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MasterUltra

Hello, I have two  or sometimes three hours per day to dedicate to chess. How should I divide the time between game and study?  one hour of  chess games and one hour of study? what is your recommendation? 

 

 

notmtwain
MasterUltra wrote:

Hello, I have two  or sometimes three hours per day to dedicate to chess. How should I divide the time between game and study?  one hour of  chess games and one hour of study? what is your recommendation? 

 

 

There is no magic number. Are you doing any studying now?

It looks like you are playing five or more games of 10 minute blitz and 15 10 games per day. How long do you spend analyzing your losses?

MasterUltra

I am studying tactics mainly, havent studied any opening deeply.  I dont spend much analyzing games, I dont have any software to do so, but mostly I see that I do lots of blunders sad.png

notmtwain

Yes, I see that you dropped your queen in two of your last three losses. In both cases, the calculation necessary to avoid the mistakes is something that you can probably understand pretty easily in retrospect.

You don't need any special software to analyze. You just need to invest the time.

tiredofjapan

Using software to analyze is ok.  the more important thing is to go through and think about each move- did it accomplish what you wanted to, or did it allow your opponent to do something you didn't want?  Was there a better move?  I'm no master, and I don't spend enough time analyzing my games, but I find that letting the computer analyze my game and looking at the proposed lines does much less for me than pushing my own pen through the problem. 

 

Also, try playing more long time control games.  Maybe replace a few days of your blitz games with one longer game.  Keep a few daily chess games going.  In bodily exercise, I find I make better gains when I start off going slow, but really focusing on every moment of my motions being perfect.  Very different from my early military training sessions, in which the instructor would have us pounding pushups out as fast as we could- no real strength, just getting used to moving fast.  I suspect mental training pursuits would be the same.  Build the right pathways before you use them fast.

ChumpDavis123

The famous fruit fly and I think there's something wrong with these programs that you were running on your a large computer and so I was thinking maybe you could download the gigabytes of the fly into your computer using the RAM and then try to use that program and see if you can alter the genetic composition defining what DNA formulates the particular species.

MasterUltra
notmtwain wrote:

Yes, I see that you dropped your queen in two of your last three losses. In both cases, the calculation necessary to avoid the mistakes is something that you can probably understand pretty easily in retrospect.

You don't need any special software to analyze. You just need to invest the time."

 

thanks a lot!

 

MasterUltra
tiredofjapan wrote:

Using software to analyze is ok.  the more important thing is to go through and think about each move- did it accomplish what you wanted to, or did it allow your opponent to do something you didn't want?  Was there a better move?  I'm no master, and I don't spend enough time analyzing my games, but I find that letting the computer analyze my game and looking at the proposed lines does much less for me than pushing my own pen through the problem. 

 

Also, try playing more long time control games.  Maybe replace a few days of your blitz games with one longer game.  Keep a few daily chess games going.  In bodily exercise, I find I make better gains when I start off going slow, but really focusing on every moment of my motions being perfect.  Very different from my early military training sessions, in which the instructor would have us pounding pushups out as fast as we could- no real strength, just getting used to moving fast.  I suspect mental training pursuits would be the same.  Build the right pathways before you use them fast.

 

 

Good insight, I will follow this recommendation as well.