Should I make this revision to my study plan?

Here is my situation: I am fine with my study plan other than one thing: on Mondays and Tuesdays I study openings Wednesdays and Thursdays middlegames and Fridays and Saturdays Endgames, Sunday is usually misc. However this constant jumping around topics actually makes me upset because I will just be getting to a good part in learning openings and then woops got to move onto middlegames, so my suggestion is instead of 2-day switches 1 week switches for example week 1 of the month openings 2nd week middlegame strategies and ideas, and week 3 Endgames and week 4 misc., which would be not bad because I could work on maybe things outside of the 3 phases of a chess game or read a book not specifically on the 3 stages of a chess game anyways I think this sounds a lot better I would like to know what you all think in the end I see it as what works for me and this sounds better than changing every 2 days. feedback appreciated

Try it. If you like it, great. If not, you can switch back or try something else.

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"on Mondays and Tuesdays I study openings" ++ A waste of time & effort

"Wednesdays and Thursdays middlegames" ++ You cannot study middle games, you have to play and analyse your losses.

"Fridays and Saturdays Endgames" ++ Good

"this constant jumping around topics" ++ Well study annotated grandmaster games: they have an opening, a middle game and an endgame.

"week 1 of the month openings" ++ A wasted week.

"2nd week middlegame strategies" ++ You cannot study that.

"week 3 Endgames" ++ OK

How is learning opening a waste of time what do you suggest I do instead, also for middlegame strategies there are books on the middlegame phase of a chess game can I not read those and improve my middlegame?

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"How is learning opening a waste of time" ++ The most you can get out of an opening in the ideal case is an advantage of +1 pawn. It is meaningless if you blunder some piece later, if you run into some tactic later or if you lack the endgame technique to convert +1 pawn to a win.

"what do you suggest I do instead"
++ Endgame study, study of annotated grandmaster games, analysis of lost games.

"for middlegame strategies there are books on the middlegame phase of a chess game can I not read those and improve my middlegame?"
++ There are good books, and they help, but they are no substitute for play and analysis.
The problem is not to study the books, but to apply the wisdom in a real game.

Not going to lie I don't know about this, I have one opening for white the Ruy Lopez I know it pretty well and usually end up with a solid position but I have no openings for black and then I end up just doing random things I feel like work even though I have no direction of what I am doing at all and even after analyzing my games nothing changes with this but I feel like knowing at least a few openings can be useful because then I would have a sense of what I am doing, and a lot of people studying openings do you say they are wasting there time?

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"I have one opening for white the Ruy Lopez" ++ Good

"I know it pretty well" ++ Probably not.

"I have no openings for black"
++ Black is more important than white. Simplest and best is 1 e4 e5 and 1 d4 d5.

"I end up just doing random things"
++ Do not play random moves. Think and apply logic. develop your pieces towards the center.

"knowing at least a few openings can be useful because then I would have a sense of what I am doing"
++ On the contrary. When you think about the opening phase yourself, you have the sense of what you are doing. If you reel off some memorized moves, then you end up with a position you do not understand.

"a lot of people studying openings do you say they are wasting there time?"
++ Yes. It costs time & effort and does not help.
What they study does not happen and when it happens they have forgotten.

opening studies is good as long as it is in moderation. your goal for openigns should be to get a good position and know it well. You dont have to know every single 20 move line that GMs play. but if you are just studying the openings to get into a comfortable position in 10 or so moves it can be quite an effective tool.

as for your study plan, it seems like it lacks consistency since there will be a long period of studying topics. for example you may spend a week on middlegames but you will forget the majority of it over the 2 or 3 weeks of studying something else.

