Train with Purpose: How Goal-Based Coaching Works in Sensei
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When a chess player goes to a coach, it’s rarely just to play better. You go in with a purpose.
“I want to fix my opening prep.”
“I need help converting good positions into wins.”
“I keep blundering tactics — how do I stop that?”
At Sensei, we’ve taken that same principle — and built it into how our AI coaching works.
Because improvement isn’t random. It starts with a goal.
🎯 Choose Your Goals — and Let Sensei Do the Rest
When you start using Sensei, we ask you to pick up to three goals to focus on over the next 30 days.
You can choose from:
- Improve opening repertoire and knowledge
- Improve middle game accuracy
- Improve endgame technique
- Improve tactical awareness
- Improve positional play
Once your goals are set, Sensei will track your games, surface goal-specific feedback, and help you improve in a way that feels focused and clear.
🔍 What Happens Once You Set Your Goals?
Over the next 30 days, Sensei will:
- Analyze every game you play
- Surface mistakes, missed opportunities, and model examples related to your goals
- Highlight key positions where the principle (e.g. a tactic or positional plan) was followed — or violated
🎯 Example:
If you chose “Improve tactical awareness”, Sensei will:
- Call out every missed tactic in your games
- Show you examples of where the tactic was available and how to find it
- Reinforce your tactical pattern recognition over time
If you chose “Improve middle game accuracy”, Sensei will:
- Grade your middlegame decisions across games
- Highlight recurring positional or planning errors
- Provide feedback like: “You’re developing well, but struggle to create threats once the game stabilizes.”
📆 After 30 Days: The Sensei Check-In
At the end of your 30-day cycle, you’ll get a personalized performance check-in.
It includes:
- A goal-specific summary: “How have you done on tactical awareness over the last 30 days?”
- Accuracy trends across phases related to your goals
- A visual report of your strengths, blindspots, and progress
- Suggestions for whether to keep working on the same goals — or switch it up
It’s like a monthly evaluation — without needing to schedule a call.
🧠 Why This Matters
Most chess tools analyze the game — not the player. They tell you what happened, but not whether you’re growing.
With goal-based coaching, Sensei becomes your personalized trainer:
- Helping you stay focused
- Tracking your progress
- Giving you actionable, goal-aligned insights
- Holding you accountable
📌 Because mastery doesn’t come from random practice — it comes from focused repetition.
🚀 Ready to Train with Purpose?
- ✅ Set your goals
- ✅ Get feedback aligned to what you care about
- ✅ Track your progress
- ✅ Level up, one focused step at a time
Get started at SenseiChess.com and turn your goals into growth.