The one rule that I hope all would agree to is that (other than Shaji and myself), only those who are ready to put into action what they suggest should be part of this group - meaning only active mentors. My reasoning is simple - you tend to give better practical suggestions when you foresee yourself having to follow it.

To get the ball rolling I have following suggestion to make (I have already mentioned it earlier to some of the members here). In short following is my plan:

1. There will be N number of mentors.

2. Each mentor will have about 4 to 10 students under him.

3. Each mentor will use his/her own methods to improve the chess playing skills of students.

4. There will be matches between the team of mentors.

5. The students will move from one mentor to another after some (let us say 4) months. This will help in keeping the atmosphere friendly and also better learning.

This is the kind of structure I have in mind. But we can have something entirely different. But we need to be convinced right from day 1 of start of mentoring that our efforts will result in improvement. Therefore we should have some discussions between us as to what overall methods we should follow. After we start, each mentor follows his own style but remains withing the framework of initially agreed plan.

TI Gurukulam

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