Here is my idea which I ask to be peer reviewed in the best academic traditions!
Tactics - 10 minutes (problem solving)
Visualisation - 10 minutes ( blindfold exercises)
Strategy and evaluation - 20 minutes (the 20 minute exercise)
*Endgame - 20 minutes (theory and practical endgame)
* this can be alternated with other areas, like openings, or game analysis or playing over master games etc etc
Do any of you guys follow a kind of study routine? Great power moves in cycles right?
I wonder how beneficial it is. It seems to me it must be like going to the gym, you do some cardio, some upper body training, some lower body training then work on your leg muscles etc I vaguely remember reading that Lasker advocated this approach although I forget how he proportioned the study time. If anyone has any suggestions on a kind of structured approach and what time one should spend on these areas please let it be known.
from what i can discern such an approach must be above all practical after all who of us can go to the gym and workout for more than a couple of hours. Indeed one is accustomed to working for a short time on a particular aspect and then the next another aspect and the next another.