Training schedule: How have you organized your training schedule? What have you learned that works for you and what doesn't work for you?
Goal setting and weekly progress: How do you identify your goals and check your progress towards them on a weekly basis?
Let's discuss and if you are stuck on something related to the above, ask for help so that we can elaborate and improve together.
1. Training Schedule: My main training schedule changes very often but what I've discovered over time is no matter what my training schedule is one fact remains: I need to play games.
a typical plan for me is as such:
a. tactic warm ups
b. play 1-3 games playing and reviewing *and* documenting if i am feeling diligent
c. doing *some kind* of additional study (chess network instructional games, opening study on chessable, or god forbid a book haha for example, etc)
2. I personally know I've made progress if I have put in my game requirements. Right now I ignore all the noise of elo going up and down and only focus on the number of games i've played the last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, and 1 year. My current goal is to hit 2000 and based on looking at the data of the rate of progress, I really need to be playing a minimum of 3 games a day. So if i see less than 21 games over a 7 day period i know i'm not putting in the work. Obviously you can look at elo to see if you are progressing, but just ask yourself, have you ever played 500 games of chess and not gotten stronger? for most people, simply playing is the answer. Other's who don't review their games might need to start doing that.
This is sort of the surface of what kicks my personal chess development in high gear. Would love to hear more training plans others have!
Thread by: @hhart10k
Let's discuss and if you are stuck on something related to the above, ask for help so that we can elaborate and improve together.
1. Training Schedule: My main training schedule changes very often but what I've discovered over time is no matter what my training schedule is one fact remains: I need to play games.
a typical plan for me is as such:
a. tactic warm ups
b. play 1-3 games playing and reviewing *and* documenting if i am feeling diligent
c. doing *some kind* of additional study (chess network instructional games, opening study on chessable, or god forbid a book haha for example, etc)
2. I personally know I've made progress if I have put in my game requirements. Right now I ignore all the noise of elo going up and down and only focus on the number of games i've played the last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, and 1 year. My current goal is to hit 2000 and based on looking at the data of the rate of progress, I really need to be playing a minimum of 3 games a day. So if i see less than 21 games over a 7 day period i know i'm not putting in the work. Obviously you can look at elo to see if you are progressing, but just ask yourself, have you ever played 500 games of chess and not gotten stronger? for most people, simply playing is the answer. Other's who don't review their games might need to start doing that.
This is sort of the surface of what kicks my personal chess development in high gear. Would love to hear more training plans others have!