Anywhere from two to four hours depending. Right now I'm focused on calculation, I just need 30 more pages of Dvoretsky's School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play and then I'll move onto Emms' Survival Guide to Rook Endings.
I wake up pretty early to run.
I always try to improve myself when I have the time to spend. I always try to get at least seven hours or more of sleep and eat the right foods and get a good amount of exercise. In chess I try to improve on my weaknesses which I think right now is the middlegame.
You both sound like you're doing great. Glad to hear it! Im averaging about 3 hours 20 minutes per day in time spent improving myself this month. I can do better than this, but it's much better than what I'd been doing before I started keeping track and having a plan.
"how much time do you typically spend in a month training to improve yourself in your free time?"
Depends of the day and the month. Sometimes 5h/day but more often close to 1h/day. Even 0h for some days.
"If the answers are not much, and no, do you regret not acheiving what you are capable of?"
Some months ago my plan was to work 6 or 8 hours a day, but for the last few weeks (no matter the reason) I worked only 1 or 2 hours a day (average time), and sometimes I even didn't work at all during some days. Did I regret something ? Absolutely not. The very little work I've done for the last 3 months was already very helpful (I had see and verify this by playing stronger opponents, I strongly improve my level of play in the particular field I worked, I think I'm very close to get a master level in it which is 300 or 400 points above my general level). If hard work was easy, it would be no "hard" work anymore, and what we could get from this hard work would no longer be a rare thing.
How can one overcome the weakness of instantly loosing concentration, i mean in a very strong position, i suddenly lost my concentration and make a blunder move and lost the advantage.
sometimes I spend the whole day doing all chess stuff
How can one overcome the weakness of instantly loosing concentration, i mean in a very strong position, i suddenly lost my concentration and make a blunder move and lost the advantage.
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon.
Or the famous : "It is not enough to be a good player (or to have a very strong position); you must also play well." Tartakower.
If you need help, please contact our Help and Support team.
Lately I've been thinking about ways someone can reach their full potential. One would need sleep 7+ hours, good nutrition, regular exercise, and lots of fluids. This would provide the energy, and the maximization of one's mind and body needed to start trying to get to one's full potential. Actually acheiving that potential, would of course primarily focus around training one's self as long and usefully as possible in one's own free time, and getting the most out of the time one is at school or work or both, aka nonfree time. What subject one trains in, the school one goes to, or the place one works doesn't matter, all that matters is how one can improve the most at whatever they want to do.
I've been testing this with myself this month and keeping a record of how many total hours I've put into improving myself. I am of course getting constant sleep, eating healthy, and getting regular exercise, so as to make the time I spend training as efficient as possible. So far I can tell I'm operating at a much higher level than other semesters in my classes, and the effect is spilling over into my work as well and benefiting me there.
So the question is, how much time do you typically spend in a month training to improve yourself in your free time? Do you get the sleep, nutrition, and exercise needed to maximize your time? If the answers are not much, and no, do you regret not acheiving what you are capable of?
Of course all of this applies to chess as well.