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agatti1970
Aug 17, 2025
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Hi, I've put together a checklist of "things to do" and what to check before moving, etc, after several lessons taken with my coach. I had the idea of playing training games here (rapid time control), having such list next to me.

I'm wondering if anybody has tried this, if any improvements have been observed.

The checklist is supposed to have the "10 most important" things to pay attention to. It's an handcrafted list, obviously can't be perfect.

I'm anyway interested to know if this method has been tried by someone for a sufficiently long period and what the outcome.

Thanks

AG
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1AncientConcavenator
Aug 17, 2025
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I think It’d help, but you’d most likely want to have the goal of mentally ingrain it to your play until that list is just second nature
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Josh11live
Aug 17, 2025
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Just keep on doing the checklist until it just registers in your head
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agatti1970
Aug 17, 2025
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Thanks guys, it does make sense, and in fact the idea is to really embrace those "rules" until I follow them strategically and tactically, without the need of the checklist next to me.

In an attempt of "perfecting the list" I soon realised that the perfect list doesn't exist. It would be too long, too complex, and every new item seems more important than those already in the list.

So I'm trying to keep it max. a page long, so I can keep it next to me.

Thanks.