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), Microsoft Teams "danheisman", or email [email protected] (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 able to schedule all new students within a few days.
Special Offer: A half-price lesson to all new students who purchase my new book Maximize Your Chess Potential
Starting May 2025, my internet lessons will be via Microsoft Teams, or Zoom.
My goal: "To help as many chess players improve as much as possible, either through direct lessons or through my works such as my Youtube channel, my books, my Chess Tip of the Day, my columns/articles, etc."
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), Microsoft Teams "danheisman", or email [email protected] (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 able to schedule all new students within a few days.
Special Offer: A half-price lesson to all new students who purchase my new book Maximize Your Chess Potential
Starting May 2025, my internet lessons will be via Microsoft Teams, or Zoom.
My goal: "To help as many chess players improve as much as possible, either through direct lessons or through my works such as my Youtube channel, my books, my Chess Tip of the Day, my columns/articles, etc."
Chess LessonsInstruction - Training - Mentoring. All ages & levels. At Dan's home or via internet (use Teams 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.
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Articles, Columns, BlogsHundreds of articles on a variety of chess topics including Dan's Chess.com articles and blogs. Note: I removed all Chess Cafe/Novice Nook links since they no longer go to the associated columns.
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VideosDan'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 380+ 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.
2) Discussing thought process with Dan Lona of Adult Chess Academy, and
3) Club player thought process mistakes with Dan Lona
4) Podcast about 6 of my chess books & how they help you improve also with Dan Lona - well received!
5) I have been getting excellent feedback on my interview on the Perpetual Chess Podcast with Ben Johnson & and a second Perpetual Chess Podcast on our Chessable Course on Counting & other issues in 2024
6) Nov 2024 two+ hour podcast interview as guest with host, coach Dr. Can
2) Second 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!
- 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 PopularChess ~July 2025!
- 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
- NM Laura Smith and I have a Chessable course introducing the Counting tactic; starts very easy but then...
- Podcast links:
2) Discussing thought process with Dan Lona of Adult Chess Academy, and
3) Club player thought process mistakes with Dan Lona
4) Podcast about 6 of my chess books & how they help you improve also with Dan Lona - well received!
5) I have been getting excellent feedback on my interview on the Perpetual Chess Podcast with Ben Johnson & and a second Perpetual Chess Podcast on our Chessable Course on Counting & other issues in 2024
6) Nov 2024 two+ hour podcast interview as guest with host, coach Dr. Can
- Interview links:
2) Second 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!