Yes, especially going over annotated games. Also, set aside a couple of games for noting what principles certain moves follow, and another for studies where you turn off the analysis and engine panes and just type your thoughts and analysis in a Word document from the perspective of whom you're studying.
Game Analysis plan involving the games of the World champions?
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Hello everyone!
I realize this has probably been asked before, but I wanted to know if it would be effective in my chess development if I studied the games of the world champions in chronologicalorder, beginning with (unofficial) world champion Paul Morphy. A few noted chess grandmasters, including Vladimir Kramnik, have said that it is important to understand chess history and how the ga me evolved. I also see logical justification for this: In Morphy's day, the top class players made worse errors than somebody of, say, Capablanca's day or Fischer's day because chess evolved from 1858 to 1930 or 1972. Naturally, studying the games of a player like Morphy would let me see how to punish errors I might meet in my own play more quickly than say studying Capablanca (though, I've already studied about 150 of Capablanca's games. He's my favorite!! :)) . Anyways, I wanted to know if it would be a good idea.
Thanks,
chessman1504