Next Level Training - Day 2 - Structure
In the 2nd day of the Next Level Training course I studied about the structure of the course and how to study the course to get the best result.
Most of us chess players do not know what to do, and our chess studies are unstructured and random. We are investing a lot of time, but not seeing a lot of results.
The Next Level Training course help us to develop a structured training. We will know which things to do and How to do them with great focus.
We will use Less time than before, but we will get bigger results.
The course instructure Grandmaster Noël Studer wants to help us to know what we should study, and which resources are really worth our time and money. Also He will show us amazing free resources and teach us how to use them.
At the end of the course we will have our own chess training plan which we can follow.
We will develop the skill to create a new plan, if we need one because our playing strength went to the next level. We will also be able to find the right resources.
This course will give us a training blueprint not only for the next month, but for years for our full chess career.
We get also access for the Discord community when Grandmaster Noël Studer will answer our questions.
There we can also ask questions from like minded people who also study this course.
We may find there also a new training partner or can talk about chess improvement methods.
This course is about effective chess training.
Being effective means to say no to a lot of things, to really nearly everything.
We need to apply this also to our chess resources. We may have resources which are not recommended in the course. They may be good ones, but did not pass the test of Grandmaster Noël Studer.
He wants to keep the resources as simple and as short as possible.
He does not want to overwhelm us with too many good books.
He tried to make as many decisions as possible for us.
He believes the course has the best possible resource.
If we do not find our favorite resource in this course, he suggests we try his recommendation and we may find it a little bit better.
The course is on teachable. In the next video He showed the structure of the course:
Chapter 1: Introduction, Improvement Mindset
✅How this course is built, order of study
✅How you will get the most out of the course
Chapter 2: How To Study Anything
✅Improvement Expectations vs Reality
✅Avoid the Biggest Risk
✅Get Better Quality in Anything you Do
✅Learn how to increase your Focus
✅Create great habits & remove bad ones
Chapter 3: How To Study Chess
✅How Chess improvement actually works
✅Difference between Learning & Improving
Chapter 4: How To Study Tactics
✅Learn the 5 Steps to Mastery
✅How to use Lichess Tactics the right way
✅Get a great Book and solve the exercises to maximise your improvement
✅Learn from your mistakes and categorize them (right!)
Chapter 5: How To Study Positional Chess
✅Focus only on the most important Positional Concepts
✅Apply these concepts in game by asking the right questions
✅Why you should NEVER consult an engine to learn positional chess
✅Get a short list of amazing books & courses that will cover ALL you need to learn about positional & strategic chess
Chapter 6: How To Study Openings
✅The practical Opening Mindset
✅Use Lichess Studies (FREE!) to create your own Repertoire
✅Great FREE mini-courses & resources to start your opening journey
✅Learn how to improve your openings after playing a game
✅Get a list of recommended Openings for Beginners, Positional Players & attacking players
✅The best opening courses & how you study them in the most effective way possible
Chapter 7: How To Study Endgames
✅Get the ONLY book/course you need up to 2200 for Endgame Theory
✅Learn how to study endgame books & courses
✅Learn the endgame principles you need & leave out everything else
Chapter 8: Improve By Playing Training Games
✅Learn which Time Controls really help you improve
✅How to use Training games against friends to get real game practice
✅How to focus during training games and get more out of them
✅Fun challenges to make training games more close to “real” games
Chapter 9: How To Analyze Your Games
✅How to learn from your mistakes by focusing on key moments
✅The differences in analyzing Classical, Rapid & Blitz Games
✅Learn from how I analyze my own games
Chapter 10: Construct Your Training Plan
✅Learn the traits of a training plan you can stick to: Specific, plausible, simple
✅Apply the one-third Rule to your personal training plan
✅Simplify your training by only getting GREAT resources
✅Avoid being overwhelmed by proudly leaving 99% out
✅ACTION TIME: Improve your chess by following your newly curated training plan
He suggests having a 100% completion rate and studying the course from video to video starting with the first one and not skipping any of the videos.
There will be some complementary texts in the top of the video which he suggests reading to deepen the knowledge.
Sometimes at the bottom of the video there will be downloadable pdfs or documents to supplement the video.
Chapter 2: How To Study Anything
✅Improvement Expectations vs Reality
✅Avoid the Biggest Risk
✅Get Better Quality in Anything you Do
✅Learn how to increase your Focus
✅Create great habits & remove bad ones
In the beginning of the course there will be Chapter 2, about how to study anything.
It will build the important fundamentals to help us to study chess in a very effective way.
Very important to study this one first and deep. It may be the most important chapter of the whole course. It helps to learn how to focus better, how to increase the quality of our training and how to create our own chess zone.
Chapter 3: How To Study Chess
✅How Chess improvement actually works
✅Difference between Learning & Improving
In this section he will teach us his ideas about improving in chess and about the difference between Learning and Improving
Then in the next chapters he will show how to study the different aspects of chess, how to play training games and how to analyze your games.
