Dan is an award-winning chess full-time instructor in Wynnewood PA.  He is a US Chess Federation National Master (NM) and a FIDE Candidate Master (CM). Among Dan's 1,000+ private students was radio personality Howard Stern. Starting in 2021, there is a annual Dan Heisman Award for Excellence in Chess Instruction awarded by the US Chess Federation. Dan is an author and Youtube creator.

Dan will always try to make time for a new student, & can usually answer brief questions from students AND non-students. Use his contact page, call directly by phone (610-649-0750 - landline; can't text), Skype "danheisman", or email danheisman@comcast.net (you can also always email by clicking on the envelope icon at the top of every page). Each section title below is a link or use my pull-down menus above.
I am limiting myself to 2-3 lessons/day but I am still able to squeeze in almost all new students within a few days.

​Chess Lessons​

Instruction - Training - Mentoring. All ages & levels. At Dan's home or via internet (use Skype or Zoom to share a board anywhere!) ​Full-time since 1994 - Let me help you become a better player! Check out my Top Junior Program.

Articles, Columns, Blogs

Hundreds of articles on a variety of chess topics including Dan's Chess.com articles and blogs. Note: I have tried to remove all Chess Cafe/Novice Nook links since they no longer went to the associated columns.

Videos

Dan's instructional videos from the ICC, Chess.com television shows & his YouTube Channel (340+ videos); The video "Different Ways to Make Better Moves" won the 2021 award for Best Instruction Lesson Online by the CJA; A Thought Process Overview won in 2023.  These 340+ videos cover all aspects of improvement!

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For links other than Lessons, Articles, and Videos, navigate with the pull-down menus at the top of the page.

• Hahn and Heisman Homepage includes Dan's non-chess articles and links, info on wife Shelly, son Delen, existential threats, etc
• Dan's Chess Tip of the Day on Twitter - over 4,000 chess tips since 2009! This has won the 2021 and 2023 awards for Best Twitter Feed from the Chess Journalists of America (Award #65 here). Expanded tips soon to be a book from Everyman!
• Like the website? Please consider a donation to one of Dan's two charities to help 1) Women in need and 2) Junior chess
• Holly Heisman Memorial Chess charity tournament - usually OTB in the Philadelphia area in ~Oct each year
• Podcast links:  

1. 2022 podcast with NM Evan Rabin for Premier Chess; 
2. podcasts about thought process with Dan Lona of Adult Chess Academy, and 
3. club player thought process mistakes also with Dan Lona

• Interview links: 

1.  I have been getting excellent feedback on my interview on the Perpetual Chess Podcast with Ben Johnson &
2. streamed interview with Jacob Fortuna, and
3. third interview, this time with Rob Soul.

Broken Links: The Chess Cafe links (e.g. Novice Nooks) are NOT broken; it's just that Chess Cafe is no longer serving them for free. However, if you find a broken link, please email me (or click the "envelope" on the top of this page) with the specifics: URL of the page, location of the broken link within the page, and wording of the link - thanks!