition calendar.
For those for whom chess isn’t their only commitment: tournaments, studies, work at a club. You take one or two groups in convenient slots and don’t have to carry the whole season in your head.
A role for a coach who has grown within the school: you teach your own groups, supervise 3–5 coaches and help shape the programme. It’s not a “boss” but a coach of coaches — and the only way to influence the school’s method.
| Parameter | Small groups | One-to-one | Tournament training | Part-time | Senior coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate per lesson | 700–1 100 ₽ | 750–1 150 ₽ | 1 200–1 400 ₽ | depends on lesson format | higher + extra pay |
| Length | 45 minutes | 45 minutes | 60 minutes | 45–60 minutes | 45–60 minutes |
| Children per lesson | 4–7 | 1 | 1–2 | 1–7 | 1–7 + coaches |
| Lessons per week | from 4 | from 4 | from 2 | 4–8 | from 12 |
| Who brings in students | Chess Prime | Chess Prime | Chess Prime | Chess Prime | Chess Prime |
| Lesson preparation | ready-made plan | template + your plan | your plan for the student | ready-made plan | you write the plans |
| Growth path | + one-to-one | + tournament training | + mentoring | + full load | the school’s method |
The usual path: two groups in the first month → plus one-to-one students → tournament training or mentoring from the second season. We review your rate at every step, not “some day”.
Three questions — and we’ll show you the format to start with, along with the rate and workload.
These aren’t “perks of the job” — they are what our side of the work is made of. Filter by what matters most to you.
You get a ready-made small group: 4–7 children at one level, with agreed days and times. Recruitment, advertising and sales are on us.
The family comes with a goal — “a rating category”, “a tournament”, “confidence” — and already knows what it costs and how long it will take.
We assess every child before the first lesson: level, pace, what they can already do. You get a group, not a puzzle.
From meeting the pieces to rating category norms: lesson plans, puzzles by topic, checkpoints. The programme has been tested with 250+ families.
A presentation, a set of puzzles, homework and a parent report template. No need to prepare a lesson from scratch — just adapt it to your group.
An interactive board, games, a puzzle trainer and homework in one window. Children play between lessons, and you see their games.
A register, lesson links, reminders for children and parents, attendance tracking. You receive a ready-made list for the week.
Payments, rescheduling, missed lessons, dissatisfaction, refunds — all of this is handled by our support team. The coach doesn’t collect money or persuade anyone to stay.
For the lessons you have actually taught, with a breakdown: which lessons, with whom, at what rate. No deductions for finding students and no “platform fees”.
Your first lessons are run with a supervisor who watches, reviews and gives tips. No “here’s a group, you’re on your own”.
Every two weeks the team reviews lessons, tricky cases and child psychology. The recordings stay in the library.
Monthly in-house tournaments, brackets, certificates and rating category norms. Your students play — and your work gets results in numbers.
Groups don’t break up in summer: we run short intensives and camps. Your workload and income stay, instead of collapsing for three months.
Everything listed is part of the job and costs the coach nothing: we have no paid training, no fees for access to materials and no deposits.
Selection is set up like a game: first we get to know each other, then we test you in practice, then we train you — and only then do we trust you with children. Click a move and the board will show the position.
The terms are the same for everyone, but the start, workload and format differ. See your scenario.
You already know how to keep a child at the screen for 45 minutes — that’s the hardest part, and it’s something we can’t teach. After that it’s only a question of a steady flow of students: ours is even and doesn’t depend on how much you spent on advertising this month.
A competition calendar wrecks any timetable, so we have a format built around it: you take 4–8 lessons a week in convenient slots, and while you’re at a tournament a back-up coach takes your group. Your place and rate are kept.
At clubs and youth sports schools, pay is tied to a pay scale and hours, and groups are filled “however it works out”. Here you work from home in the evenings, and reporting comes down to one template a month instead of paper registers and plans.
If you run a chess club at a school or centre and play yourself, that’s enough to start. Your teaching side is already strong — we fill in the chess method and work on the platform during training.
Our students live in different countries, so there’s nobody to cover morning and daytime slots on Moscow time. If you are in another time zone, that’s an advantage: we give you groups that otherwise couldn’t be formed.
We publicly promise parents and partners a minimum playing level, so we don’t lower it. Everything else is open to discussion.
No “we’ll call you back when recruitment opens”. A real schedule with clear responsibilities — you can see where you’re needed and where we are.
The form at the bottom of the page: rating category, experience, city, how many lessons you’re ready to teach. Five minutes, no CV needed.
We reply within two working days and offer interview slots straight away. The interview is a 30-minute video call, with no five-page questionnaires.
Part of a lesson for a methodologist or a test group, plus a short teaching-method test. We give feedback the same day.
The programme, the platform, rules for communicating with parents, typical situations in lessons. Free, with no obligation to work it off.
2–3 lessons in tandem: first you watch, then you teach part, then the whole lesson under supervision. The internship is paid.
We fix your rate, format and timetable, sign the agreement online and give you access to the coach’s account.
You meet your own children. Your mentor is on hand for the first two weeks, then you work on your own.
A coach isn’t a disposable resource: replacing one costs more than keeping one. So our commitments to you are in writing, just like our commitments to parents.
You know your per-lesson pay before you meet the children; it’s in the agreement and in your account. It changes only by mutual agreement — and in practice only upwards.
