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When you say coach what is the usual structure? Daily sessions or once x amount of days then doing "homework" in between
I think doing many lessons will help understand whats going on
If you are just starting out completely fresh, I would suggest going to a chess club on their instructional days. It is a lot more interesting when you have live instruction in the beginning. Once you can (more of less) play a legal game, then buy Majestic Chess (a PC program) and play thru its adventure mode (it is a video game where you learn about chess rules and strategies and go on quests).
Just an FYI (without knowing your age/maturity) 3-5 hr/day commitment is pretty serious for something you've never tried. So, I'd suggest taking easy, maybe 1-3 hr / week to start off. You don't want to be burned out before reaching the fun portion of chess.
If you follow myadvice , YMMV but give it an hour or 2 a week, you can reasonably expect to reach 1000 rating here in about 6 months. That means you'll be better than about 50% of the registered users (if I remember it correctly).
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try lucid dreaming, think of chess moves in your head before falling asleep... (it's fun and good against "brainconstipation")
Jun 18, 2017
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mgx9600 wrote:
If you are just starting out completely fresh, I would suggest going to a chess club on their instructional days. It is a lot more interesting when you have live instruction in the beginning. Once you can (more of less) play a legal game, then buy Majestic Chess (a PC program) and play thru its adventure mode (it is a video game where you learn about chess rules and strategies and go on quests).
Just an FYI (without knowing your age/maturity) 3-5 hr/day commitment is pretty serious for something you've never tried. So, I'd suggest taking easy, maybe 1-3 hr / week to start off. You don't want to be burned out before reaching the fun portion of chess.
If you follow myadvice , YMMV but give it an hour or 2 a week, you can reasonably expect to reach 1000 rating here in about 6 months. That means you'll be better than about 50% of the registered users (if I remember it correctly).
THIS is excellent advice. Both on chess.com and as a high school chess coach, p;ayers that get too enthusiastic about chess are the ones who don't last long: they burn out too quickly.
I thought of that yesterday at my 9 year-old nephew's birthday party. He is an elite baseball player and plays on his league's traveling team that practices or plays at least two days per week all year - including during 20 degree F days during our Maryland winter. His team has games in multiple states: Pennsylvania, Virginia, all across Maryland, etc. He told me he might play something else next spring besides baseball: he's getting burned out. He also plays rec. league soccer and basketball - but they are seasonal and he wants to stick with them.
So build up your commitment to chess prudently. Personally, I'd love to be playing 20 daily games simultaneously instead of the 5 I have now, but I have too many other irons in the fires right now and I don't want to burn myself out.
BTW, if anybody does but Majestic Chess, remember to use compatibility mode.
If you read its Amazon reviews, all the 1-star reviews (which there are many) complain about unable to run the program. It is an old program so compatibility mode is needed.
Thank you for all your advice. The reason I've set such a high time allocation per day is because I'm currently on summer break and have way too much free time. When I'm learning something new I like to gather as much knowledge as I can, and so far I've been doing tactics/lessons on this site for about 3 hours unknowingly today. Chess is such a deep game I feel like there's always new things to be learning even with that large amount of time. I usually know when I'm burning myself out and have developed methods to deal with it but the main reason I suffer from loss of interest is loss of material and chess is filled with it.
Go to chess.com and search coaches and they will teach ya
Have fun 
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Seirawan stuff
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
Hi, I was letting youtube autoplay and ended up on a couple high level chess videos and found it really interesting. I have never played chess before but I do have plenty of free time. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to spend 3-5 hours a day practicing. I want to get the most out of each day so any practice tips anyone has are greatly appriciated!