My own chess training system

Hi guys,

My goal in chess is to become GM and I've realized that without serious and, of course, hard work there will be no progress. And right now I have no coach so I created some kind of a training system which showed some progress. 

First I started with a tactical training. I did 2500+ tactics in a month and got to 1900 tactics (I did after I got to 1900, but rating is going up and down). Since I improved my tactical awareness I had to work on the chess theory. 

This is a schedule for a week:

Monday:

-50 tactics

-Opening repertoire

I warm up my day with 50 tactics and then I study certain opening for about 4 hours. I use Lars Schandorff's - Playing 1.d4 the Queen's Gambit. And I recommend that book for everyone who wants to study the QG.

Tuesday:

-50 tactics

-Strategy

Same thing with 50 tactics and for Strategy I use different books:
Aron Nimzowitsch- My System, Chess Praxis (Very instructive, introducing the term of Prophylaxis)

Alexander Koblencs (Tal's trainer)- Chess Knowledge (This book does not have an English translation but it's very very instructive. There are chapters about center, bishop pair, pawns, defense, attack etc.

Tigran Petrosian- Python Strategy (Basically going through his life)

Wednesday:

-50 tactics

-Endgames

Silman's Complete Endgame Course- I recommend this book for everyone under 2000. When I get above 2000 then I'll get Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual.

Thursday:

-50 tactics

-Endgames

Friday:

-50 tactics

-Strategy

Saturday:

-50 tactics

-Additional training (Idk how to name it)

With this "Additional training" I get to pick one of the day (Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur or Fri) and do it again.

Sunday:
-400 tactics

My Mission of the Week is to spend 28h on chess.

Mission of the Month is 120h.

I have some sort of Check-ins - call it whatever u want. 
So if I dont do it then I have to do 2x harder next week.

Thanks and please rate it!

Sounds like it makes a lot more sense than most of the other plans recommended around here. Seems to be a very practical and efficient approach. Making sure your tactics are always up to par and then just rotating openings, mid game, and end game. If I was going to work at it, this is what I would do.

Is it a typo for Sunday (400 tactics)?

What are you using for tactics? I recommend "Combinatative Motifs" by M.Blokh. 

Very ambitious training program and big kudos if you manage to stick to it. If I were to offer some advice it would be to for the strategy part use the book Mastering Chess Strategy by Johan Hellsten and his companion book Mastering Endgame Strategy (he also has a book on the opening phase called, you guessed it, Mastering Opening Strategy). 

Mastering Chess Strategy is a more modern take on strategy than some of those you mentioned and cover most areas of strategy. The best thing about the book is that is has lots of exercises and that is key. You want to do ACTIVE learning. You want to apply the new knowledge as soon as possible and having companion exercises will make that part easy.

Mastering Endgame Strategy focuses on practical endgame play (as opposed to theoretical endgames), which is really what you want to focus on at this stage. Later you will need to focus on theoretical endgames and for that I think Dvoretsky's book is very good. Silman's book may be good and perhaps even comparable to Hellsten's. But the big advantage of Hellsten's book is that has lots of exercises. What are the reasons you went with Silman's book?

Lastly, I don't see any time allocated for actual playing in your schedule. Is that done outside of the schedule?

But when do you play OTB games ?

You know that GM is an OTB title, right ?

GM?? You will get nowhere 

Thanks everyone for your replies. 

For tactics I actually use Chesstempo.com.

Thanks for book recommendation, I'll definitely check it out. You're right about active training, I want to insert new knowledge ASAP in my own games. Well, from 2pm-6pm I train and after that I play and relax.

Hah, yes I do know what is a GM,  and yes I do play OTB games, in fact I have an FIDE rating, it's 1670 (I know it's terrible). I want to reach 1800 by the end of the year. 
I got 80 points in Bosnia 2016 which I find as a success.

What can I say, I'm 14yo and I have high ambitions.

Yeah well I have GM in my username because of two reasons: first is that I'm aiming that level and second.... is well to scare ppl in blitz,  but it's not working.

I do not play a lot online because idk why, and I have a chessclub so I go there almost every day. 

You might throw in some blindfold training for visualization.  You can set up the Tarrasch GUI to do this -- just remember to switch to the "Tarrasch Toy" engine instead of Stockfish!

You might also consider correspondence chess, to allow you to deeply analyze positions.

I think you should aim at a minimum of 100 long OTB games/year, but twice or three times that # is probably better to have some chance to get a shot at a title.

Good luck !

I have couple of upcoming tournaments so I'm preparing. At the beginning of the year my rating was 1592, so that's more then 100 points. Thank you very much.

Right now I have trouble breaking 1900 and going 2000+ so I'm working on that.

Well I'm already dedicating my time, so I might as well try to complete that goal. Yes I know that hard work and specific talent are needed, but I think I can do it. I've been playing chess for 2.5 years and training for like 1-1 and a half. 119 months to go !

Oh.... Dear... ...  Well, Props to the OP for coming up with his own study regime that works.  Just to let you know when you self impose yourself with these tasks you tend to do more than really necessary without guidance.  At least that is what happened to me.  You just don't have the insight to put it all on yourself to come up with the daily regime that is most beneficial for your level.  Most people that where self taught where actually some kind of genius and did it because of that along with a lot of hard work, but without the genius part of the equation, it is plenty hard to become a GM without guidance.  My music teacher told me that the first thing a musician needs to do, regardless of their level, is find a mentor.  You may get better on your own but I believe you are being penny wise and pound foolish.

I want to thank Robert and Yuri for alerting me to the fact that trolls do indeed exist in chess forums just in the nick of time

Also, in the end, we can only do what we can afford to do.  If you want to get better at chess, and cannot afford a coach, then I guess all you can do is do your own daily regime that is apparently working for you.  It just may be a bit much, as some others including myself are thinking.  You should strive to play good people.  Get to around 2000, and play other 2000's, and try to befriend them.  That could be another route that might take you to victory.  Good luck to you!  If you are going to tournaments you should try and meet and play other strong players there on the side in your spare time.  You might gain some valuable insight, as I have.  Also just observing their games.  I noticed people get nervous when you watch their game though, so be wary .  Next time I will just glance at them and try and picture it in my head in another part of the room.  I think I almost costed someone his game   Anyway good luck again.  More and more each day I realize just how much work is put into the pursuit of becoming a GM at chess.

Good but you have to play some games to practice the things you have learned.

The sad part is that sometimes even with that training you will get nowhere. My dream was to become a GM and I did it, I just bought a title on the FIDE Online Black Market Shop

Depends on your talent where will you get. Nice one, lol.