Chess improvement: wanting critiques

This is a long post, so I don't expect many will read it.

To define the subcomponents of chess play, I created an equation. Imo:

chess = game rules + basic principles + tactics + positional strategy/midgame + endgame + opening + personal strategy + tournament strategy

Each component defined:

1. game rules = piece movement/board set up
2. basic principles = basic guidelines/strategies (piece "value", opening goals, etc) 
3. tactics = restructuring the subconsious mind into more efficient pattern matching/recognition in chess move combinations
4. positional strategy/midgame = goals/principles governing placement of pieces, strengths/weaknessess of different situtations, piece synergies
5. endgame = broad in scope: contains its own positional strategy and tactics, goals, won/lost games, draws
6. opening = learning opening move sequences, goals of each opening, transpositions
7. personal strategy = guiding the game into situations where you know you are strong, and avoiding those where you are weak; doing the opposite with respect to your opponents strengths/weaknesses - includes open vs closed games
8. tournament strategy = broad in scope: from lifestyle habits to specific study prepartations to time controls/constraints - includes some psychology for human play/interaction

The components are listed from the left to the right in increasing order of chess skill. There is some overlap between terms. One would begin learning positional strategy/midgame before mastering tactics, but well after being very good at tactics (better than most low-mid level players think they are, imo).

Thus, my personal improvement strategy:

game rules + basic principles (already accomplished)

• Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition - Josh Waitzkin's Academy lessons

tactics

• Rapid Chess Improvement by Michael de la Maza, and Ct-Art 3 (or 4)
• Tactics puzzles while not at a computer (iChess android app by Asim Pereira)

positional strategy/midgame

• How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
• Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition - Josh Waitzkin's Academy lessons
• Study master games

endgame

• Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition - Josh Waitzkin's Academy lessons
• Study master games
• (Need more sources)

opening

• (Need more sources)

personal strategy

• A chess coach
• (Need more sources)

tournament strategy

• A chess coach
• (Need more sources)

Note that my personal improvement strategy includes never stopping tactics training, and constant chess play, including both quick online games for practice, and long correspondance games for experience. Long games will be analyzed using Shivsky's method here:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/what-is-the-right-way-to-use-fritzenginesdatabases-to-look-at-your-games 

The goal is mastery of each component; the bullet points are tools to help achieve mastery. Let's say I'm reading a pawn structure book. The process I would follow is:

1. Reading that book several times (gaining knowledge)
2. Studying master games to see the concepts applied (internalizing knowledge)
3. Playing my own long games (applying knowledge)
4. Analyzing my own long games (critiquing results)
5. Repeating the process as many times as necessary

I realize it will not be this simple, as I will need many more learning tools for each component, but it is a start.

Thoughts/ideas? Serious critiques? Epic rants about wanting the last few minutes of your lives back?

Where's the fun?

Dump all of that stuff and start picking apart your losses. Figure out why you lost. Figure out and catalog your own tactical mistakes. Keep a chess log. But have fun! Don't make it so much work. Check out this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4uI5vSkaYU&list=PL79BB8BB4FB3B363E

Also find chess books you enjoy, and instead of quickly reading them to "improve," savor your time with them, take it slow, enjoy every minute with it.