How do you train?

20 minutes (sometimes 30) on tactics and calculation.

Then study openings, currently the Berlin Endgame, that would say I learn endgame and middlegame themes, and a little theory.

Then endgames, because it's so fun with the right training method

Then middlegames. I take Bobby Fisher 60 games collection and take a random game, play to move 15, and try to create a plan. Writing down my  variations and ideas, I check with a computer. If it's the wrong plan, I learn the right plan, and try to learn why it's the wrong plan.

Remember to pause, and play some blitz. Chess should be fun, not a boring lifestyle.

That's what I was going to say. No, really!

It amazes me how people always quote these old sayings, like they're written in stone, just because somebody famous person coined it.

I kick my opponent under the table and make snorting noises when they get into time trouble !

There are countless platitudes, but I think that quote is true. He also said, "People often don't recognize opportunity because it comes wearing overalls and looks like work."

There a lot of people who spend their lives busting their butts, just making other people rich. I think it's more like 25% inspiration 75% sweat.

The way I've heard it Edison had a habit of taking ideas that were dreamed up by his staff and claiming them as his own ( so perhaps 2% inspiration 48% perspiration and 50% was " borrowing " ideas that other people should have gotten credit for ? ).

Things like that happen.

Edison was a prick to his employees. It's just that, through personal experience, I find that those two quotes ring true. No, I'm not saying I'm a genius.

Going back to the OP, I've been spending a lot of time on tactics training, both here (when it's not freezing on me) and on Chess Tactics Server. I find the latter to have more basic problems (at least at my level) that I can use to sharpen my eye. On the TT on chess.com, my results fluctuate much more widely. I usually do a minimum of 25 tactics a day.

I also use Chess Mentor quite a bit, and I'm getting a lot out of watching the annotated videos of great games.

For play, I'm currently playing 9 online games at a time. When I finish one, I immediately sign up for another. At the moment I'm not playing a lot of live chess because I prefer slower time controls and have to make sure I've got a block of time carved out to play when I won't get interrupted.

One thing I'm avoiding like the plague is blitz chess and faster. It just demoralizes me, drags down my rating, and teaches me nothing.

At least be serious like the rest of us here.  I mean, have you benched 1200 Lbs today?

Chessimo :0)

Conquistidor, in fact I HAVE benched 1200 pounds, AND I've run a marathon. But I spread each of those achievements out over the course of a week. 

Seriously whats up with these answers 

Not the answers you wanted? Oh well.

I like to go into a large commercial freezer with a lot of raw beef hanging on meat hooks; and play  chess there..."Gonna fly now!"...just thinking kinda outloud here....

I guess it open to interpretation i read don't do that 2 weeks before a tournament ive done some testing and i think i preform better when i havent

It depends on my tournament schedule haha

"Logical Chess Move by Move" is pretty self-explanatory: he annotates or comments on every move, making it more of a beginners book than "The Most Instructive Games Ever Played"

look for them used at amazon i don't think you could go wrong with either one (or both)

So, is Edison wrong? Not for people like me he isn't. There's a reason why people keep on quoting Edison, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Yogi Berra(!) et al and why they aren't quoting (well you can fill in the blank) BUT on the other hand, maybe you know something that all these old-fashioned, out-dated too often-quoted hacks overlooked?