That's very cool and comprehensive, thank you very much. I will definitely have to start playing longer games, as soon as I feel, there's nothing much more left to gain by playing 5+0 blitz, or maybe even concurrently, one 10 min game a day is perfectly doable.
I'm not doing any tactics and will have to start doing that as well again. I did some before, for a short period of time and it definitely helped, so I see from your writeup how it works if you do them properly and every day.
Thanks again, and good luck with your chess, the way you're going, you'll be winning those tournaments soon😊👍🤞
Now lets get back to the list. 1. Puzzles. I do them daily and I think I never skipped a day without doing atleast five puzzles. I do them either in the morning before I start my day or first time I get a chance to do them. Many times I was so busy that I haven't found time for them during a day so you could see me at 11.30 PM trying to solve chess puzzles with half of my brain sleeping xd. For puzzles I only use this site. They offer 3 rated puzzles, 1-2 personalized, one try at puzzle rush (3, 5 minute or survival) and later they added puzzle battle which is 3 minutes. At first I was able to do 10 puzzles in 5-10 minutes and only five of them were solved without a mistake. As my tactcis improved that number got higher. Right now on average I do 50-55 (3+2+30+20) in less than half an hour. Its not the best approach because I do them quickly and on instincts without thinking deeply or checking every possible line. Twice in a month when I have free time I try my best to solve them correctly by spending few minutes to find the solution. In my opinion anything is better than nothing. Sometimes I do less than fifty, sometimes I do more, it all depends on my mood, energy and amount of available free time. Also after I do a puzzle wrong, I always check what correct move was. 2. Play atleast one rapid game per day. Ten minutes per player with no increment so game can't last over 20 minutes. Most of them are finished in 15 minutes or less. 3. Analyze your own games. This site also offers very good analysis of your games. First game I played that day get analyzed wheter it was a win, draw or loss. There is something new to learn or get reminded of in every single game you play. Things I learn after analyzing - where book moves stopped (next time I know what to play and thats how I improve my opening knowledge step by step), was position out of opening good, bad or equal, were there any mistakes missed in the opening either by me or my opponent and is there something I need to change/work on|OPENINGS|, have I missed any tactic either for my opponent or me(again), was my plan good or bad and why (checking out interesting lines)|MIDDLEGAME|, is there anything I (or my opponent) missed during the game (again), was my evaluation about endgame correct or not and was my way of playing that endgame right or not |ENDGAMES|, there is also an option to find the best move after every inaccuracy, mistake or blunder of mine which I try to do by myself, I think it helps a lot, I sum up everything, at which point I lost/won the game or dropped the win/made a comeback, where I made most mistakes and from that I learn what to do/ what to avoid|OVERALL|. This takes five minutes. 4. Watching yt videos or twitch streames for 3-6 hours per week. I usually do that while I'm eating my meals or before I go to sleep. My favorite ones are gothamchess, agadmator, Ben Finegold, Hikaru and Daniel Naroditsky. All of them are both educational and fun to watch. I enjoy watching sub battles, guess the elo, speedruns, odd games, lessons and it doesn't have to be strictly instructional, but it has to be amusing. You won't believe how many things I have picked up from non-teaching videos/streams. If I ever struggle with something I will first check out does any of them already has it covered and only if not I try to look for that somewhere else. 5. Lessons here, one per week. I also used Magnus trainer app for two months, helped me a lot. And I read 160 pages of Silman's complete endgame course, borrowed that book from a friend. Thats pretty much it. I haven't yet spent any money on chess and the moment I do that I will consider myself serious about chess. That is the moment when I will start playing tournaments. I would say that I devoted on average somewhere between 30 and 75 minutes every day to chess depending on my free time.