OTB Study Plan (calculation focused)

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I have to admit that I only did 1 week of the custom OTB study plan Matt created for me before abandoning it due to life circumstances.

However, I did manage to finish the last Yusupov book since my last log. However, it seems I skipped the 4 opening chapters from the 2nd to last book. Lol. Almost, almost.

Now I'm ready to start a new plan and I'll be playing OTB once a week on Thursday nights.

Here is the basis for the plan I created after reading some of "How to study chess on your own":

Goals: Minimize blunders, improve candidate moves, calculation resistance, improve prophylaxis
Duration: 2 months (3 months may be necessary?)
Available time: 1.5 hours per day

Study areas:
Openings: review condensed repertoire on Chessable
Tactics: Overcoming resistance in calculation, candidate moves, opponent’s resources
Endgames: Endgame studies
Middlegames: Structures
General Improvement: Improve thought process, focus/stamina

Key study areas: Blunders, Calculation

Study resources & methods:
Openings: Review - condensed repertoire lines

Tactics:
Watch - Chess24 calculation video
Solve - exercises from Recognizing Your Opponent’s Resources
Solve - chess.com tactics
Solve blind - Visualization courses

Endgames: Solve blind - studies from Blindfold Endgame Visualization

Middlegames: Read - Chess Structures

General Improvement:
Simulation - games from Dynamic Decision Making in Chess
Light Analysis - simulated games comparing to book annotations
Deep Analysis - Analyze OTB games

Avatar of Mouratovsky

Hey, great plan. One question: why the chess24 calculation course?

Avatar of SmarterChess

As ptSmooth would say, LFG!

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RaymondL2007 wrote:

Solid plan!

Thanks!

Mouratovsky wrote:

Hey, great plan. One question: why the chess24 calculation course?

I like the idea of having some resource to watch. This specific course is even mentioned in the book, which reminded me that I've wanted to study it for many years. I don't really have it scheduled in my tentative weekly plan(s) so I need to be careful not to "save" it for too long and work it in when/if I feel like switching something up a bit.

SmarterChess wrote:

As ptSmooth would say, LFG!

Yeah!