FM Ratkovic Petar

Petar Ratkovic (28 years) from Serbia

Professional chess coach
FIDE Rating: 2302
FIDE Master title achieved in 2024
Beside chess, Legal Trainee (Graduated Faculty of Law at University of Belgrade in 2021)

I started to play chess at the age of 6
My father taught me how to play, with my 2 brothers. Both of them are now professional players and coaches, Grandmaster Miloje Ratkovic and International Master Milovan Ratkovic.
For many years I have been participating in various tournaments in Serbia and abroad.

During the last years I have been working with many students (Currently working with 15 students)
Ages and chess knowledge are not important at all.
The most important thing is to be motivated to work on chess and the progress is inevitable. 📈

Also, I have been organizing, with my brothers, rated chess tournaments in Serbia (standard, rapid and blitz).

I graduated Faculty of Law at University of Belgrade (2021). Degree international law.⚖️
For the last year, I have been working in Law Office as Legal Trainee.

Opening Systems/ Repertoire Building✅

Making concrete plan in the game✅

Instructions of proper using of time during the game✅

How to fight in the worse position ✅

Preparations for the games (direct preparations for the tournament opponents)✅

🔹My practice is to check the knowledge of each student in the first lesson, so that we can come up with a plan for progress together.

🔹Throughout the lessons, we will cover all the most important parts of the game.

🔹Together, we will build an opening repertoire that we will later rebuild on throughout the lessons. The student will always have the opportunity to check previously completed openings.

🔹Endings are also a very important segment of the game. We will start with the most basic pawn endings and later we will work on other more complicated endings. Of course, If I see that the student knowledge is on higher level, we skip basic level and go on higher one.

🔹Also, during the lessons, we will always allocate time to solve tactical problems, as well as strategic positions that are an indispensable part of progress.

🔹Another very important thing is the analysis of the student's games. Together, through analysis and discussion, we will identify the weaknesses of the game and, of course, try to eliminate them.

🔹At the end of each lesson, student will get the homework based on 20 strategical and tactical positions to solve.📖

🔹For long term students, I am checking the knowledge and improvement by giving them 1-2 times per month a test based on various positions, with time limit. On that way we can see how does progress go.📈