For the lessons you have actually taught, with a breakdown for each one. No commissions for finding students and no “platform” deductions.
New groups and students don’t appear in your timetable without your “yes”. Want more? Add some. Tired? Cut back.
We don’t move children between coaches to make the timetable easier. A transfer is only possible at the family’s request or if you leave.
Every group has a back-up coach: the lesson goes ahead, the group stays yours, and there are no penalties for cancelling for a valid reason.
We’ll email you a sample lesson plan and a lesson recording — no calls, no pressure.
Request materials| Parameter | On your own | Tutoring platform | Club, sports school, school | Chess Prime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who finds students | you, with your own money | you, for a commission | the institution, “however it works out” | we do, at our expense |
| What you keep from a lesson | everything, but there are few lessons | minus a 20–30% commission | a rate on the pay scale | a fixed rate with no deductions |
| Gaps and cancellations | your problem | your problem | you still have to sit out the hours | we build the timetable |
| Messages with parents | you | you | you and the deputy head | the school’s support team |
| Method and materials | you put them together yourself | none | there’s a programme, but no materials | 4 stages + lesson plans |
| Paperwork and payment | all yourself, including receipts | through the platform | an employment contract, but also a rate on the pay scale | an agreement with you as self-employed, paid twice a month |
| What happens in summer | almost no students | demand drops | holiday with no lessons | intensives and camps — your workload stays |
| Growth | only your lesson price | only your rating on the platform | a qualification grade every few years | level, tournament training, mentoring |
A coach doesn’t need yet another gig platform — they need children who turn up to lessons and the confidence that pay will arrive on time. For four years we have been building a school where coaches do chess, not sales and messaging. If in your first month you want to change something about this, write to me personally.
Candidate Master or higher under the Russian Chess Federation classification, or an equivalent rating. This is the standard we publicly promise parents and partners, so we don’t go below it. A tournament rating alone isn’t enough, though: next we look at how you explain things and hold a child’s attention.
No. If you play but have never taught, we give you introductory training in our method and an internship with a mentor: first you watch other coaches’ lessons, then you teach part of a lesson yourself, then you get your own group. We don’t put anyone in front of children without preparation — that would be bad for everyone.
We review applications within two working days, then there’s a 30-minute interview, a trial lesson and a teaching-method test. It usually takes about two weeks from application to your first group.
Training is free, and the internship is paid at the starter rate. We have no fees for access to materials, no deposits and no “paid courses for candidates” — we pay the coach, not the other way round.
A computer or laptop, a stable internet connection, a headset with a microphone, a camera and a quiet place for the lesson. A phone or tablet isn’t enough: in lessons you work with the interactive board and materials in one window.
No. Recruitment, advertising, sales and filling groups are our job. You get a ready-made group at one level or one-to-one students who have already been assessed. Nothing is deducted from you for finding students.
From 4 lessons a week. Yes, you can combine it with other work — that’s common: our coaches include active players and club coaches. We agree your schedule in advance and never add new lessons to it without your confirmation.
Our support team handles all the organisational side — payments, rescheduling, missed lessons, complaints. From the coach we need a short monthly progress report using a template and answers about lesson content in the group chat.
Let us know and we’ll arrange cover from a back-up coach — the group stays yours. There are no penalties for cancelling for a valid reason. We see tournaments as a plus, not a hindrance, and adjust the timetable to your calendar.
Yes, we don’t require exclusivity: your private students and your club work remain yours. The one strict rule is not to move the school’s children to private lessons. That’s the one case where we part ways immediately.
The main flow is weekdays from 16:00 to 20:30 Moscow time and weekend mornings: children have lessons after school. For coaches in other time zones there are morning and daytime slots — exactly the ones nobody else can cover.
5–15 minutes. The lesson plan, presentation, puzzle set and homework are already put together — you adapt them to your group rather than write them from scratch. One-to-one lessons take more: there you follow your own plan for the student.
Filling groups is our job. If recruitment in your slot is slow, we offer another time or one-to-one students. We don’t pay coaches for empty slots, but we don’t impose them either: until there’s a group, you have no obligations.
From 700 to 1400 ₽ per lesson, depending on the format (group, one-to-one, tournament training) and your level in the school. Your rate is fixed before your first lesson and can’t be changed unilaterally. We give exact figures for your case at the interview.
Twice a month for the lessons you have actually taught, to your card or to your bank details as a self-employed (Russian tax status) coach. Each payment comes with a breakdown: which lessons, with whom, at what rate.
A service agreement with you as a self-employed person (Russian tax status) or an individual entrepreneur. We’ll help you register as self-employed if you haven’t yet. No fees, deposits or paid training: we pay you, not the other way round.
There’s no system of penalties. There are two reasons we part ways: repeated lateness and cancellations without notice, and rudeness to children or parents. Everything else is settled by talking.
The first review is after your first month, then based on results: group retention, parent feedback, students’ rating categories. Coaches usually move from the starter to the standard level within one to two months, after which tournament training and mentoring open up.
We work in line with Russian Federal Law No. 152-FZ: we collect the minimum necessary data, obtain consent from a legal representative for children and don’t share data with third parties. The processing procedure is described in our .
Fill in the form: we’ll review your application within two working days and come back with interview slots. If the job isn’t a fit, we’ll tell you straight and explain why.
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