.. Unless, you regard, working towards a long-term goal, {with minimal-to-zero, tangible reward$} ; As worth your while ; Me thinks, that, you'd be arguably better off ; Advancing yourself ; In a Real world ; Career, sense. o:
Once again ; Little old, 67 year-old, retired 'moi'; Talking-the-walk. ..hah !
65Squares you need to get great coach + play on OTB + play with FM , IM and GM practice games.
Being a family man, and at a place where I am, the option to have a coach and play against Highly rated players is not likely. To compensate for this, I plan to play the GM games from good books by guessing each sides moves.
Your ceiling is not necessarily over IM strenght. Might be that you ceiling is 2200!? Thus, you might get get to 2100 if you devote some 6-8hrs per day to chess, for 6 years time. But then getting from 2100 to 2300 fide might take you 6-8 more years. It gets cumulatively harder to improve, ok?! If you didn't earlier in your life skyrocket from beginner to 2000+ in a couple of years, well that means you simply don't have the talent to become a titled player. Just aim to improve by 200 points steps upward every time. Enjoy chess but don't be diluted, most people have no clue as to how much an IM needed to work on his chess to get there.
Being a family man, and at a place where I am, the option to have a coach and play against Highly rated players is not likely. To compensate for this, I plan to play the GM games from good books by guessing each sides moves.
Then don't expect to get more than 2200.
Even 2000 would be a great achievment.
If u think just working on books (Yusupov's ones are perfect though) and some ressources is enough to get "strong", then u don't have a clue of how to improve at chess.
To improve : reading books (good ones, and in a good way, but fex know how to read a book in an efficient way), playing many tournaments (i mean real, OTB), analysing your games with "strong" players, going regularly in a chess club (once again, a real one, not a virtual).
U can have a coach who will help u : personnally i've never had a coach, but some coaching would have clearly helped me.
I aspire to be an IM rated player and plan to give it 6 years with detailed study of few resources.
I plan to use Yusupov series and few other books. I assume if I am able to complete Yusupov series, I should be a solid IM level player.
In parallel I plan to play active to make use of my learning.
What do you think is missing and please advice.