Our Coaches
Our coaches are expert, passionate educators dedicated to supporting and inspiring students throughout their learning journey. Meet the team!
Atanu Lahiri
Atanu sir is a renowned chess personality. He has produced many Grandmasters and International masters from all over India. Atanu sir is an International master of chess. He has also mentored the chess players from five countries. A certified FIDE trainer and Commonwealth gold medalist with peak rating of 2394 ELO.
Gurpreet Pal Singh
Gurpreet sir is a former sub junior national chess champion of India and Government of India Awardee chess coach. He has been the coach of Grandmaster Sahaj Grover who became Under-10 World Chess Champion! He has been Delhi state chess champion for many years. He is a candidate master in chess with peak FIDE rating of 2360 ELO.
Chandan Mandal
Chandan Sir has been one of the most successful coach from our academy. He himself was Under-25 Uttar Pradesh state Chess Champion. He has produced more than 15 state chess champions from Delhi NCR!!! Chess coach of Bal Bharti School Delhi, Chandan sir has been a guiding spirit for GM Aryan Chopra & 2300 + rated Candidate master Garv Gaur from Haryana.
Sanjeevan Saraswat
Sanjeevan Sir has been Himachal chess champion twice. A Former Coach of Delhi University, NSIT and Delhi Govt. for SGFI Nationals, Sanjeevan sir has a vast experience to train kids right from beginners up to 2000 rating level. Sanjeevan sir has a FIDE rating of 1772 ELO.
Rakesh Ranjan
Rakesh Sir has produced many State Champions and National players. A 2200 plus rated player, he is a full time coach and specializes in remedial chess training classes.
Pushpender Kumar
Pushpendra Sir has been a pillar of strength for the practical play in our academy. He also provides playing practice sessions and help our students during post mortem analysis after the games. Pushpendra sir has a FIDE rating of 1743 ELO.
Neha Verma
Neha Ma'am is former Inter college Chess Champion from Delhi University. She has a FIDE rating of 1569 ELO. She is chess coach with DAV school and L.B. College, DU. She specializes in tactical vision training and middle game tactics training.
Rajender Kumar
Rajender sir is a chess coach in Darshan Academy school, Delhi. His FIDE rating is 1581 ELO. He specializes in teaching middle game concepts and the study of classical games of chess. He is one of the most effective trainer with us for intermediate level players.
Amita Negi
Former Inter college chess champion and Senior National Arbiter Amita Negi is a well known name in chess training field. She has been associated with Queens Mary school, Delhi Public school and Heritage school as chess coach. She has her unique way of teaching chess to beginner and intermediate level players.
Priya Kumari
Priya Ma'am is a go getter. She has constantly nurtured the teams of Bal Bharti school, Rohini and her teams always remains in top 3 in tournaments. She is a dedicated and hard working coach. She has a FIDE rating of 1471 ELO and she is also a Senior National Arbiter.
Bhavya Seth
Bhavya Seth is very hardworking coach with a zeal to improvement. He constantly studies chess daily for 5-6 hours for improving his own game as well as to prepare his students for the tournament. He specializes in advanced endgame training. He has a FIDE rating of 1658 ELO and he surely is going to become a a titled chess player very soon!
Harsh Kumar
Harsh Sir is the youngest coach in our academy. His FIDE rating is 1614 ELo points. Though he is only 19years old, his hard work and passion for teaching is exemplary. He is the most punctual coach with us. He is always there to solve the query of beginners, intermediate and senior students. He is a regular tournament player.
Shivam Chaudhary
Sanchita Yadav
Inderjeet Singh Mehta
Arpita
Stadru Sen
