Training routine

Hi 

I aam Vicente, from Spain, a very weak 57 years old chess player.

Have began to learn and would like to share my training routine. I am almost sure it can be improved.

Every day: 30 minutes tacttics problems, one beginner video lesson.

Twice a week: Live slow chess game, al analyzed.Eny sugestion on how to improve it?

Thanks

Vicente

Especially as a beginner, 30 minutes of tactics is a lot. It is more important to focus on the themes and patterns at play when learning tactics; quality over quantity. If you are naturally energetic about chess, then by all means play a lot if you like. However, I'd recommend less tactics, but to stay with the amounts daily. Getting into a routine is more beneficial than long bursts. 

p.s. If I feel like doing tactics a lot one day, then I might play for 30 minutes; but my "daily routine" of tactics consists of the perhaps only five or ten minutes of tactics. Puzzle Rush on chess.com can be instructional too, but since it is timed: Puzzle Rush is mostly pattern recognition. 

Thanks a lot for your answer. I will consider reducing the time I dedicate to tactics.

Besides that, chess is not only tactics, May anybody recommend me any way to improve my strategy/plans?

Thnks again

Vicente

At the beginner level of chess (sub 1200-ish, perhaps even 1400 or 1500 if you ask a sadistic player), strategy is almost non-existent. Sure, it is still present: but it is overshadowed by the constant positional blunders by each side  Learning tactical motifs will help improve your rating far faster early on. 

However, the best way to learn "strategy" (when you get there) is probably simply chess study and learning positional themes and motifs like how one learns tactics. In tactical puzzles a motif might be something like a "fork", "pin", or "deflection" - a more positional motif might resemble something like "Doubled Rooks", how to best handle various pawns (e.g. passed pawns, isolated pawns, backward pawns) or perhaps even a well-timed "exchange sacrifice" (although that last one might also be tactical in nature depending on the context). 

Strategy comes more from practice, pattern recognition and intuition. Another good way to learn positional strategy is through endgame studies; most of these are quite positionally strategic in nature.

Hope this helps

I have the best chess routines in the world. I learned to move the chess pieces year 2009 as an adult. Now I am an expert or even stronger than an expert. But one little problem, I do chess almost daily which many of you just can't because of busy life.

30 min tactics a day for a beginner is not excessive, provided that it it is e very day.  There  are  a little over a dozen tactical themes.  You can learn all types first or concentrate on one theme at a time.  One technique you can use is called the woodpecker method, in which you repeat the same problem over and over, even after you learn it.  So let's say for your session you did 10 problems.  Tomorrow you do the same 10 and everyday after, till you see the idea at a glance.  It does work.  Comes from the book, pump up your rating.

Thanks a lot. I am confortable with the 30 minutes a day routine, have not failed a single day. I find it funny.

I am now looking for a book to complement the tactics exercises,

Download forward chess app from play store.  Then download free sample of Pump  Up Your Chess Rating.  Go to free chapter.  Woodpecker method.

Do not ignore strategy. Do not believe the rubbish said by wannabe coaches and published on amateur chess websites that tactics is more important than strategy. Practice tactics a lot and you will develop the style of a trickster that will be difficult to change. Strategy is the foundation of chess and is more important than everything even for beginners.

a chess player grows as a child does. it needs years living in chess routines, training thinking and playing normal situations. for example if you train 30 minutes in tactics you are living 30 seconds of chess as the neural nerve can endure if you are from east countries and about 60 secs if you are from the west. so it needs much time for you to really grow your child weak person.