Chapter 4: How To Study Tactics
✅Learn the 5 Steps to Mastery
✅How to use Lichess Tactics the right way
✅Get a great Book and solve the exercises to maximise your improvement
✅Learn from your mistakes and categorize them (right!)
Chapter 5: How To Study Positional Chess
✅Focus only on the most important Positional Concepts
✅Apply these concepts in game by asking the right questions
✅Why you should NEVER consult an engine to learn positional chess
✅Get a short list of amazing books & courses that will cover ALL you need to learn about positional & strategic chess
Chapter 6: How To Study Openings
✅The practical Opening Mindset
✅Use Lichess Studies (FREE!) to create your own Repertoire
✅Great FREE mini-courses & resources to start your opening journey
✅Learn how to improve your openings after playing a game
✅Get a list of recommended Openings for Beginners, Positional Players & attacking players
✅The best opening courses & how you study them in the most effective way possible
Chapter 7: How To Study Endgames
✅Get the ONLY book/course you need up to 2200 for Endgame Theory
✅Learn how to study endgame books & courses
✅Learn the endgame principles you need & leave out everything else
Chapter 8: Improve By Playing Training Games
✅Learn which Time Controls really help you improve
✅How to use Training games against friends to get real game practice
✅How to focus during training games and get more out of them
✅Fun challenges to make training games more close to “real” games
Chapter 9: How To Analyze Your Games
✅How to learn from your mistakes by focusing on key moments
✅The differences in analyzing Classical, Rapid & Blitz Games
✅Learn from how I analyze my own games
In the final chapter we will be able to create our own training plan.
Chapter 10: Construct Your Training Plan
✅Learn the traits of a training plan you can stick to: Specific, plausible, simple
✅Apply the one-third Rule to your personal training plan
✅Simplify your training by only getting GREAT resources
✅Avoid being overwhelmed by proudly leaving 99% out
✅ACTION TIME: Improve your chess by following your newly curated training plan
Every Chapter created a way it can be studied on its own, but He suggested that we study everything in order to get the most benefit from it. That way we will have all the knowledge, ideas and resources to create training plans and improve chess in the coming years and decades even.
That is why it is important to go from A to Z and not jump around.
First study the course fully and later if we need to refresh the knowledge of an aspect then we can jump and study that chapter again.
The sections are named logically, for example we can find the resources always in the final section of each chapter.
Also if we go to the Create your own training plan section there we will find the overview of all the resources in one place.
If we have questions, then we can always ask it in the discord server.
He hopes we will enjoy this course and suggest us the apply what we study.
If we apply what we study then we will see a big difference in our chess.
How to get the most out of this course
In the next video Grandmaster Noël Studer explains the most important ideas to follow to get the most benefit from the course.
We should study this course actively to get the most and get our chess to the Next Level.
He offers us the blueprint for chess training and improvement, but we need to apply it to work.
We need to put our part of the process to get to the new level. He created a great course, but also we need to put in maximum effort when we study it.
How can we actively study the course?
We can take notes to a paper or to a document. We can write down what is interesting for us. We can write down what we want to change in our study routine.
We need to think about what we hear. If something does not make sense, we need to ask: Why is this? How does it work? How can I make sense of that? Should I ask a question on the discord server?
We should make sure to understand the things and apply them.
Important to try things out and look how is it working for us. If it is not working, then we should ask in the discord community where Grandmaster Noël Studer or other members who had the same challenge can help us.
We should take care of our own destiny!
Grandmaster Noël Studer can not do the work instead of us. He gives us the blueprint, but need to APPLY it.
Trust the coach
Every coach has a little difference approach. He suggest to take the things and apply them. He had a more than 5 years professional career, before he had 12 years of chess improvement as a student.
He writes on his own blog and he coaches players. He is in contact with many chess improvers. If He tells us to do a thing in a certain way, there is a reason for it. We need to trust him and see what gets out of it.
He thinks if we apply it what he teaches, then we will see big differences.
- We will have more fun
- We will be more motivated, because we will now how to do things.
- Not feeling overwhelmed anymore
- Know what resources to use
- How to study them
We will see the difference in the strengths and quality of our moves and that will translate also to better results.
He offered us to make a deal: He put the best possible content and we need to study the course attentively and apply what we study. At the end He and also we will be happy because our chess goes to the Next Level.
In the next day I will start to study the chapter about how to study anything. Study methods which will help us not only study chess better, but study any other subject much more effectively.
I think the most important message of the day is to Study actively and apply what you study. Please use this in your next training session!
I decided to accept new students. If you would like to study with me please send me an email to attilaturzo@gmail.com where you write about your chess history and chess goals.
See you tomorrow!
Attila Turzo
International Master
