What % of time to devote to play vs study as a beginner?

I know this thread is old but still...

For a contrary view, see GM Avetik Grigoryan's blog post "The Myth About Chess Tactics and Solving Chess Puzzles" (also on the Chessmood blog). According to Grigoryan, the importance of tactics is overrated and the importance of strategy underrated, especially at the lower levels. One reason is that the chess engines you use to analyse your games can point out tactics that you overlooked but don't say anything about positional mistakes. (The blog post contains several examples.) As a consequence, you think your tactical skills are weak and you improve them while neglecting positional play and strategy. And of course, there are many tactical puzzles and far fewer positional puzzles.

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This place seems a little bit too weird

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This question has been asked before. See, for example, sholom90's answer to the question "percentage of time spent in play versus study" (Feburary 2022):

"FWIW, noted long-time chess instructor NM Dan Heisman has the following on his website:

Breakdown of How to Best Use your Chess Time to Improve (all are rough approximations and vary by student and need):

Play ~55% of your chess time; Study 45%:"

See the "lessons" page on Dan Heisman's website.

you're not getting grandmaster so it doesn't matter.

Avetik Gregoyan's blog post How to get better at chess: The 3-step formula and the secret sauce doesn't give percentages of time to spend on playing versus studying. Instead, he recommends playing a game as soon as you have learnt something new, so you can apply it.

I think it depends on time control, too. A 3+2 game will almost certainly have at least one position worth analyzing for at least 10 minutes, so with faster time control I'd say more time studying. While a 15+10 game might be analyzed in less than the time it took to play.