Its a bit hard to say what you should do because it ultimately comes down to how much time you have in a day, but i recommend doing multiples studies each day for example:

day 1: go through a game in your middlegame books, look at some endgames, play/analyze games.

day 2: go through a game in your middlegame books, do some tactics, play/analyze games

day 3: go through a game in your middlegame books, openigns studies, play/analyze games

you'll see how studying middlegame and playing games are the most often because they are the most important, while the others are studied consistently, but not as often. Of course this type of studying really only works if you have multiples hours a day, if you only have 1 hour a day it might be better to keep what you are doing but do 1 day for each for example:

day 1: middlegame studies

day 2: tactics

day 3: openigns

day 4: endgames

day 5: middlegame

day 6: tactics

day 7: misc

and play at least 1 game each day.

hopefully you found this helpful let me know if you have any questions.

I have found that the majority of beginners to intermediate chess players, myself included waste a lot of time studying about chess instead of studying how to play chess.

Explain

i think the meaning is that you should focus on playing games and analyzing games instead of studying a topic like endgames or openings

not exactly.

what I mean is there are 3 stages to the game and two transitory periods that connect them.

The opening, the middle game, and the endgame. we spend a lot of time learning about them, with out learning them.

this is too broad of a subject to discuss in its entirety. so I will hit the high points.

1) the opening: A beginner will ask the wrong questions like " What is the best opening?" or " Which is better to memorize a move order or to understand it?"

the right question is " WHICH is the best openings for me?" and what is the point in understanding a move if you can't remember to play it? or what is the point of playing a memorized move if you don't know why?

a) which opening is for me? the one you like. the one that you have the most confidence in to get a good game regardless of whether you win or lose.

b) rapid, fluid, harmonious piece development. this is even more important for black cause he started the game a move behind. a good rule of thumb is to have at least one rook active by move ten. notice that I did not say follow 20 moves of known theory not taking into account what your opponents moves are. it takes both players to play theory.

c) a solid and protected pawn structure that works with your pieces.

2) the middle game: we will tell a beginner that he needs to study master games. 👍great, but until you reach a certain level of chess understanding, you will not know what they are doing. you are just pushing wood.

a) after you have fully developed, the opening ends. you are now in the first transitory period. here is where you

stop and come up with a plan. no plan, no move. long term plan and a short term plan. it can be aggressive, it can be passive, it can be tactical, or positional. here is where the answers to questions like which squares do I need to control? which files do I want my rooks on? where is the best place to station my queen? do I keep the pawn tension in the center or do I release it?

b) board vision: this means looking for tactics both for and against you. this means looking for targets in your opponents position to exploit

c) piece exchanges: will it help or hurt my position to exchange a single piece or a number of pieces.

as a number of pieces start to come off the board we enter the second transitory period towards the end game. we stop again and we formulate a plan. we do a pawn count. we see how advanced they are. we see if we can steer things in to a favorable end game for us. we make a decision.

3) the end game

a) calculation

b) move sequence

c) King involvement both yours and your opponent

d) which pawn(s) will queen both his and mine?

e) who controls the queening square?

and through out this entire experience we watch for and against checkmate.

this is what I mean. we spend a lot of time learning about chess with out learning how to play chess.

It is good to chunk your study (not just in chess) and good to take breaks. You have the chunks, where are the breaks? You're also seemingly missing a dedicated time slot where you analyze your games. Which should be a cursory analysis at least after each game and some sort of batch analysis later. The batch analysis will reveal recurring themes and weaknesses in your play. i.e. do you blunder knight forks often. These things that happen often in your games will obviously be the most important topic of study. For example, if you do constantly lose to knight forks then you should go into the puzzle trainer and filter by knight forks and solve until you ingrain the pattern into your brain.

These are just some general things that are relevant to study in a broad sense, applied to chess specifically.

I do analyze my games in this post I mainly just put in the thing I didn't like about my study plan but yes I play puzzles, and analyze my games

I 100% agree, I didn't want to be that person but the person telling me that was 2,000 but I really disagree with him which I am definitely not in the position to disagree with anyone because I am only 1,000 elo, but like I hear from grandmasters that openings are important because your opening stems into your middlegame which is quite important, and also that things like openings can help you develop your skills I didn't know anything about positional aspect of chess until I learned about some openings and where things are good and should be