Training Schedule

The whole purpose of this group is for our members to grow in chess together. In order to accomplish this, I propose a training schedule built around topics that the members want to learn. We will need active participation in order to be successful. The training will consist of all parts of the game. We will move to the next topic as soon as we feel comfortable with the current one. This is the idea I have, but I need your contributions and ideas. 

First things first, we need some topics to start with.

here's my idea. all the strong players will have the role of the coach. they can play a max of 5 games at once with the weaker members and after the game they can show the person what they did wrong ect..

I think this is a great idea. As far as topics go maybe a specific endgame or opening or middlegame theme? Something like isolated queen pawn, or backward pawns or weak squares around the king.

you have to understand tough that weaker players wont have a clue on what you're talking about. they wont really know about the different themes or different openings ect. what weaker players struggle to understand is the value of pieces when they're at a certain position so stuff like that needs to be taught :)

Very true, also i think one of the biggest things we need to focus on is how to find a plan in a given position. I always have problems with that, and apparently it is very important.

For the opening my idea is that, after we all pick an opening that we want to experiment with, we set up a team match that starts in the position we selected. All we need is an opening to start with.

Another thing we need to do is for our members to pick a mentor and follow aaron917's idea. This will more than likely be the best middlegame training. After this is done, we can make a bracket, or something of the sort, and go from there.

For the endgame, I think we need to use computer analysis. We can pick a specific endgame, post the winning line, and thoroughly discuss it together. 

What I also need is a basic outline for a training schedule. We need to figure out how long we want to spend on each subject and so on. The elements I have thought of are openings, endgames, tactics, matches, guess the next move of a master game, video and discussion, article reviews, and book reviews. Do you have some more? I think this covers a large portion of chess. Openings, tactics, endgames, and matches need to be thrown in more ofter than others probably.

Im hopeless with time budgeting, so i cant really help you there

It's not necessarily time budgeting. It's more of training budgeting. Out of the things I listed, what are the ones that you want to study more than others?

I like the geuss the move idea, Openings probably wont be that helpful, and tactics seem useful too. Also my endgames are awful so definitely some of them.

Also the mentor idea is pretty cool, except we dont really have any strong players.

I'm trying to fix that. I'm not having any luck right now though. 

I would like to open up our training by a thorough examination of the following game.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1334664&kpage=7#reply164

Should we create a forum topic for it?

Yes. If this is something you would be willing to start with.

By the way, that game isnt real, though it is hilarious, as are the annotations. it was compsed by Hans Kmoch, a friend of Nimzowitch:

Nimzowitsch's vanity and faith in his ideas of overprotection provoked Hans Kmoch to write a parody about him in February 1928 in the Wiener Schachzeitung. This consisted of a mock game against the fictional player "Systemsson", supposedly played and annotated by Nimzowitsch himself. The annotations gleefully exaggerate the idea of overprotection, as well as asserting the true genius of the wondrous idea. Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.^[13]

Kmoch also wrote an article about his nine years with Nimzowitsch:^[14]

Nimzovich suffered from the delusion that he was unappreciated and that the reason was malice. All it took to make him blossom, as I later learned, was a little praise. His paranoia was most evident when he dined in company. He always thought he was served much smaller portions than everyone else. He didn't care about the actual amount but only about the imagined affront. I once suggested that he and I order what the other actually wanted and, when the food was served, exchange plates. After we had done so, he shook his head in disbelief, still thinking that he had received the smaller portion.

Nimzovitsch's colleague Tartakower observed of him, "He pretends to be crazy in order to drive us all crazy.

An instructive example of overprotection can be found here:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102392

This was quite probably the inspiration behind Kmoch's parody.

I just picked a random master game with annotations. Let's start with the one you posted and while we are at it we might as well have a discussion about overprotection. Here is another game that utilizes overprotection:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1001629

Might be useful for geuss the move, though i havnt looked through them yet.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?user=Anatoly21