Looks pretty good. Here is mine. It has helped me to 1500 Elo OTB so far.
http://becomingachessmaster.com/study-plan/
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Excellent. I am going to especially study your article on how to analyze my own games, since right now I have no idea how to do this without a computer!
There are a lot of routes to take to get better, and yours seems fine. I'd say blitz isn't very helpful for improving your chess unless you go over your games afterwards. Longer time control games are also something that should be evaluated afterwards. If you want to do more than 25 tactics problems a day, chesstempo.com is a site that can do that for free. This is an old thread that includes several study plans you may want to use for reference and advice on the best ways to get better: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/whats-the-fastest-way-to-get-better
Good luck in your improvements!
Thanks!
May I suggest Silman's companion book, "Reassess Your Chess Workbook".
Some of you guys nmakes this a chore amd more work than actual work-what happen to playing for fun?
I just started playing in April. (I've always known how to play, and played a lot in high school, but 15 years later I am now getting serious). I want to be confident enough to play in tournaments by the end of the year, hopefully by October.
How am I preparing? As follows:
STRATEGY: Continue studying Silman's book, HOW TO REASSESS YOUR CHESS. Because I work full time, I try to only tackle a couple pages a day of this book.
TACTICS: 25 Chess.com tractics trainer problems a day.
STRATEGY AND TACTICS MASTERY: I have Ray Cheng's book of 600 chess problems. I plan to do all 600 problems in June. Then I will do them again July 1-15, and again July 16-30, and again each of the first three weeks of August. During the last week of August, I will do all 600 problems each day. In October I plan to work my way through John Nunn's CHESS PUZZLE BOOK (which, for the moment, I find too difficult---even the problems he calls easy are for me difficult).
EXPERIENCE: I play two blitz games each morning before work, and two more during my lunch break. On Sundays (when I am relaxed and have more time) I play a 30 minute round online. Sometimes, on Saturdays, I play 15 minute rounds. I try to go back and analyze the games later in the week (albeit with the help of Tarrach chess software) to see what I missed.
EVENING TRAINING. After work, I study as follows:
Mondays: Endgame theory.
Tuesdays: Review what I am covering in Silman's book.
Wednesdays: Openings, and more review of Silman's book.
Thursdays: Study famous master's games, trying to commit as many of them as possible to memory.
Fridays: Misc., depending on enegry and review of past week's mistakes.
Saturdays: Usually devoted to catching up with Chess Life magazine, reviewing youtube videos on my weakest openings.
Sundays: Review a game from Charnev's LOGICAL CHESS MOVE BY MOVE.
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What study plans have other people used to start preparing to be tournament ready? If I can play in local tournaments in November and December, by preparing and practicing only after work, and get a rating above 1500, I'll be happy.
Thoughts?